The Ministry of Education started a Rs4 billion scholarship program to help gifted students in need across Pakistan at the request of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The Ministry of Federal Education & Professional Training (MFEPT) has allotted Rs 8.5 billion for the improvement of facilities in both rural and urban areas to raise the bar for education standards in Islamabad. By June 30, 2025, the “Provision of Basic Educational Facilities in Educational Institutions of ICT” project is expected to be finished.
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The PSDP portfolio of the ministry is Rs8.5 billion in total of which Rs5.4 billion is allocated to basic education and Rs3.1 billion to technical education according to Secretary MFEPT Mohyudin Wani. Furthermore, the Pakistan Education Endowment Fund (PEEF) has been established with an allocation of Rs800 million for Balochistan out of a total of Rs4 billion for students from disadvantaged
The World Bank-funded “Actions to Strengthen Performance for Inclusive and Responsive Education Program(ASPIRE),” which runs from July 2020 to June 2025, is another project that the Ministry is carrying out. The goal of ASPIRE is to use federal-provincial performance-based grants to improve education in disadvantaged districts.
Important ASPIRE interventions in Islamabad include:
- IT Labs: To educate students for postsecondary education and professions in technology, 50 secondary boys’ schools in remote areas will establish IT labs.
- Smart Classrooms: Using technology and digital content, 140 smart classrooms will be built in public schools to improve multimodal learning.
- Launching the TeleSchool application and eTaleem portal will help teachers and students learn more.
- The TeleSchool Web Portal offers broadcast content libraries and over-the-top (OTT) channels with top-notch educational content.
- Learning Materials: Providing non-formal education centers with textbooks and resources from the Accelerated Learning Program particularly to encourage the education of girls. 528,647 books have been printed thus far.