August 2015

Education reforms: A day dream

Education reforms

According to a report, 25 Million Broken Promises: The crisis of Pakistans out-of-school children, shared at the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) in October 2014, around 25 million children between five and 16 years of age were out of school and almost 85 percent dropped out before reaching the higher secondary level. Around 13.7 million - ie 55 percent - were girls and 11.4 million or 45 percent of the out-of-schoolchildren were boys.

Kashan attractions

The name of Kashan comes from Kasian - the original inhabitants of the city, whose remains are found at Tepe Sialk (Sialk Hill) dating back 9,000 years. Between the 12th and the 14th centuries CE, Kashan was an important center for the production of high-quality potteries and tiles