Schoolchildren attend class at a school in Peshawar. AFP/File
PESHAWAR: The elementary and secondary education department has planned to begin second shift in government schools on Aug 1 to address overcrowded classrooms in the first shift.
Officials told
Dawn that the second shift would be launched in schools with 60 or more students in one classroom.
They said a class would have 40 students at maximum in line with the education policy.
The officials said overcrowded classes badly affected the learning of students.
They said the ‘double shift programme’ would also create space in schools for higher classes as the primary school buildings would be used to start middle schools in the evening and the middle schools’ for high schools and the high schools’ for higher secondary schools.
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