The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has de-capped the upper ceiling of 482 private schools partnering under the 'foundation assisted school' programme. The de-capped schools fall in the categories of A+, A, B+ and B. These schools are situated in different districts of the province.
A PEF spokesman said the A+ category partner schools could admit 120 more students, A category schools could admit 90 further students while B+ category schools were allowed to give admission to 60 more students. The B category schools would be eligible to admit 30 additional students.
"However, these schools are allowed to admit only out of school or dropout students under this de-capping. The rationale of this policy is to open the doors of education to all such needy students who are out of schools due to poverty or lack of necessary resources. The PEF will provide monthly fee as well as textbooks for such students so that they could study free of cost in the partner schools," the spokesman added.
The 'foundation assisted school' is a leading initiative which is designed to give free education to the needy students through a network of partner schools in all the 36 districts of the province.