Overview
- The Higher Education Commission and Islamabad’s private‑school regulator, which issued orders Thursday, set a Monday to Thursday on‑campus week for universities and private schools.
- Punjab has directed all schools and colleges to close on Fridays, so classes now run Monday to Thursday after campuses reopened on Wednesday.
- Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa set 7:30 a.m. start times, declared Friday to Sunday the weekend, and lengthened each period to 50 minutes to make up for fewer school days.
- Private school associations say three weekly holidays will harm learning and plan High Court challenges, while KP teachers call the longer days unworkable for students and staff.
- Sindh resumed in‑person classes Wednesday with Saturdays off, a change that lands during exams and only weeks before the June 1 summer break.