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Managing Director’s Message

Managing Director’s Message Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) is the largest public private partnership based program of free quality education in the Punjab. The fact that this foundation is providing gratis educational facilities to 2.5 million most-deserving students proves its success and efficacy. The good thing is that 45% of the beneficiaries are girls. In fact, PEF has emerged as a big boon for the impecunious strata. It is quite satisfying that this foundation has introduced a number of far-reaching reforms in the education sector to ensure that the deserving children could easily study and emerge as useful citizens of the society. We believe that education is the best ladder to develop our nation; as it strengthens the students to act as future-leaders. That's why, we have ensured that our students enjoy conducive atmosphere in the schools. This child-friendly schooling is very helpful in overall personality-development. In fact, Punjab Education Foundation has bene...

Chairman’s Message

Chairman’s Message It is a matter of great satisfaction that the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has emerged as a great facilitator for providing free quality education to the deserving students of disfranchised communities who cannot enjoy their basic right of education due to various socio-economic constraints. In fact, PEF has emerged as a most successful model in providing gratis education to the disadvantageous children. This fact has also been duly endorsed and commended by the international community which takes PEF as a role model initiative in the South Asian region. At the end of year 2016, PEF was facilitating more than 2.5 million deserving students through private sector by not only paying their entire school dues but also arranging free of cost textbooks for them. PEF Programs include Foundation Assisted School (FAS), New School Program (NSP) and Education Voucher Scheme (EVS) to open PEF partnering schools in all areas of the province where no school exists within ...

Teachers Health Fund named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality in 2016

Teachers Health Fund named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality in 2016 Teachers Health Fund’s commitment to gender equality has been acknowledged for a sixth consecutive year after being named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) in 2016. Teachers Health Fund previously received the EOCGE citation in 2014 and 2015 and was also recognised in 2011, 2012 and 2013 as an Employer of Choice for Women, when the Agency was known as the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) released their list of 2016 citation holders last week, with Teachers Health Fund one of only 106 organisations nationwide to receive recognition. The WGEA EOCGE citation is strategically aligned with the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 and recognises that gender equality is increasingly critical to an organisation’s success and is viewed as a baseline feature of well-managed and leading organisations. According to Brad Joyce, Chief Execu...