Army Public Schools & Colleges System
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Army Public Schools & Colleges System APSACS | |
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School type | Army School; semi-private, preparatory |
Motto | "I shall rise and shine!" |
Opened | 1975 |
School board | FBISE, CIE and Edexcel. |
Teaching staff | 18,462 |
Years offered | 3-4 to 18-19 |
Gender | Mixed with separate sections for males and females in most schools. |
Number of students | 301,855 |
Average class size | 30 |
Education system | SSC, HSSC and GCE |
Classes offered | O and AS/A level, Matriculation, Intermediate |
Language | English-medium education |
Schedule | About 6 hours (7.30 am to 1.30 pm) in summer and (8.00 am to 2.00 pm) in winter |
Houses | Faith Unity Discipline Tolerance |
Alumni | Apsacian |
Directors APSACS | 1.Brigadier (R) Ramzan [Director] 2. Brigadier. (R) Tahir Ali Syed [Regional Director X Corps] |
Branches | 230. |
Website | apsacssectt |
Army Public Schools & Colleges System (APSACS) is a school system operated by the Pakistani Army with over 230 branches. APSAC System operates in 18 regions across Pakistan, with supervision by 18 regional directors.[1] They are sub-divided into 18 regions.[2] APSACS Secretariat serves as central unifying body, which controls technical aspects of the system. It is one of the largest educational systems of Pakistan
History
Army Public School was founded by Pakistan Army to provide quality education to the children of Pakistan Army personnel.[3] The schools are well-equipped with labs, at par with any American suburban school.[3] The students can opt for O Levels examination system, a British qualification, or a local qualification.[3]
List of regions
- Joint Staff (JS) region: 1 school
- Rawalpindi I (QMG) region: 3 schools
- Rawalpindi II (E in C) region: 6 schools
- Rawalpindi III (X Corps) region: 40 (estimate) schools (largest region) | Regional Director is Brigadier (R) Tahir Ali Syed SI (Military)
- Mangla region: 5 schools
- Multan region: 7 schools
- Lahore region:15 schools
- Karachi region: 19 schools
- Peshawar region: 19 schools
- Quetta region:14 schools
- Gujranwala region: 15 schools
- Bahawalpur region: 10 schools
- Rawalpindi IV (AAD) region:13 schools
- Rawalpindi V (ISI) region: 6 schools
- Rawalpindi VI (GHQ) region: 7 schools
- Nowshera/Attock region: 7 schools
- Abbottabad region: 3 schools
- Cherat region: 6 schools
Faculty
- Umera Ahmed - a former teacher at Army Public College, Sialkot's Cambridge wing, known for her critically acclaimed works, including Pir-e-Kamil, Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan, Shehr-e-Zaat, Zindagi Gulzar Hai
- Tahira Qazi - Principal of APS&C for Boys Peshawar from 2006 to 2014, and associated with APSACS since 1994, she was killed along with 140+ others by the Taliban while rescuing her school children, in the Peshawar School Attack, in 2014 on 16 December.[4][5]
- Saeed Rashid PP - writer, teacher and historian, was the Principal of Army Public School Jhelum and Mangla Cantt from 1990 to 1994.
See also
- 2014 Peshawar school attack
- Army Burn Hall College
- Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education
References
- ^ "APSACS Locations across Pakistan". www.apsacssectt.edu.pk. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ "APSACS Organization". www.apsacssectt.edu.pk. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ a b c "Pakistanis Question Perks of Power". Washington Post.
- ^ Tribune.com.pk (4 March 2015). "APS principal refused to leave school until the last child was rescued". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ Warner, Frank. "L. Macungie woman loses sister on Pakistan's 'darkest day'". mcall.com. Retrieved 27 June 2019.