{"id":117890,"date":"2026-07-10T18:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=117890"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:36:38","slug":"punjab-board-to-establish-ai-labs-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/punjab-board-to-establish-ai-labs-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab board to establish AI labs in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Punjab\u2019s Curriculum and Textbook Board (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/new-tax-deduction-system-implemented-on-digital-payments-in-punjab\/\">PCTB<\/a>) has given approval for providing an artificial intelligence educational course from grades 1-5 for students. This was revealed by officials here.<\/p>\n<p>To provide this unique initiative, PCTB will set up an AI laboratory in the Primary Schools and introduce a regular curriculum as well.<\/p>\n<p>To make the course successful, the Province will appoint qualified Educationists on a contract basis because there are no specialized people at government schools who can teach AI courses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the initial phase, we are going to bring AI as a separate subject into the primary school curriculum of Punjab,\u201d he added, explaining that \u201cthe second phase would consist of setting up modern science and AI labs\u201d to provide hands-on experiences for pupils.<\/p>\n<p>He said that, should there have been any budgetary problems, Punjab had put together a plan B where basic AI classes would be incorporated into science books already published.<\/p>\n<p>The govt\u2019s proposal received the green light for publication at its last board meeting and will be fully rolled out from 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Punjab\u2019s Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) has given approval for providing an artificial intelligence educational course from grades 1-5 for students. This was revealed by officials here. To provide this unique initiative, PCTB will set up an AI laboratory in the Primary Schools and introduce a regular curriculum as well. To make the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":39729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,9],"tags":[43724],"class_list":["post-117890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-latest-news","tag-ai-labs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117891,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117890\/revisions\/117891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}