St Paul's Urdu High School
| St Paul's Urdu High School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
Iqbal Shaheed Road , Pakistan | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private high school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Catholicism |
| Established | c. 1960 |
| Oversight | Catholic Board of Education |
| Gender | Co-education |
| Age | 4 to 16 |
| Language | Urdu |
| Affiliations | Board of Secondary Education, Karachi |
St Paul's Urdu High School was a Pakistani Catholic school located on Iqbal Shaheed Road, Karachi, Sindh.[1] The medium of instruction was the Urdu language (i.e., the entire curriculum is taught in Urdu except for the subjects English and Sindhi language).
History[]
Fr Egidio Trindade was the first principal of the school.
Nationalization[]
Fifty-four Christian schools and colleges were nationalized in 1972 by then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. After nationalization, academic standards dropped, discipline hardly existed and the school's infrastructure deteriorated.
Denationalization[]
In 1987, a government directive gave provincial governments the freedom to denationalize schools.
The Sindh government denationalized twenty-one educational institutions on January 1, 1990, including Saint Paul's. In 1990, Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro of Karachi appealed to the archdiocese's Catholic community to help rebuild a school recently returned to the church after 17 years of government ownership.
The cardinal invited parishes to help raise Saint Paul's Urdu High School "like a phoenix from the ashes" of nationalization. The most difficult part of reconstruction, was "to re-instill Christian values of life and education in the pupils and staff", requiring the cooperation of "the whole diocese". [2]
Campus[]
St Paul's Urdu High School shares the campus with St Paul's English High School. In 2004 the school converted to English medium and now bears the name St Paul's English High School - Campus B.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Dawn 16 March 2004
- ^ [dead link] [1][permanent dead link]. Union of Catholic Asian News. February 13, 1990.
- ^ Ali, G. and Ali, M. St. Patrick’s: A journey of 175 years. Archdiocese of Karachi, 2018.
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