LAHORE: The Punjab Higher Education Department recently announced winter vacations in colleges and universities and issued a notification in this regard.
According to the notification issued by the Higher Education Department, all the colleges and universities would observe winter holidays from December 23 to January 6. The classes will be resumed from January 7.
It stated that all universities under the jurisdiction of the Higher Education Department Punjab should follow the orders.
It also stated that all the concerned authorities should ensure 100 per cent vaccination of all teaching, non-teaching staff and students by the opening of institutions in the wake of an increasing number of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Earlier, the School Education Department (SED) had already announced the winter holidays on the same dates after the court’s orders.