The ambitious project of Pakistan International School (PIS) to add new educational stream, the O level, will start soon at a cost of over QR7m with the help of a local charity organisation.
“The project that aims to build an additional facility inside the campus of PIS has reached the design stage, a requirement to obtain the building permit,” PIS Principal Nargis Raza Otho (pictured) told The Peninsula.
Talking on the sidelines of a press conference at the headquarters of Jassim and Hamad bin Jassim Charitable Foundation recently, the Principal said that a number of other procedures required for building permit have been completed.
“We have applied for the building permit for the project and awaiting for the approval”, said Otho.
The new facility will increase the capacity of PIS significantly and help start new international curriculum. “The new building will accommodate about 700 new students and they will be offered world standard education — International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE),” said Otho.
Speaking on the fees structure of new education, the Principal said that PIS is a community school so the fees will be low compared to the other Pakistani schools offering same educational level in Qatar.
In September last year, the Jassim and Hamad bin Jassim Charitable Foundation had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pakistani embassy to build additional classrooms and other necessary facilities at the cost of over QR7m at the campus of PIS.
Under the project, the new building will have 18 additional classrooms, offices for administrators and supervisors, in addition to laboratories, meeting halls, among others.
The Principal said: “Once we get the building permit, we give it to the foundation and they will float the tender to start the construction. We did not have O level education so the Ministry of Education and Higher Education asked us to construct new building for adding the new educational stream.”
Around 3,500 students (boys and girls), mostly Pakistanis, are enrolled at the PIS , established as a non-profit community school aimed at meeting the educational needs of Pakistani children in particular and other communities in general, and to deliver a high quality education at affordable fees.
