Tag: Education

The Islamic International University (IIUI) Islamabad is all set to open 250 O-level schools across the country in next 5 years to impart modern...

Whatever Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah described about progress and achievements in the provincial education sector during the government’s three-year tenure on...

Under the cover of the presidential ordinance of 2009 on the reinstatement of sacked employees, the PPP government secretly and illegally appointed 242 persons...

The condition of around 2,600 of the 3,752 schools under the administrative control of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is in a deplorable...

The Sindh government has decided to delay the summer vacation of schools by a month, as well as to set up 50 new girls’...

The Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered the provincial government on Wednesday to issue appointment letters to the candidates, who had passed the written and...

Government College University Lahore Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ikramul Haq (Sitara-e-Imtiaz) has said that Pakistan needs well educated sportsmen to uplift its image abroad....

Two students of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) Abdul Haq Campus were injured on Tuesday after Pakistan Rangers directly...

KARACHI - A ceremony was organised at the tent village in Musharraf Colony, Keamari Town to distribute certificates to the children of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) for passing their non-formal education exams. During the ceremony, representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) urged the Sindh government to recognise the results of the non-formal education exams so that these children could be helped cover their educational loss caused by the last year's floods. A

HAFIZABAD - Punjab Task Force on Education Chairperson Saira Afzal Tarar has said that promotion of education is the top priority of the provincial government which is spending billions of rupees for this purpose. She was addressing a foundation stone-laying ceremony of development schemes in "model village" Rasoolpur Tarar declared by the Punjab chief minister during his visit to the district last year. She said 47.5 percent funds would be spent on the completion of various schemes

KARACHI - With Islamabad devolving responsibility of educating the people to provincial governments, Sindh is finalising arrangements to establish its Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan Today has learnt. With the devolution of five more ministries - including Education - to the provinces under the 18th Constitutional Amendment, all four provincial governments were supposed to chalk out a comprehensive strategy to ensure continuation in matters that were dealt with by the HEC.

KARACHI - The land mafia has not even spared the land allotted for the establishment of the Education City in Karachi and has encroached upon several acres there, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Tuesday The provincial chief executive was presiding over a meeting convened to review the progress on the project, an official handout stated.
"The previous government had initiated the Education City project and made initial allotments there but at present many people have

KARACHI - Fourteen districts of Sindh have been given extension in the Education Management Reforms (EMR) activities under the ongoing Sindh Education Reform Programme (SERP) as part of the EMR extension plan for the academic session 2011 and onwards. According to a notification number No SO (G-1)/E&LD/SERP-EMR (Extension /Roll Out) /2011, following the summary on the 'Policy Reforms in Education Leadership and Management in Sindh' approved by the competent authority - the Sindh chief

GUJRANWALA - Punjab Education Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has enhanced endowment fund from Rs 2 billion to Rs 6 billion and 17,000 male and female students have been awarded scholarships for higher education. He revealed this while addressing the convocation of National Science College Gujranwala.
College Chief Executive Qamarul Islam Raja, Principal Hafiz M Arshad, Professor Abdul Ghani, Professor Abdul Majeed Qazi, Professor

LAHORE - The March for Education campaign to end educational emergency is going on in full swing on the Internet, as thousands of users are signing the petition in order to urge the federal government to increase the education budget to four percent but Punjab Education Department sources claim that the department is working on its own roadmap.
The campaign started after the Pakistan Education Task Force's (PETF) report on the "Education Emergency Pakistan Booklet", which

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Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan has said that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been focusing on the promotion of quality education in the province.
"To achieve the desired results, various revolutionary policies have been introduced for the encouragement of outstanding students and provision of scholarships to them for higher studies in well reputed educational institutions under endowment fund," he said and added this was in addition

KARACHI - The medical colleges of the country need to incorporate research as an integral part of curriculum, Dr Zarrin S Siddiqui said on Tuesday.
Dr Siddiqui is an assistant professor in medical education, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences University of Western Australia.
In her lecture - 'Aligning research with training development of researchers' at the Dow Medical College campus of the Dow University of Health Sciences, she said research is a good