Tag: Education

FAISALABAD - The dissolution of Higher Education Commission (HEC) is regrettable, but Government College University (GCU), despite all odds, will do its level best to continue its programmes without putting the extra financial burden on its students, said Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Zakir Hussain. He was speaking to an annual dinner hosted by GCU College of Law.
"We, as an autonomous body, are looking forward to make adjustments to meet our expenses through our own resources,"

ISLAMABAD - Senators were dumbfounded on Wednesday after learning that the total financial assistance being given to loss-making public sector enterprises (PSEs) exceeded the country's total allocation for education sector in the Budget 2010-11.
The Upper House was told during the question hour that around Rs 50,182 million were being provided to Pakistan Railways as assistance to compensate the losses during the last five years. Raising objection to the financial assistance,

FAISALABAD - Production organisations like Interloop Limited Faisalabad are undoubtedly playing a vital role in the progress and prosperity of Pakistan, said Australia's High Commissioner Timothy George Spencer during his visit to Interloop Spinning & Hosiery Division, Khurrianwala, and Faisalabad along with his delegation.
He visited all the departments, including high tech spinning unit, effluent treatment plant, knitting, and dye house & finishing. Chief Operating Officer

ISLAMABAD - In a blatant violation of Establishment Division (ED) directives, federal education secretary appointed a blue-eyed professor as the deputy director general of the National Institute of Science and Technical Education (NISTE). Education Secretary Athar Tahir appointed a professor of MehranUniversity, Dr Rafiq Ahmed Jhatial, against the seat of deputy DG of BPS-20 on a deputation basis for two years at NISTE Islamabad. The influential secretary made the move at a time when

SIALKOT - At least 500 boys and girls in Khumbanwala village have no hope of getting education as two primary schools, the only facility for them, are in the occupation of some influential farmers.
The village has more than 200 houses with the number of children falling in the age group of 3-12, according to a village elder, is 500. The Government Girls Primary School Khumbaranwala was built in 1963 and situated some 15km from city. Three rooms of the school are being used as a

FAISALABAD - The Punjab government has placed women education on top priority and all resources are being utilised to provide ample facilities of higher education to female students near their homes," said Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan.
Speaking as the chief guest at the convocation of Government College for Women Karkhana Bazaar, he said, "It is due to the undeniable role of women in the national development and their valuable contribution could not be neglected. Our future

ISLAMABAD - Setting aside objections raised by the Registrar's Office, the Supreme Court on Monday accepted for regular hearing a petition against the devolution of the federal Ministry of Education to the provinces under the 18th Amendment and issued notices to the parties concerned. The petition was filed by senior educationists Chaudhry Sadiq Ali, former director of Model Colleges (Islamabad), and Dr Abdul Razzaque Memon, former principal of Dawood College of Engineering and

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI - The World Bank has approved an assistance of $400 million to help Pakistan improve access, quality, and relevance of education at all levels.
A news release issued by the bank said $300 million equivalent credit for the tertiary education support project would finance the government's tertiary education development programme, and would leverage an estimated investment of approximately $1.7 billion in additional resources from the government.
The Punjab

LAHORE - A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday seeking provision of free education to every citizen from five to 16 years of age under articles 9, 25 A and 37 of the constitution. Syed Feroz Shah filed the petition submitting that provision of free education was the right of every citizen, which had become a substantive part of the constitution after passage of the 18th Constitutional Amendment. Petitioner's counsel AK Dogar submitted that the federal and

LAHORE - APTECH Computer Education launched two centers to benefit the students from various programmes raising its network of centres from Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and Sialkot to the city on Sunday.
University of Central Punjab Vice Chancellor Syed Tahir Hijazi inaugurated the one campus at Johar Town near Allah Hoo Chock which officials says would be the Punjab regional head office while the second was opened at Old Muslim Town.
Addressing the inauguration ceremony

KARACHI - Pakistan is in dire need of an education revolution so that failures, shortcomings and sense of deprivation among people can be rooted out, said Sindh Industries and Commerce Minister Rauf Siddiqui on Friday while speaking as chief guest at the awards distribution ceremony of the University of Karachi (KU) Department of Mathematics' Information Technology Programme. "The education system of the country has been plagued by various shortcomings since the past 63 years, and

LAHORE - PINA and AFAQ, an organisation that produces children's encyclopedia and arranges teachers' training in Pakistan, jointly organized a seminar on the "Role of Curriculum in Nation Building" on Friday. The speakers of the seminar said that education was a strategic imperative for Pakistan and it should be the main focus of every government. They said the national curriculum is the backbone of the educational system and it should be developed under the supervision of the

KARACHI - Lower staff of the Sindh Education Department returned to the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Tuesday to protest the "failure of the provincial government to honour its commitment to regularise these workers" but their attempts to march towards the Chief Minister's (CM) House were crushed by law enforcers, who fired tear gas shells and baton-charged them.
The lower grade employees, under the auspices of the All-Sindh Education Department Lower Staff Association (ASEDLSA),

KARACHI - While the federal and provincial governments play ping-pong over jurisdictions, almost a year after the 18th Amendment, which denotes education between the ages of six and 16 a right rather than a privilege, received presidential assent, no notifications have been issued to cancel fees for government schools. "Why should we be made to pay if education is a right," Haleem, whose children, seven-year-old Saba and eight-year-old Wahab, attend a government school in Malir, said.

ISLAMABAD - The Centre for Peace and Development initiatives (CPDI) has urged the government to immediately undertake appropriate legislative, administrative and legal initiatives to ensure that Article 25-A of the Constitution is implemented in letter and spirit. The said article says the state is required to provide free and compulsory education to all children of five to 16 years of age. According to a statement issued by the CPDI, the government schools across the country,

FAISALABAD - Only education could bring revolution in political, economic and social fabrics of the society as no community could make progress without it, said Faisalabad Education Executive District Officer (EDO) Sohaib Imran while talking to Pakistan Today. People could put themselves on a proper pedestal in the comity of nations by focusing on the education sector, he said, adding that Punjab Government was determined to spread education in every house and hut of the province.