Tag: Education

Peace in Balochistan linked with promotion of education: moot

  QUETTA: Durable peace is not possible in Balochistan without promoting education in the province, observed educationalists, scholars and members of civil society during a...

Need to enroll bonded labourer’s children in schools: SPARC

HYDERABAD: Society of Protection of Rights of Child (SPARC) National Manager Kashif Bajeer said on Thursday that the children of freed bonded labourers must be...

Sindh CM warns public schools against collecting exam fee

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the provincial government would bear all the expenses relating to examinations of class...

Pakistan’s out-of-school children create educational challenges

ISLAMABAD: Private schools, charitable institutions, and religious seminaries in the country are stepping in to supplement government-run schools to help deal with the education...

Qatar to host three-day World Innovation Summit for Education

Over 2,000 participants from 100 countries to gather in Doha to re-imagine education at a time of disruption, economic uncertainty LAHORE: Some of the world’s...

Teachers training institutions being reformed: Jam Mehtab

  KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar has said that the Education Department is rehabilitating and strengthening teachers training institutions...

CM approves Rs6bln for facilities in 4,000 schools of Sindh

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the School Education Department to select at least 4,000 schools and provide them all the...

AIOU to provide free education to students of Balochistan, FATA

Students of Balochistan and Federally Administrated Tribal Area (FATA) will get free education from spring 2018 through the distance learning system of Allama Iqbal...

Naudero college receives five BS-17 lecturers

LARKANA: The Sindh government has finally posted five lecturers of BS-17 at Naudero Benazir Bhutto Government Girls College after media reports and a surprise...

Bilawal calls for education for everyone

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that he wants every kid, whether a boy or a girl, to be enrolled...

Sindh govt shows lethargy in eliminating ghost teachers, non-functional schools

KARACHI: The Sindh government has failed to utilise Rs6.954 billion grants to eliminate ghost teachers and non-functional schools within the required time frame due...

Minister shows concern over dropout of female students

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar has said that drop out of the students, especially of the female students,...

Youth, education to be at the forefront of future Pakistan-Germany cooperation:...

ISLAMABAD: Martin Kobler, the new German Ambassador to Pakistan, said that youth and education would be at the forefront of future Pakistan-Germany cooperation, as over...

Balochistan integral part of Pakistan, says COAS

“Pak Army committed to providing safe, secure, stable Pakistan" ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa said that Pakistan is incomplete without Balochistan while...

PU VC boasts of high academic standard despite low fee

LAHORE: Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Zaffar Mubeen Nasar, while talking to the media on Sunday, said that a record number of new...

President urges focus on research to achieve progress

  ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has urged the higher educational institutions to focus on applied research to achieve real progress and prosperity through education. The president...

AIOU’s contribution in educational uplift applauded

ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s Standing Committee on Education and Professional Training Chairperson Senator Rahila Magsi appreciated the initiatives of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) for...