Tag: Educational

Federal education institutes and universities will reopen tomorrow (Monday) after having been closed for the Eid holidays. Bahria University, Air University, National University of...

Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Mujahid Kamran urged the leadership on Friday to allocate at least four percent of the total budget...

The provincial government intends to form an institution called the Sindh Education Academy that would include educational experts and retired teachers so that every...

The Sindh government has taken control of the educational institutions that were being run by the City District Government Karachi and placed them under...

After reviving commissionerate system and old police set up in the province, the PPP-led provincial government’s next step would be to transfer the administrative...

The Turkish government is playing a significant role in the field of education throughout the province, especially in the flood-affected areas, where it is...

KARACHI - Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had a passion for educational institutions, said professor of politics and history and University of Karachi Director of the Pakistan Study Centre, Dr Jaffer Ahmed Syed on Monday.
He was speaking at commemoration lecture at the Shaheed Zufikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST).
The lecture - Bhutto and His Struggle for Democracy - was organised to mark the 32nd death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

KARACHI - Educational institutions should be given a chance to contribute towards policy-making and the time has come to catch up with the global phenomena and give top priority to education, said a visiting scholar from the US, Dr Shaheer Ahmed Khan while speaking at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) on Sunday.
A senior Aligarhian, Dr Khan is associated with various organisations in the US to help students ambitious to get higher education in foreign

LAHORE - The government says Pakistan is in the midst of an educational emergency with disastrous human and economic consequences, the BBC said on Wednesday. A report prepared by a government commission mentions that half of all Pakistani school children cannot read a sentence. It says funding for schools has been cut from 2.5 percent of GDP in 2005 to just 1.5 percent - less than the national airline gets in subsidies.
It describes the education crisis as a self-inflicted

KARACHI - The Sindh government has refused to issue weapons licences to private schools in the metropolis. After the twin blasts at the Islamic University in Islamabad, the Sindh home secretary had agreed with management representatives of private schools that the institutions would be allowed to keep licensed arms for ensuring safety of students and staff and take strict security measures on their own.
However, the plan of the Sindh Home Department was recently dropped due to

LAHORE - In Punjab assembly's 22nd session Punjab Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman came under fire from opposition as well as government members on Monday for provincial government's new educational policy. Addressing the house the minister said that the government would review its policy relating to the rationalisation of the schools.
He said that the government had adopted rationalisation policy to run all small schools, which did not have proper staff or

KARACHI - A meeting of the National Educational Conference Sindh chapter was held on Monday at the Sindh Madressatul Islam (SMI) College under the chairmanship of its principal Dr Muhammad Ali Sheikh.
The meeting reviewed the preparatory arrangements for the conference.Addressing the meeting, Sheikh said the conference, scheduled to be held from January 21 to 28 in Islamabad, is being organised after many years. The SMI College also announced that its 12-member delegation would

KARACHI - A meeting of the National Educational Conference Sindh chapter was held on Monday at the Sindh Madressatul Islam (SMI) College under the chairmanship of its principal Dr Muhammad Ali Sheikh.
The meeting reviewed the preparatory arrangements for the province's eight participating federal educational institutions and took important decisions in this respect.

LAHORE - Low attendance in the educational institutions was witnessed in the educational institutes of the city owing to intense cold prevailing in the city for the past few days, whereas winter holidays have already ended in the schools, colleges and universities.
Students and parents requested the concerned authorities to extend the holidays or alter the timings in order to save students from chilly weather. Students traveling on public transport and motorbikes are facing the

ISLAMABAD - Owing to the assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, all the educational institutions in federal capital will remain closed on Wednesday (today).
Education Ministry's spokesman said that all schools and colleges being run under the federal directorate of education would remain closed today in protest against the killing of Salman Taseer.
All universities in the capital including International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Quaid-e-Azam University

LAHORE: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would not allow privatisation of educational institutions, Federal Law Minister Senator Dr Babar Awan said on Saturday. He made these remarks while talking to journalists after meeting members of teacher's Joint Action Committee (JAC).
Awan said that the board of governors (BoG) was a corrupt body and the law did not allow its establishment. He said that baton-charging had become the Punjab Police's custom and condemned police torture of

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians and members of provincial assemblies appear to have no regard for the law or the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), as some of them accused of possessing fake degrees are consistently avoiding to appear before the ECP special committee to defend their educational record.
Only three of the 15 MPs summoned appeared before the special committee on Monday and the ECP officials hearing the fake degree cases said that the committee would refer the cases