Tag: Higher
Summer vacations extended
Higher Education Department of the Government of Punjab announced on Saturday that summer vacations have been extended upto August 19. The decision will be...
France to funds 90 students’ higher education
France, through its embassy in Islamabad, will offer scholarships to 90 promising students of six Pakistani universities in the fields of social science, business...
Postings delayed
I would like to draw the attention of higher authorities through daily Pakistan Today, regarding the posting letters of newly selected lecturers by PPSC.
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Higher education vital for progress: PM
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday, highlighting importance of higher education, said it is imperative that maximum efforts should be made to improve...
HEC ranking of Pak varsities receives int’l recognition
The ranking exercise carried out by Higher Education Commission (HEC) has received worldwide attention and recognition and the web statistics of HEC website...
HEC reviews research journals and books
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) sub committee on Education reviews research journals published in the discipline of Education and recommended up-gradation of some of...
Government to help enhance higher education levels: Senate chairman
Senate Chairman Syed Nayyar Hussain Bokhari on Wednesday assured all-out support from the government for sustaining and enhancing the levels of higher education in...
Roman Polanski’s mastery takes ‘Carnage’ to higher level
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Baby Party,” two supposedly civilized couples are quickly reduced to violence after their kids get into a fight....
Higher Vitamin D intake linked to lower colon cancer risk
A new analysis of earlier research finds that both higher vitamin D intake and higher blood levels of the vitamin’s active form are linked...
Ensuring higher literacy
The importance of education for any economic framework is implied in itself; however each nation faces its own challenges in achieving a better quality...
Taller people have higher cancer risk
Tall people are more likely than shorter people to develop cancer and the risk of breast, ovarian, uterine, bowel, blood or skin cancer among...
Djokovic, Nadal take tennis to higher stratosphere
Novak Djokovic's demolition of Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon Men's singles final has raised the bar of men's tennis to stratospheric heights. As the...
Trade ties with China kick into higher gear
Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) Chief Executive Tariq Iqbal Puri is currently leading a large trade delegation to Kashgar, China to attend the...
Britain has higher rate of self-made rich than US
Britain’s billionaires are more likely than their US counterparts to have made their own money rather than inherited it, a study has found, challenging...
Dawn of a new tenure: Sindh’s ‘Higher Education Commission’
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.
‘17,000 students given scholarships for higher education’
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
College Chief Executive Qamarul Islam Raja, Principal Hafiz M Arshad, Professor Abdul Ghani, Professor Abdul Majeed Qazi, Professor
GCU Faisalabad to carry on higher education programmes, says VC
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,"
"We, as an autonomous body, are looking forward to make adjustments to meet our expenses through our own resources,"