Tag: Literacy

Punjab Education Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said 2.5 million boy and girl students are getting computer education every year under the chief minister’s IT...

Anti literacy militants blew up a government school with explosives here in the wee hours of Friday. According to details, unknown miscreants had planted two...

Yaseen Anwar, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan has said the Nationwide Financial Literacy programme (NFLP) will work towards improving financial inclusion and also serve...

The overall state of literacy in Pakistan leaves a lot to be desired. The general masses, especially the underprivileged segments in both urban and...

Managing Director Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) Mr Aftab Ahmad Chaudhry initiated the first step towards national financial literacy awareness programme for youth. As part...

On the competence of the electorate If an elected person or group of persons proves disappointing one can only blame oneself, as with marriage to...

Various NGOs and other education related departments observed the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)’s Literacy Day on Thursday. September 8 was proclaimed...

In order to mark the International Literacy Day, National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) in collaboration with UNESCO and some NGOs working in education...

Heart failure patients with a low degree of health literacy have an increased risk of death, according to a new study.Health literacy is defined...

The importance of education for any economic framework is implied in itself; however each nation faces its own challenges in achieving a better quality...

In an exclusive interview with Profit, Qubee CEO Mubashir Naqvi said that to kick off the broadband revolution the government can boost the industry...

Young people are often confronted with complicated financial decisions in today’s demanding financial environment and financial mistakes early in life can have opportunity costs....

The Punjab government’s new admission drive in schools to ensure 100 percent literacy in the province gained a fresh momentum after the secretary schools...

KARACHI - Visa, one of the leading payment solutions providers, has rolled out a financial literacy programme for the media in Pakistan by organising the first educational workshop on financial literacy at the Karachi Press Club (KPC).
Working with members of KPC and the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ), the workshop is aimed at spreading awareness of money management skills among the people of Pakistan. Visa Corporate Communications Manager Lama Kabbani in the Middle East

GUJRANWALA - The Punjab government is allocating billions of rupees for the education sector 100 per cent literacy rate is necessary for the development and progress of the country. This was stated by Punjab Minister for Education Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman while addressing the first convocation of Government Degree College People's Colony.
The members of the Punjab Assembly, Muhammad Saeed Mughal and Shazia Ashfaq, Director Colleges Rana Mushtaq Ahmad, Director Excise Arshad

ISLAMABAD: Embezzlement worth Rs 2.58 million was committed in the name of computer literacy and promotion of use of Internet for educational purposes in Islamabad.
The audit report 2009-10 of Pakistan Computer Bureau (PCB) said it initiated a project titled "Introduction of Computer Education in 81 Federal Government (FG) Model Colleges and Schools in ICT" with the objective of equipping 81 selected schools and colleges with computer labs and Internet.
"Rs 5.10 million were