Tag: Phd

Like father, like son: Ex-VC’s son found to be HEC defaulter

--Around 70 scholarship awardees declared defaulters for violating HEC rules ISLAMABAD: In what seems to be an unfortunate development, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has...

Pakistani students offered Eiffel scholarship in France

The French embassy in Islamabad listed details of the Eiffel scholarship programme for the Pakistani students who are seeking higher education in various institutions...

HEC not to recognise Al-Khair’s MS/MPhil, PhD

AJK-based university asked to reimburse three times expenses to all victim students ISLAMABAD: After conducting a long and hard review of proliferation of illegal affiliations...

Jobless PhD degree holders ask CJP to take sou moto notice

--HEC fails to implement its own regulations as several positions in public sector universities still vacant  ISLAMABAD: In utter disappointment, the young jobless PhDs degree...

Sharmila Farooqi sails through PhD entrance test from hospital

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Sharmila Farooqi, has aced the entrance test for PhD in Law without physically appearing in the exam. She...

Peshawar University denies promotion to ‘eligible’ candidate

  PESHAWAR: A PhD scholar of the Journalism Department of the University of Peshawar was not made assistant professor, it was learnt reliably. Dr Amir Hamza...

HEC bans M Phil, PhD enrollments in 13 universities offering distance...

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Thursday banned enrollments in MPhil and PhD programmes in 13 universities which offer distance learning programmes for...

Teachers vow to uphold PhD condition for VC appointments

LAHORE: Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) and elected members of other teachers’ bodies have announced that they would never compromise...

AIOU invites foreign experts to teach PhD students through e-learning

ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has invited foreign experts to teach its PhD students through e-Learning system under a well-conceived idea to update students...

PU ICS PhD case: LHC issues notice on facts concealment

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) while expressing displeasure over facts concealment regarding alleged irregularities in the PhD admissions at Institute of Communication Studies (ICS)...

CIIT announces PhD Scholarships for Baloch Youths, CM Balochistan hails decision

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology has announced 50 annual scholarships for youth from Balochistan. The decision was a follow up to the Gwadar Declaration &...

From middle pass to PhD, Punjab Assembly has it all

Citizens from different professions, religions, educational qualifications, age groups, genders make up country’s largest province’s legislative assembly She looks like a normal parliamentarian. Her portfolio...

Pakistan’s first PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies

A public defence of a PhD thesis titled, “Role of Maritime Strategy in National Security: A Case Study of Gwadar” was held at National...

No GAT, NTS for MPhil, PhD aspirants

LAHORE The Punjab University (PU) on Friday ended the condition of passing graduate assessment test (GAT) organised by the National Testing Services (NTS) for admission...

LHC calls VCs over NTS monopoly

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday issued notices to the vice chancellors of 100 universities on a petition filed against the National Testing...

HEC sets 1,000 PhDs per year as its aim

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is making efforts to produce up to 1,000 PhD scholars each year under its indigenous scholarship schemes, to meet...

HEC facilitates more than 1600 Local PhD Scholars

Under International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP), Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has awarded 1647 scholarships to PhD scholars, studying in higher education...