Tag: Scholarships

HEC announces Moroccan scholarships

The Higher Education Commission, under its Foreign-Funded Scholarship Programme (FFSP), is encouraging Pakistani students to avail 10 scholarships offered by the Moroccan Agency of...

99 Scholarships approved under HEC-USAID

A meeting of the Scholarship Management Committee, which is the steering committee under HEC-USAID Merit and Needs based Program, has approved cases of 99...

German scholarships for Pakistani students increased

German Scholarships for Pakistani Students were increased to 40 and efforts are being made for further increase up to 100. With opening up of...

LCN gives away scholarships

LAHORE - Leadership Colleges Network (LCN) celebrated the Leaders Day at Rawalpindi Arts Council during which also included annual prize distribution ceremony. Dr Jamal Nasir, the chairman of green task force, was the chief guest while Waseem Ahmed, CEO of LCN, was the guest of honour. The LCN gave away three prizes of Rs 500,000, 150,000 and 100,000 for scholarship. Four other prizes of Rs 20,000 each were also distributed among the students.

‘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

Scholarships will continue after HEC: Rabbani

KARACHI - Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination Mian Raza Rabbani has said that funds to scholars studying aboard would not stop and that they will continue to receive their scholarship as usual.
Speaking to the media at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday, he said that it was beyond his understanding as to why some elements were creating 'a scary situation' about the devolution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and misguiding the media and the people.
He

USAID scholarships awarded

ISLAMABAD - Pre-Service Teacher Education Programme (Pre-STEP) funded by the USAID awarded 410 scholarships to talented Pakistani students training as elementary school teachers (EST) while completing the two-year Associate Degree in Education (ADE) and four-year BEd (Hons) Elementary programmes, at ceremonies organised in all the four provinces.
Scholarships were awarded to the students of 12 universities and colleges including Karakoram International University, Government

GCU gives away Rs 1.52 million scholarships

LAHORE - The Government College University (GCU) Endowment Fund Trust (EFT) has given Rs 1.529 million in scholarships to as many as 28 needy and talented students of the varsity for their complete one-year academic and hostel expenses. Dr Khalid Manzoor Butt from the GCU EFT Executive Committee said that a seven-member GCU Financial Aid Committee headed by Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies Chairperson Dr Sultan Shah has given the scholarships, donated by Old Ravians, purely on

Position holders deprived of scholarships

HAFIZABAD - The position holders in last year's Middle Standard Examination are fed up as their scholarships have not been released despite the passage of one year. The Punjab government had announced scholarships for the position holders but after one year, not even a single student could receive the prize money.
This situation had created a sense of deprivation among the students who showed extra ordinary performance in the examination. All the position holders had demanded

Sports Deptt to award scholarships

LAHORE - The Punjab Sports Department will be giving scholarships to its outstanding players on quarterly basis.
In this regard a function is being arranged to award scholarships for the second quarter to the top performers of the province in the PSB Inter Provincial U-16 Boys and Girls. The ceremony will take place on January 22, at 11:00 am at Punjab Stadium, Lahore.