Tag: Science

KC organises Science Exhibition

LAHORE - The Science Club of Kinnaird College (KC) for Women, Lahore organized the first ever Science Exhibition 2011 on Wednesday. Students from the departments of natural, formal and applied sciences participated in the event. Around 250 students contested for three categories including model making, poster presentation and multimedia presentation whereas around 60 students also presented scientific concepts, techniques and their research projects.
KC Principal Dr Rukhsna

FC college discusses role of science

LAHORE - Two-day international workshop on "The Conduct of Responsible Science" started yesterday, in the auditorium of FC College University Lahore. Punjab University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran presided over the second session of the first day of the workshop. The workshop is being organized in collaboration with FC College University Lahore, International Council for Life Sciences (ICLS) and COMSTECH.

Science students prefer matric to O-level

Lahore - Students seeking professional education have started preferring Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) system and have started opting for Matriculation and Intermediate instead of General Certificate of Education (GCE), O and A-levels, has learnt.
Various families, especially of doctors and engineers, are forcing their children to follow the Pakistani educational system as they consider that the course taught in engineering and medical colleges are based on

ARCHAIC WISDOM – Factual errors found in science textbooks

Lahore - The spectrum of education revolves around the quality of teachers and the textbooks and the situation becomes hopeless when the children are taught obsolete and even factually incorrect information. Pakistan Today has learnt about a number of such factual inaccuracies in various science textbooks of different grades.
NEBULA VS GALAXY: For instance, in the science textbook for eighth standard, the chapter "Galaxies and Stars" has numerous mistakes. On page no 161, the