Tag: Students

LAHORE - In the wake of the developments over the past couple of weeks, an overwhelming majority of the students are condemning the 'heinous' acts of a group of hooligans, helped by outsiders, who have stooped low enough to manhandle female students and senior faculty members, as aired on some television channels.
A controversy started after the University of Education Vice Chancellor Professor Farhat Saleem sacked Director of Science and Technology Dr Anwaar Pasha and his wife

LAHORE - The Punjab chapter of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society imparted emergency response training to students at Government College for Women, Samanabad on Tuesday.The training continued for five days in which students were trained in emergency response, first aid training, natural disaster management, youth activities and were introduced to the Red Crescent.
Providing bandage, giving first aid in case of a heart attack, helping burn victims, shifting injured to hospital and

LAHORE - Students seeking admissions in the MPhil programs in the social sciences and humanities have complained about the paper pattern of the entry test conducted by National Testing Service (NTS). Students claimed that most part of the paper comprised of English language, whereas there was no weight given to subjects like General Knowledge and Current Affairs.
According to the Higher Education Commission, students who sought admission in the MPhil programme had to clear

LAHORE - Class five examinations under the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) will kick-off today (Tuesday) in all districts of Punjab amid load shedding and a hectic date sheet. The class five examinations would continue until February 4. Students of class 8 have already started pulling-up their socks as their exams would commence from February 7 to February 12.
According to a PEC official, about 2.5 million students from all districts of Punjab would sit in the exams of class

FAISALABAD - After a student's suicide attempt due to humiliation in the name of 'fooling' by senior students, the management of NFC Institute of Engineering and Fertilizers Research is isolating the victim from the media instead of taking disciplinary action against those responsible for the incident.
Reportedly, the NFC authorities, using their personal influence, got the victim Shahid discharged from the district headquarters hospital and removed his medical record and

ISLAMABAD - Minister of state for industries and production Ayatullah Durrani on Thursday made a startling disclosure that Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had trained 25 professors teaching in Balochistan to misguide the students against Pakistan by brainwashing them.
The minister said this during a meeting of a delegation of professors from Balochistan with Education Minister Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali.
"RAW has trained 25 professors to misguide our

Lahore - A large number of University of Education (UoE) students staged a protest outside the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Thursday against sacking of UoE IT Director Anwar Rehman Pasha and his wife Shaheen. They demanded officials concerned to take stern action against people who thrashed students during Wednesday's protest, and chanted slogans against Pasha and his wife's termination. Protesters said that IT students are not allowed to enter varsity premises and IT students, including

ISLAMABAD - The Standing Committee of National Assembly on Inter-Provincial Coordination was told Wednesday that around 70 percent children drop out after primary education in Balochistan owing to unavailability of transport facility and 600 scholarships meant exclusively for the Baloch students have not been given by the government so far.
"Middle or high schools are located at a distance that cannot be accessed without transport facilities, which results in drops-out," Chief

LAHORE - The Township Police on Wednesday brutally tortured journalists and University of Education (UoE) students on protesting against termination of two varsity faculty members. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif condemned the torture and formed a committee to prove termination of UoE IT Director Anwarur Rehman Pasha and his wife Shaheen Pasha.
The torture took place at the Akbar Chowk, Township where police thrashed journalists and UoE students and also arrested some

LAHORE - The Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs Summit (YLES), 2011 kicked off on Wednesday at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Sports Complex with an exciting opening ceremony. This year, theme of YLES is Rural Entrepreneurship and according to organisers, the topic has become particularly important after the recent floods.
The ceremony featured instrumental band Quadrum, as the name suggests, the quartet with four drums offered a unique musical experience. With

LONDON - British students prepared to take to the streets once again Wednesday over cuts to the education budget, this time over plans to scrap grants given to high-school pupils from low-income families. A march and rally were planned in London to coincide with a parliamentary debate on the coalition government's moves to scrap the education maintenance allowance as part of its efforts to slash the budget deficit.
The protest comes after a series of violent student

LAHORE - A convention with students from 21 universities will be held on February 20 by the All Pakistan Muslim League to launch its first phase of public liaison campaign. Spokesman APML Barrister Fawad Chaudhry said only APML can get the country out of prevailing crisis, adding that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz group's demand of taking Pervaiz Musharraf to court was political victimization and reflected the party's level of frustration.

ISLAMABAD - The empty claims of Federal Directorate of Education to provide bus services to students and the limited routes taken by institutions' bus services have only aggravated the problems faced by the students living in rural areas of the capital.
Owing to shortage of transport facilities, some parents have opted not to send their daughters to colleges, while male students from rural areas have to risk their lives everyday by traveling on the rooftops of public buses in

ISLAMABAD - Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's killer Mamtaz Qadri should not be given the status of a hero, instead he must be treated like a killer, said Quaid-i-Azam University students on Friday.
The students staged a protest rally against the killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in the varsity's premises and demanded that Qadri must be hanged quickly. They were carrying placards and banner inscribed with slogans against Taseer's killer and chanted slogans against the

LAHORE - Students in large numbers thronged the Government College University (GCU) Book Fair on Thursday to buy books at cheap prices in order to increase their thirst for knowledge.
The book fair provided a good opportunity to students for taking a break from their day-to-day educational activities. Students said that no civilised society could ignore importance of such fairs in promoting the habit of reading books and providing an opportunity to students and people to buy

Lahore - Parents of students have expressed their reservations against the newly proposed uniform syllabus of medical entry test for both Fsc and A-levels students by the University of Health Sciences (UHS), Pakistan Today has learnt.
The medical entry test conducted by the UHS has been marred in controversies for a past few years, as A-level students claimed they were at a losing end in a test which they claimed favoured Fsc students. Several protests have been held in previous

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