Tag: Teacher

HEC confers Best University Teacher Award 2010 on Dr Ruhi...

Beaconhouse National University Institute of Psychology Director Professor Dr Ruhi Khalid has been selected by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan for the...

Lightning kills 18 schoolchildren, teacher in Uganda

A lightning strike has killed 18 children and their teacher in Uganda, police said. Uganda has one of the highest rates of lightning...

Lady teacher dismissed for fraud

A lady teacher who served the education department for 14 years on a fake appointment letter was dismissed by the district education officer Chiniot...

Strike observed against killing of Balochistan varsity teacher

The strike is being observed in different cities of Balochistan including Quetta against the killing of Balochistan University's teacher, Saba Dashtyari. Professor Ghulam Hussain alias...

All teachers to be regularised: education minister

All the teachers in the province will be regularised on the basis of merit, provincial Senior Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq said on Sunday....

Teacher training workshop held

A workshop on “Capacity Building of Staff of Teacher Education Institutions” was held on Tuesday at the Sunfort Hotel with the cooperation of the...

5-year wait for would-be teachers comes to end

The Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered the provincial government on Wednesday to issue appointment letters to the candidates, who had passed the written and...

After 3-decade service, SMI’s beloved teacher bids farewell

KARACHI - The Sindh Madressahtul Islam (SMI) bid farewell to one of its beloved teachers, Ramesh P Jethmalani, who retired on Saturday after having served the institution for 30 years.
A farewell party for Jethmalani was organised on Saturday by the institution at its Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto Auditorium, where the SMI principal and other senior teachers led the tributes for the selfless services of the in charge of SMI College Section.
Born on March 26, 1951 in Karachi,

Plagiarism – Another teacher brings shame to PU

LAHORE - After Peshawar University Vice Chancellor Dr Azmat Hayat Khan's involvement in plagiarism, a Punjab University (PU)'s teacher has been allegedly found copying from the research article of an Indian professor.
PU Professor Safder Ali Sherazi allegedly copied from a Sikh professor's research paper on Indian Punjab's climate and applied its findings to the climate of Pakistani Punjab.
Sherazi also got published the plagiarized research paper in a research journal

Teacher tries to kill herself

KARACHI - A government female teacher was shifted to the hospital in a critical condition after she attempted self-immolation Wednesday in protest against her transfer to Murad Memon Goth and non-payment of salary for the last three months.
Shama W/O Habib of Government Primary School Memon Goth used kerosene oil to set herself on fire when she reached the school. According to the police, School teacher was transferred to another school in Murad Memon Goth about ten months

PU geography teacher ‘cheats’ administrations

LAHORE - A teacher from the Punjab University's (PU) Geography Department, Safder Ali Sherazi, is allegedly cheating on PU, Karachi University (KU) and Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to PU sources, Safdar took a two-year study leave from PU in 2006 to do his PhD from KU, which he later did not extend in 2008, and kept on getting salary from the PU accounts. After four years, he is still studying at the KU, and allegedly is also involved in

TEACHER WOES – Teachers unhappy with schools’ administrations

Lahore - While government schools are known to be unable to satisfy their teachers, private school teachers of the relatively lower-middle-class schools have also started to complain that their schools' administrations can not cater to their demands, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to the teachers, administration of these schools exploits them, whereas nobody in the government was willing to take up the issue. They said that after retirement, there was no mechanism of

4th KC Teacher Workshop ends

LAHORE: Fourth Teachers Training Workshop, hosted by Kinnaird College in collaboration with Environmental Protection Department (EDP), was held from November 15 to December 15.
Initiated in June 2008 with funds provided by EDP, the programme aims to create environmental awareness amongst the youth and is designed to develop awareness, competence and teamwork in the teachers to impart environmental awareness in their students.
The first workshop was carried out with the

Teacher of Tehrik Taliban Swat chief dies in hospital

PESHAWAR: Maulana Wali Ullah Kabalgrami, teacher of Tehrik Taliban Swat chief Maulana Fazal Ullah, died after a prolonged illness in a hospital here on Wednesday.
Maulana Kabalgrami had been in the custody of the security forces for the last one and a half year. He had been associated with the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah Muhammadi Buner since long and was one of the close aides of Maulana Soofi Muhammad.
The body of Maulana Kabalgrami was handed over to his relatives.

ICS teacher issues clarification

Shafia Bhatti, a contractual lecturer at Punjab University Institute of Communication Studies (PUICS), has responded said that the student Adnan Qurban a BS honor's student was failed and now he is trying to make sectarian issue.
However Adnan Qurban insisted on claiming a bias was behind him failing.
Shafia Bhatti's statement said that Adnan did not contribute to the final group project and was not present on the day of viva voice of the term paper. She further claimed his

PU student accuses teacher of sectarian bias

LAHORE
A Punjab University (PU) student on Friday wrote a written complaint to the PU Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Mujahid Kamran accusing his teacher of sectarian discrimination, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Student Syed Adnan Qureshi threatened to commit suicide if action was not taken against his teacher Shafia Bhatti. Qureshi alleged that Shafia had used derogatory words against the sacred places of his sect, which had badly hurt him. On the other hand, Shafia denied the