Tag: Varsities

BZU honours 7,000 students at convocation

MULTAN: Around 7,000 students were awarded degrees at the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) 14th convocation held at Jinnah Auditorium here on Tuesday. As many as 52...

National festival calls for varsities’ role for promotion of book-reading culture

  Effective role of universities was urged for promotion of book-reading culture, knowledge creation and dissemination at a seminar titled, “Role of Universities in Promoting...

CM forms committee for security of varsities, schools

  Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, addressing a meeting of vice chancellors of public and private universities in Punjab on Thursday, said that protection of students...

Three varsities closed in Punjab over security fears, many schools sealed,...

  Following the closure of schools across Punjab, as many as three universities were closed till January 31 over poor security arrangements. These there varsities were...

Sheesha smoking getting increasingly common in varsities

A Pakistani research published in Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing on Sisha smoking proposed that 40 percent of Pakistani male students puff the...

HEC ranking of Pak varsities receives int’l recognition

The ranking exercise carried out by Higher Education Commission (HEC) has received worldwide attention and recognition and the web statistics of HEC website...

HEC, USAID fundraising event for varsities staff concludes

The Higher Education Commission (HEC), in collaboration with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), organized a workshop for fundraising and resource mobilisation for...

Munter greets Pakistani students leaving for US varsities

US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has congratulated over 100 Pakistani students who will traveling to the United States for university education as part...

Greenwich and Fatih varsities enter cooperation pact

The Greenwich University and Fatih University of Istanbul have signed a preliminary protocol to further the cause of education and research. The protocol was...

Turkish experts to help Pakistan varsities set up technology parks

To help the crumbling economy of the country, the Higher Education Commission (HEC), in collaboration with Middle East Technical University (METU), will set up...

Bahria int’l signs MoU with Chinese varsities

The Bahria University has recently entered into academic partnerships with three Chinese Universities by signing MoUs with Tongji University, Fudan University, China Agricultural University...

Varsities should not impose decisions on academics: GCU VC

University administrations are not meant to impose their decisions on academicians, instead they have a better job of facilitating faculty members to put the...

Varsities need to honour research potential, says new GCU VC

Universities should honour their research potential if they wish to play a dynamic role in stabilising the national economy and achieve social equilibrium, newly-appointed...

Enrolment in province’s varsities has increased: governor

Enrolment in the universities of the Sindh has considerably increased during the past several years, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad said in a statement...

21 varsities to attend FCC’s Vasaakh film festival

LAHORE - Delegations from 21 universities, 19 local and five international, will attend the 4th Vasaakh documentary film festival being organised by Forman Christian College (FCC) Mass Communication Department from April 18 to 20.
Notable foreign universities have been invited to the festival, including University of Oslo, Norway, Delhi University, India, University of Bhopal, India and Katmandu University, Nepal. The festival will showcase student documentaries based on cultural

Centre to fund varsities for two years: Qaim

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Saturday presided a meeting of vice chancellors of Sindh's public sector universities at the CM House. The meeting was briefed that after approval of 18th amendment, education is a provincial subject and educational institutions including universities are under provincial government set-up.
The chief minister addressing the meeting said that not only 18th amendment, even long ago under federal list number 1, concurrent list,

‘10% more female smokers in colleges and varsities in last few...

KARACHI - The number of female smokers in the colleges and universities of the country has jumped from six percent to 16 percent in a matter of a few years, disclosed healthcare experts during 12th Biennial Convention of Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) on the topic of 'Tobacco Control - Key to Disease Prevention'. They expressed grave concern over the popularity of cigarettes among the youth due to their lower prices, saying that cigarettes are cheaper than a loaf of bread