Primary education forms the foundation on which the pillars of the rest of the education in life stands. Dr Khurshid Husnain, Head of Physics Department at Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), thinks that there is a strong need to improve the quality of primary schools in the country. “The primary education system is the main problem [...]
ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday signed the regulation for establishment of Wana Cadet College in South Waziristan Agency, FATA. Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that the Prime Minister during his address at the Governor House Peshawar on August 27, 2008 had announced the establishment of six cadet colleges to promote [...]
ISLAMABAD: As many as 15 higher education institutions of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) have sent letters to the governor informing him about the financial crunch that has made it impossible for the universities to pay 50 percent increase in salaries announced last year as well as the 15 percent increase announced this year. According [...]
As many as 377 graduates have been awarded degrees of whom 200 are bachelors and 177 are Masters at the convocation of Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology held on Saturday at the Jinnah Convention Centre. Of 377 graduates, thirty-four students were awarded gold medals including two PhD scholars. About 4,000 students have [...]
FAISALABAD – The Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) has ranked the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad second best Pakistani university after Agha Khan University. This was stated by Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Vice Chancellor of UAF, while addressing the Assistant Professor’s meeting as a chief guest held on Friday at New Senate Hall [...]
ISLAMABAD – At the third convocation of National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Business School as many as 221 students were awarded BBA degrees awarded from sessions of 2004, 2005 and 2006 Saturday. NUST Rector Engr Muhammad Asghar who was the chief guest on the occasion awarded degrees to 221 graduating students of [...]
PESHAWAR – Director Women’s Business Development Centre (WBDC) Nabila Farman has called upon the women to equip themselves with vocational skills so at to become enabled to earn livelihoods for their families. Speaking to the female vocational students and trainers of the Vocational Training Centre, Nowshera, at the WBDC in Peshawar on Sunday, [...]
PESHAWAR – Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Barrister Masood Kausar on Tuesday said the promotion of education and health facilities and creation of employment opportunities for the youth of Fata were the three basic priorities of the government. “Youth of Fata is the focus of our attention as well because being custodian of our future, [...]
ISLAMABAD – The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) organised a seminar on Higher Education and Socio-Economic Development of Pakistan on Wednesday. Dr Javaid R Laghari, Chairperson Higher Education Commission, who was chief guest, gave a comprehensive overview of the key challenges in higher education and research. Dr Laghari said that the Asian [...]
There have been sixty four years to our independence, but, unfortunately, we have not been able to introduce a uniform system of education within our country. Presently, three different systems of education are working in our country. These are O/A level System (under Cambridge International Examinations-CIE), Matriculation/ F.Sc level System (governed by our Secondary/Intermediate Boards) [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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