An international Agriculture Centre will be set up at University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) to provide a firm foundation to the sector by focusing on genetic revolution, climate change, biotechnology, precision agriculture, efficient use of agricultural input etc. Setting up an international centre is a welcome step particularly when our economy is mainly [...]
To further strengthen Pak-China friendship, Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) has started a Chinese language course. Prof. G. E. of National University of Modern Languages (NUML) was chief guest at the course-launching ceremony. The chief guest not only appreciated the spirit and hardwork of the students for holding this program but while identifying their bright [...]
USAID will help the government build 200 new schools where nearly 700,000 children from eight of the flood-affected districts, including Khairpur, Dadu, Shahdadkot, Jacobabad and Larkana, will be taught. KARACHI: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has decided to give Sindh $155 million for a five-year basic education programme. USAID mission director Dr [...]
The United States will work with the Pakistan’s government to renovate more than 2,000 schools and build 150 new ones over the next two years as part of its efforts to improve education in Pakistan, US ambassador Cameron Munter has said. Responding to an article in a leading American newspaper implying that US had [...]
ISLAMABAD (APP) – The World Bank approved on Friday a package of assistance worth of $400 million to help Pakistan improve the access, quality and relevance of education at every level of education. The World Bank said that the projects were designed to improve conditions for teaching, learning and research for enhanced access, [...]
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that health and education are top priorities of the Government. The Prime Minister was talking to Mr. Mubashar Riaz Shaikh, Executive Director of Global Health Workforce Alliance at WHO HQs, Geneva who called on him at PM’s House. The Prime Minister appreciated the cooperation [...]
USAID has signed an ‘implementation letter’ with Punjab, to promote education in five backward districts of South Punjab. Making the agreement with the provincial government as part of the new US policy of working with the provincial governments in Pakistan, USAID will provide a grant of $148 million for promoting education in D.G. Khan, [...]
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) [...]
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said education was the key to fight against ignorance, extremism and terrorism, therefore the government had taken a number of steps to promote educational facilities, both for boys and girls. Addressing Islamabad Model Schools for Boys and Girls here at PM Staff Colony, after inaugurating the new [...]
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