ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has decided to formulate a policy and ensure that all medical colleges allocate 50 per cent beds for the poor patient free of cost including consultation fee and treatment. This was decided in a meeting of administrator PM&DC Dr Raja Amjad ...

KARACHI  - The students week at Khursheed Government Girls Degree College Shah Faisal Town began here on Sunday with colourful activities.The first day of the celebrations started with a scientific exhibition in which different colleges of Karachi took part. The college students presented ...

RAWALPINDI  - The government of Punjab has approved three new degree colleges for Rawalpindi. Approval has been accorded for one boy’s degree college and two girls college each at Dhamial. A boy’s degree college is being set up in Dhok Ratta and classes are likely to start therein ...

QUETTA - The Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Thursday placed a ban on appointment of vacant posts in government colleges till further orders.A division bench, headed by BHC Chief Justice Qazi Faez Esa, issued the order on a petition filed by Masoom Khan Kakar.The petitioner assailed the notified ...

ISLAMABAD - Snooker should be included in the syllabus in colleges and schools as a subject the country to find world-class players in near future, said national junior snooker champion Hunain Aamir Tito in an exclusive interview with TheNation on Wednesday. Hunain (15), who is a 9th class student ...

NANKANA SAHIB - Despite the Punjab governments tall claims regarding improvement in ensuring education for all and promoting literacy rate especially in the Punjabs rural areas are not based on reality as all the seven colleges here are facing acute shortage of teaching staff, TheNation has learnt. ...

GUJRAT - The four constituent colleges of the University of Gujrat have reportedly made unprecedented progress. Fatima Jinnah College for Women, Marghzar College for Women, Railway Road College for Women and G.T. Road College for Boys in their symbiosis with the UOG have harvested numerous ...

Following violent protests across the province over Board of Governors issue, a round of talks was held between Education Board officials and representatives of teachers unions in Lahore on Friday, reported a private TV channel. Both sides agreed on establishing a 6-member committee to review the ...

LAHORE The University of the Punjab Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has stressed the need for harnessing hockey talent at the college and university level in order to raise the standard of the game in the country. He made these comments before Pakistan Hockey Federation Secretary Asif ...

LAHORE - The government is changing the syllabus in order to stop the students from 'Jihad and giving autonomy to the colleges through board of governors is injustice to the students, said Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Ameer Jamaat-ud-Dawaa. He expressed these views while addressing a seminar of ...

LAHORE The Punjab Assembly on Thursday was told that in all the districts of the province posts of professors and lecturers were lying vacant in the public sector colleges, and the government is yet to chalk out a plan to fill the slots. Minister Excise and Taxation Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, ...

LAHORE - The private medical colleges of the province have earned around Rs20 million from the parents of students by selling the admission prospectus for MBBS and BDS programmes. Pakistan Medical Association President Dr Sarwar Chauhdry and Joint Secretary Dr Shahid Malik have termed the act as a ...

KARACHI - Public colleges in Orangi Town and Qasba Colony have become troublesome for the Directorate of Colleges, Sindh, as teachers are not willing to perform their duties in the government colleges situated in these areas due to the law and order situation. The Government Girls College Orangi ...

LAHORE - Central Incharge Peoples Labour Bureau (PLB) and member PPPs CEC Ch Manzoor on Tuesday showed his utmost concern over privatisation of 26 premier colleges by the Punjab government, saying it would make education costly for the poor. Addressing a news conference along with PPPs Punjab ...

A Spokesman of Health Department Punjab has said that the date of holding of entry test for the admissions in Medical and Dental Colleges of the Province has been revised and now the test will be held on 20th July. According to handout issued here on Wednesday, Chief Minister Punjab Mohammad ...

ISLAMABAD Despite passage of a couple of weeks, Islamabad police is still clueless about those who had created panic and fear among the residents of the Federal Capital through three high intensity bomb explosions. It is worth-mentioning here that a blast had occurred in the parking lot of ...

RAWALPINDI - The district government has made tight security arrangements at all colleges both for boys and girls of the city to avoid any untoward situation. Keeping in view the current deteriorating law and order situation, CCTV cameras and metal detectors have been provided while strength of ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday said the terrorists are working on foreign agenda with a view to destroy the country. Addressing a prize-distribution ceremony for position-holders in intermediate Part-II examinations, he said the basic problem of Pakistan is terrorism, which could ...

KARACHI - As many as 19575 seats have been increased in the government-run colleges in view of the matriculation result and now 99,800 seats are available for first-year admission in different groups in 124 government colleges of Karachi. Director General Colleges Sindh/Chairman Centralised ...

The call typically comes from a banker, bringing word of a fairy godmother. This is followed quickly by a check arriving in the mail - or two checks, the larger earmarked for scholarships for women and minority students, the smaller to be spent at the recipients discretion. The only catch, for at ...

KARACHI - Around 29 colleges in Sindh are working without Sanctioned Numbers of Employees (SNE) teachers because their SNEs are withheld in the province by the Sindh Finance Department, The Nation has learnt from information gathered by the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA). The ...

KARACHI - The University of Karachi has decided to conduct the examination of graduate level at specific colleges of the metropolitan. As many as 16 boys colleges and 44 girls colleges have been selected to conduct the above-mentioned examination. The university has decided to take necessary ...

Sindh Education department has withdrawn its notification to hand over two government colleges to a private trust. Secretary Sindh Education Rizwan Memon said notification issued for handing over Khatoon-e-Pakistan and Raana Liaquat Ali Khan to a private trust has been cancelled. It may be reminded ...

Iran has hanged a woman and four men for murder and a fifth man for drug trafficking, reports said on Thursday. The five executions for murder were carried out on Wednesday in the capital's Evin prison, the government daily Iran reported. The woman, identified only by her first name Shabnam, was ...