ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday granted status of university to the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT). Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the new campus of the now COMSATS University for Science and Technology, the Prime Minister also announced ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Like other parts of the country, the leading educational institutes in the Provincial Capital celebrated Independence Day of Pakistan with usual zeal and enthusiasm. Special prays were also made for the prosperity and peace in the country. University of the Punjab, ...

LAKKI MARWAT - The district chapter of All Primary Teachers Association (APTA) has urged the government to refrain from rolling back the recently separated management cadre in elementary and secondary education department. Corruption charges against an individual should not be made a criteria to ...

KARACHI The students of the metropolis under the umbrella of National Student Federation (NSF) again drew up the Charter of Demands to recall the 8th January 1953 students movement, and vowed to continue the struggle for better education facilities as well as political stability in the country. A ...

RAWALPINDI - Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) has collaborated with Lifebuoy /Unilever Pakistan Limited (UPL) for a hygiene education programme in schools. The outreach of this programme was primarily in government and private sector schools. The programme has been launched on television and Wasim ...

LAHORE Patron-in-chief of Minhaj Welfare Foundation Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has declared to accommodate 500 flood-stricken children in the Orphan Care Home (Aagosh), and will solely be responsible for the provision of all residential facilities and education to these children. Dr Qadri has ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced to reserve the newly-constructed building of Punjab House Murrree for educational purposes. The building was handed over to Punjab Endowment Fund at a ceremony in Murree on Sunday and it will be used for providing boarding and lodging ...

LAHORE - Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Mashhood has said that Pakistan is facing the dilemma of double standards in education system but Chief Minister Punjab has initiated work on the Danish School System (DSS) to eliminate these standards, which will provide equal education opportunities to ...

KARACHI Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has lashed out at the teachers associations who are exploiting the teachers to remain away from the educational institutions in the province. The majority of teachers are ghost in Sindh who do not go to teach children, however the Education ...

LAHORE The Secretary School Education Muhammad Aslam Kamboh has directed all Executive District Officers (Education) to cancel transfer orders issued on the basis of temporary duty, loan basis and erratic postings with immediate effects and submit implementation report before May 20. A circular ...

LAHORE (PR) - Madonna joined the Earth Institute, Ericsson and Millennium Promise to announce a new global education initiative aimed at supporting access to primary and secondary education for every child in the world, with an emphasis on secondary schooling for girls. The initiative, 'Connect To ...

LAHORE - Swedish Ambassador in Pakistan Ms Ulrika Sundberg called on Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif at Chief Ministers Secretariat here Saturday. During the meeting, besides matters of mutual interest, increase in cooperation in various sectors also came under discussion. Secretary ...

MULTAN (APP) - Minister of State for education Ghulam Fareed Kathia said Wednesday that government intends to elevate allocation for education sector uplift up to 4.6 percent of GDP or Rs 60 billion but expenses being incurred on war against terrorism were a big hurdle in its way. While addressing ...

KARACHI (PPI) - Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister Ms Sharmila Farooqui has directed Provincial Education Secretary to take effective steps for stopping private schools from charging the fees of coming June-July months of summer vacation besides ensuring registration of private schools. The private ...

LAHORE - Punjab University, Government College Lahore University, National College of Arts and fourteen other educational institutions will remain closed on Thursday (today) due to security concerns on the eve of visit of US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton in City. All these ...

KARACHI - Sindh Education Department has failed to resolve its dispute with Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) over different issues related to college teachers and education. The disagreement between both the entities is causing chaos in the process of admissions to intermediate ...

KARACHI - Sindh government has urged the Prime Minister to get vacated over 24 buildings of educational institutions, occupied by the law enforcement agencies in the province. Speaking in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday, Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq said that police, Rangers and other LEAs ...

LAHORE - Take it as a pressure tactics or a protest of one of its own kind that Punjab Minister for Education Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman is forcing Secretary Higher Education to accommodate two lady lectures failing which he returned all the summaries sent to him. The minister has also warned him ...

LAHORE - Dust of wrong-doings by a PML-N MNA and Punjab Minister for Prisons has hardly settled yet, and now a Rana-Mian duo has surfaced to take control of a womens college, and is bent upon securing jobs of their chosen ones at every cost after recruiting people with political affiliations ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - In India the Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who unveiled his partys manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls here on Saturday, said the party is against English medium education and the use of computers and will work to ensure that they are curbed if a government is ...

ISLAMABAD- Federal Minister for Education Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani is seeking special sanction of Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani to bring all higher bodies working for the uplift of education under the Ministry of Education. The Education Ministry, most neglected sector of the country, has ...

KARACHI - The Decentralised Elementary Education Project (DEEP) in Sindh with financial assistance of Asian Development Bank, has been closed due to failure of education department in achieving the desired targets set in the projects, sources told The Nation. The original cost of the project was ...

LAHORE - Education department was perhaps the most vulnerable department to be made scapegoat to use its funds for political exigencies particularly the electioneering and campaigns of ruling party candidates. A source in education department revealed to The Nation that funds for second ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government has closed down 61-year-old College of Physical Education for boys, Gulberg by converting it into a general education college by transferring the entire teaching staff of physical education to different colleges in the city. The only physical education college for ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Education Department has turned down the request of Punjab University's former acting Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Arif Butt seeking MP-II scale for the services he rendered during September 24, 2007 to January 2, 2008 for the varsity. The education department has taken ...