“Do away with the darkness of illiteracy by gaining as much knowledge as you can. We have to get rid of lingual, sectarian and provincial prejudices in order to become true Pakistanis.” These were the ideas shared by Begum Mehnaz Rafi, convener of the Women Wing and a prominent social ...

LAHROE (PR):  A new award called the Foundation Diploma is launched by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). The Foundation Diploma provides essential knowledge and skills for those students who have completed Intermediate, Matriculation or O ‘levels and a clear ...

LONDON - Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, on Monday denounced an attack on a bus carrying female students in Quetta as "cowardly".At least 25 people were killed on Saturday when militants blew up the bus in the capital of restive ...

The private institutions have played a significant role in increasing literacy in Pakistan. Their role in improving the standard of education is also commendable. But there is a serious dilemma that all the institutions, either public or private, need to be on the same page, they should have the ...

LAHORE -Documentaries and tableaus on Pakistan Movement, Quaid-i-Azam, Allama Iqbal, the Madar-i-Millat Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah and life and services of other heroes of the independence struggle were shown students in connection with “The Movie Day” on the 6th day of the Ideological ...

LAHORE - The Muslims of the sub-continent participated in the historic struggle for Pakistan on the basis of the Two-Nation Theory. No one likes to the enslaved, as freedom is the greatest of all the blessings. The Muslims of the sub-continents won their freedom from the slavery of the Hindus and ...

LAHORE - The Nation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust (NPT) Chairman Dr Majid Nizami urged students to follow Pakistan Movement veterans so that Pakistan could be transformed into an Islamic state. The NPT chairman said this while during his presidential address at the inaugural function ...

ATTOCK Students of Allama Iqbal Open University raised a voice against the “problems they face” during the examinations being held at Pilot School here. Talking to this scribe, they said that papers were started late while the answer sheets collected from them ahead of the time ...

NEW YORK:  The captain of an American aeroplane grew so infuriated with the behaviour of 100 unruly schoolchildren that he ordered them to leave the plane.The 100 students, all aged 17 or 18, were reportedly refusing to sit down, and continuously playing with their mobile phones. Asked by the ...

LAHORE  - Once again, students of four-year BS (Hons) programme, studying at 26 autonomous colleges of Punjab, have been deprived of summer vacations because of poor semester scheduling, it is learnt. Students of BS (Hons), who have been vacation deprived since the inception of the programme ...

SUFFOLK (DS): Four students at a school in Suffolk have been reading the wrong book for their final A-Level exam in English Literature. The pupils from Newmarket College were supposed to be studying Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. However, staff had failed to spot the change in syllabus, meaning ...

LAHORE (PR): The British Council has selected eleven students from University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore, to act as its “designated official representatives” for one of its unique social entrepreneurial projects called “Connecting ...

BAHAWALPUR The students of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur protested against shortage of facilities amid prolonged loadshedding, and blocked the University Chowk by placing hurdles and burning tyres there. They demanded the provision of a generator, cold water, internet and other facilities. ...

ISLAMABAD -As is the case each year, this year too summer breaks are about to start from June 1 but the students of the schools are yet to obtain the necessary books.Walking on the previous track, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) that is supposed to provide Class I to Class X books free ...

LAHORE - The Nation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria Pakistan Trust Chairman Dr Majid Nizami has urged the teachers to play their role in making youth patriotic and brave Pakistani. He stressed the need for ideological training of the students along with their general education. The NPT chairman ...

LAHORE - Students appearing in examinations are facing difficulties in preparing and attempting papers due to severe heat and worst load shedding prevailing in the country.The all eight boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education of Punjab are conducting Intermediate Part II examination which ...

Dozens of Afghan students studying in different schools of Peshawar on Saturday held a protest demonstration against the alleged maltreatment of the director education Maarif School System and demanded his removal forthwith.The demonstrators led by Hafizullah, Principal Maarif School System, ...

RAWALPINDI  - Most of the public and private schools in the city lack basic facilities like fans, air coolers and cold drinking water to cope with scorching summer.During a survey, conducted by The Nation on Saturday, it transpired that most of the government and private schools lack basic ...

ISLAMABAD-Chinese Premier HE Li Keqiang visited Roots Millennium Schools (RMS) on Friday and met every RMS child, RMS CEO Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, Director Mrs Anna Faisal, Manager RCLD Mrs Ayesha Ansar and staff briefed the prime minister about the development of the Roots Chinese Language ...

CHOLISTAN Baqaul MohsinThe Punjab interim government has reportedly decided to close down in March, 2014 the 75 community schools set up under the Literate Cholistan Project in 2009 in Cholistan, thereby depriving more than 5,000 schoolchildren of education. However, a total of 40,000 children of ...

HAFIZABADPunjab Education Foundation in collaboration with a British Organisation for International Assistance would provide about 400,000 students with free education up to Matric level to increase literacy rate in the Punjab, said PEF Deputy Director Communication Arooj Salman. Visiting different ...

SIALKOTThe posts of 202 teachers of different scales have been lying vacant for a long time at 34 government special education schools in Gujranwala Division’s all the six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts.Thus, the special students (deaf, dumb, ...

KARACHI - The Inter Board Committee of Chairmen has revealed that as many as 2,306 candidates have been caught cheating so far in the first phase of HSC Part-I & II Annual Examinations-2013 being held in the province.Committee head Prof Anwar Ahmed Zai, who is also serving as chairman to Board ...

LAHOREOn the invitation of Punjab University Academic Staff Association, Balochistan Caretaker Chief Minister Nawab Ghaus Bakhsh Barozai will address at Al-Raazi Hall today (Tuesday) at 10am. PU VC Dr Mujahid Kamran and faculty members will participate in the event. RESULTSPU Examinations ...

MIRPUR (AJK) Over 300 students of the Software Engineering Department of Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST) staged a sit-in at the campus against the non-accreditation of their department by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).Wearing black armbands, waving placards and chanting ...

KARACHI The law enforcement agencies have left the process of HSC Part-I & II Annual Exams on the mercy of invigilators, as poor security arrangements have been made at various examination centres in different parts of the city.An official deputed at an examination centre told TheNation ...

LAHORE - The Career Fair 2013 at the Government College University Lahore Thursday received an enthusiastic response as thousands of the university graduates and final year students flocked at the fair to explore employment opportunities in reputed international and national organizations, besides ...

MIRPUR (AJK) The students of Mirpur University of Science & Technology continued their protest here the second consecutive day by boycotting their classes as a protest against the non-accreditation of their department by the Pakistan Engineering Council, the public-sector regulatory authority ...

ISLAMABAD -Sidra Zaheer from Islamabad Model School for Girls, G-9/3, got overall first position in the Class 8th scholarship examinations conducted by Federal Directorate of Education (FDE).Sidra Zaheer has got 648 marks out of total 700 marks in the exams while Hajra Zaheer from the same school ...

I would like to draw the attention of the concerned authorities to the ban on pillion riding imposed in Karachi. This ban was forced after the Abbas Town tragedy, but there seems to be no lessoning of terrorist activities after the ban, when a terrorist can kill someone, why will he be shy of ...