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Pakistan’s Minister for Environment [has] said environment-related subjects would be introduced in school curriculum after consultation with the ministry of education. He stated this while inaugurating a one-day workshop on “Promotion of environmental issues through social mobilization, interpersonal communication and advocacy”, organized by Islamabad Resource Centre of the National Conservation Strategy of the ministry of [...]

The Pakistan Dental Association wants to collaborate with India in higher education and training in dentistry and buy equipment and materials from here. A 150-member delegation from Pakistan Dental Association, participating in a four-day Federation Dentaire International (FDI) conference that began here Friday, made this interest evident. Over 4,500 delegates are attending the mega exhibition-cum-conference [...]

The Central Developmental Working Party (CDWP) of the federal government has approved the Rs180 million project of establishing the Institute of Communication Technologies at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro. This was stated by Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman Dr Attaur Rehman at an official meeting held on Wednesday, official sources told Dawn. Dr [...]

In order to commercialize the research being conducted in the various universities, research labs, institutes and research centers in Pakistan, Higher Education Commission (HEC) is setting up National Technology Incubators (NTIs) in the country, says Chairman HEC, while chairing the meeting of ‘Technology Incubators in Pakistan’, here today. This would accelerate the process of technology [...]

The Unesco’s regional advisor for culture in Asia and the Pacific announced on Thursday the Baltit Fort of Karimabad in the Hunza region has been honoured with the Award of Excellence in the Unesco 2004 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for culture heritage conservation. The awards were announced in Bangkok on September 1. The Baltit Fort was [...]

Keeping in view the importance and the immediate requirement of the country in the field of avionics, establishment of an institute of avionics and aerospace was the need of the hour… The institute will help solve the research and development problems of private and public sector institutions, he observed. The project will be helpful in [...]

The Provincial Education Department has been instructed to submit a feasibility report to introduce journalism at college level in the Punjab province. He told the gathering that he himself had studied as well as taught at the PU Mass Communication Department and remarked that journalism was an art. He also observed that education of journalism [...]

The Punjab Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) plans to introduce mountaineering and hiking clubs at schools and colleges. The department will publish material about tourism facilities in Pakistan, especially in Punjab. The source said although mountaineering and hiking existed in some universities, colleges and schools, the chief minister wanted such clubs in every school and college [...]

The London Metropolitan University (LMU) plans to open a full-fledged campus in Lahore. Punjab Education Minister Mian Imran Masood has constituted a special committee to finalise approve for the project. The committee was formed after LMU executives’ met with the minister at his office on Wednesday. Mr Masood told reporters that the establishment of an [...]

The National College of Arts (NCA) will open admissions for its upcoming film and TV department next month after a meeting of the academic committee, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.The sources said that activities related to the film and TV department had started with two Iranian filmmakers expected to visit the NCA soon to [...]