Education - 17

The PIA planetarium will be shifted to the University of Karachi campus from its existing location, and will become a part of KU’s Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics. Talking to media men after inaugurating an IT institute’s building at Karachi University, Dr Attaur Rahman, who is also the chairman of the Higher Education Commission, [...]

The English may be a foreign language, but it is international in its significance. It is rightly taken as the lingua franca, the common language in all parts of the world today. There is need to learn and use it in our country even though we also need to develop and adopt our own national [...]

Farhan, Alizah, Junaid and Sonia were declared the winners of their respective categories in an art contest held among students of various institutes for handicapped children. The contest, organized jointly by the Ida Rieu School for the Deaf and Blind and a social worker Jimmy Engineer, in connection with the independence day celebrations, was held [...]

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to launch ‘Best University Teachers’ scheme under which 50 teachers will be awarded a cash prize of Rs100,000 each along with certificates of distinctions every year. In this connection, the HEC has earmarked Rs30 million, and initially 250 teachers will be awarded these cash prizes, said an official [...]

Usman Ahmed, a 17-year old student from Lahore, could be the next Pakistani science sensation. Usman has just successfully completed a five-week course to which he had won entry through a worldwide competition. The annual research event for young scientists is sponsored by the Virginia-based Research Science Institute and run jointly by the world famous [...]

Hina Khan, a student of Mass Communication at Kinnaird College for Women, will represent Pakistan at an international conference organised by Harvard University. The conference will be held in Shanghai from August 18 to 21. Ms Hina will present a paper on ‘Population Planning’.

Touched by the decision of Pakistan Government to rename a school in his village of birth after him, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday expressed “warm appreciation for this gesture of goodwill” on the part of his counterpart Shujaat Hussain…

A British Pakistani Police Officer Tarique Ghaffur has been awarded CBE Award for services to policing in UK in the 2004 Queen’s birthday honours list. Tarique Ghaffur is currently serving as Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police. Mr. Ghaffur was honoured in recognition of his position as a positive role model to all communities, [...]

Pakistan will turn the birthplace of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh into a model village as an act of goodwill, the government said Thursday. Singh, 71, was born into a poor Sikh family in Gah, Pakistan, a rural backwater about 50 miles southwest of Islamabad in Punjab province. He completed his primary school education there [...]

On her first day of school in America, Subeia Ahmed sat front and center in the Framingham High School classroom, armed with an English dictionary and a neat row of freshly sharpened pencils. The 15-year-old was determined to succeed, but faced a far more difficult transition than most freshmen. She, along with her mother and [...]