Education - 6

The students at the National College of Arts‘ (NCA) Film and TV Department have made short documentaries on noted personalities of the Walled City as their first assignment at the new department. The department, the only one of its kind in Pakistan, was established in January this year and enrolled 16 students selected from all [...]

A 19-year old Pakistani student, Owais M Idris, has been declared the youngest-ever graduate of the University of Michigan Flint, USA. Owais Idris who hails from Karachi, was prominent among 476 fellow graduates at a graduation ceremony held at Perani Arena. Idris was born in Pakistan and later moved to Canada before his father, Mohammad [...]

The provost and executive vice president at Oregon State serves as the chief academic officer for the university, stands in for the president during his absence, and is responsible for the continuing development and implementation for the strategic plan. Sabah Randhawa was named to the full post at the conclusion of a national search. Randhawa [...]

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) academy has been all-male for more than 55 years – but now it is going through major change. Women are now allowed to enrol on its aerospace engineering and fighter pilot programmes and are doing rather well. Male cadets are having to come to terms with the fact that masculinity [...]

The United States Educational Foundation has announced 120 scholarships for master’s and PhD level studies under its Fulbright/USAID Student programme for Pakistani students during the academic year 2006. Under the programme, female students will be given priority and the number of scholarships would increase every year, she added. She said in addition to academic work, [...]

The Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) credential is for technology professionals who have the skills to successfully implement a Microsoft product or technology as part of a business solution. At just 9 years old, Arfa Karim Randhawa , of Faisalabad, Pakistan, is one of the youngest MCPs in the world. She recently received her credentials from [...]

Sheikha Mohammad Hamoud Alhamdi, a 21-year-old from UAE, who has married a local of Karak and considers Pakistanis loving and caring, is learning Pashto to share Arabic folktales and stories with her in-laws. Ms Alhamdi is hopeful she would get a Pakistani citizenship like two Indian girls before her, a few months ago. “I am [...]

Lubna’s painting ‘Crows and Windows,’ recently won ‘Best in Show’ at the 2005 Sanctuary Art exhibit, a juried art show sponsored by the Massachusetts Audubon Society at the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary Gallery, for her reflection of personal connection to nature and the meaning of ‘Sanctuary.’ Ms. Agha has been in the U.S. for more [...]

In a lucid style, the learned professor who heads the gender studies department at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, explained six phases of feminism, from liberal feminism to the echo-feminism in present times. It started in the first quarter of the 19th century when women started talking about their basic human rights. Now when their equal status [...]

The next but not the least was the agreement on establishing a “Confucius Institute” between National University of Modern Languages (NUML) and China’s National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOTCFL). Under the agreement Chinese language will be taught in this Institute using a variety of methods including multimedia and the Internet. Teachers [...]