Karachi university BDS Professional examinations 2010

Karachi university annouced BDS annual exams schedule Karachi, Nov 7: Karachi university has announced that BDS First Professional Annual Examination-2010 will commence from November 11, 2009 and conclude on November 25. The timings are from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm and the venue is the Centre of Excellence for Women Studies, KU. Meanwhile Registrar KU [...]

Islamabad education city task force

Task force formed to make Islamabad education city Islamabad, Nov 7: The National Assembly (NA) was apprised on Friday that the government had constituted special task force and committees to make the federal capital education city. Replying to a question, Minister of State for Education Ghulam Farid Kathia informed the House that the project of [...]

Secretary Clinton Concludes Visit to Pakistan

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has completed a 3-day visit to Pakistan saying she underscored America’s desire to build a broad and deep partnership with Pakistan. Secretary Clinton said that partnership is based on mutual trust and respect that both combats violent extremists and strengthens Pakistan’s democratically elected government and civilian institutions to serve [...]

Still closed

Many schools in every province remain closed – not so much because of an extant threat but because of their inability to comply with the security requirements placed on them by police and government agencies. A circular sent out by DCOs to schools which have been categorized as ‘A-1’ security risks details the arrangements that [...]

New security plan for Peshawar schools

PESHAWAR: A new plan has been devised for the security schools in Peshawar. The private and government schools are reopening in Peshawar from November 2 (Monday). DCO Peshawar Sahibzada Muhammad Anees told Geo News that the schools will reopen from tomorrow. He said a new security plan has been chalked out for the schools under [...]

Four hurt as girls school blown up in Khyber Agency

PESHAWAR: At least four persons were wounded as miscreants exploded government girls’ high school building with explosives located in Khyber Agency on early Sunday, Geo news reported. According to FC sources, unknown miscreants blew up a building of government girls’ high school here, causing injuries to four pedestrians passing nearby at the time of incident, [...]

Hazara schools, colleges asked to boost security

MANSEHRA: The administrators of schools and colleges in Hazara have been asked to hire the services of ex-army personnel for the security of the students. Sources said the commissioner Hazara has sent letters to district coordination officers of all five districts of Hazara to boost security of public and private educational institutions when they reopen [...]

Educational institutions to reopen in NWFP from Nov 2

PESHAWAR: NWFP government has announced that all the educational institutions of the province will be reopened from November 2 (Monday). The educational institutions have been kept closed in the province for the past two weeks on security concerns.

Colleges principals allowed to use all funds for security

Rawalpindi : Rawalpindi Commissioner Zahid Saeed on Friday allowed the principals of 35 government colleges in the garrison city to use all available funds for security of their institutions. He was addressing a meeting held to review the security arrangements for all the 35 government colleges in the city, including 10 for boys and 25 [...]

Punjab university BA / BSc supplementary practical examinations

Lahore: The Punjab University’s (PU) Examination Department has announced new schedule for the practical examinations of BA and BSc supplementary examinations. The examinations, which were to begin on October 21, have been rescheduled to November 5, according to a spokesperson for the PU. The spokesperson said roll number slips had been dispatched to the candidates. [...]

Strategy to secure campuses soon: CM

Lahore-Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the security of educational institutions is a collective responsibility and joint strategy will be adopted with the consultation of the administration concerned and Private Schools Association in this regard. He was talking to a representative delegation of Private Schools Association who called on the CM at the [...]

Bayt.com and DIAC brings the Virtual Education Fair

Bayt.com and DIAC brings the first ever Virtual Education Fair in the Middle East, Asia and North Africa region. Several top institutes such as Robert Kennedy College, University of Manchester, Access MBA, Potential, University of Wollongong etc have already signed up as participants. Register for FREE at http://wwww.vefme.com- Virtual Education Fair will be live from [...]

Participate in first ever Virtual Education Fair to meet with Top Universities, Education and Training Providers

The Middle East’s first ever virtual education fair (VEF) was announced on Wednesday at Gitex by Dubai International Academic City (DIAC) in partnership with Bayt.com. Set to take place online from November 15 – 21 around the clock, VEF will link universities, colleges, training providers and consultants from across the region to those interested in [...]

Four killed in two blasts at Islamic University

ISLAMABAD: Twin suicide blasts tore through a university campus in Pakistan’s capital Tuesday killing flour people and injuring 29 others, as the military pursued a major anti-Taliban offensive in the lawless northwest. The bombing of Islamabad’s International Islamic University was the seventh major militant attack in just over a fortnight and the first since the [...]

Update on Suicide blasts at Islamabad’s Islamic university kill six

ISLAMABAD: A double suicide bombing at Islamabad’s International Islamic University on Tuesday killed up to seven people, including the two bombers, an administration official said. ‘Seven people, including two suicide bombers are dead, and 29 injured in the two attacks. Among the dead is one female,’ a senior administration official, Rana Akbar Hayat told AFP [...]

Islamic University Islamabad suicide blasts update

ISLAMABAD: Two female students have been killed and several others injured in twin suicide blasts in new campus of Islamic University Islamabad. The first suicide explosion happened in a cafeteria near girls hostel whereas another occurred in Sharia block few minutes later. According to SSP Tahir Alam, both were suicide blasts. Talking to Geo News, [...]

Education budget to be raised to 7pc of GDP: Zardari

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari, while emphasising the commitment of the PPP government towards the education sector, said on Friday that the education budget would be raised up to 7 per cent of the GDP in the next five years and the higher education budget would be increased by 20 per cent during this period. [...]

NED university entrance test 2009-2010

Karachi-The NED University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday conducted the entry test to select the eligible candidates for admissions for the academic year of 2009-10. Any mishap was not reported during the test, despite the fact that as many as 6,154 candidates were appeared in the test that was started on the given time [...]