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Category Archives: General Educational, Social, and Related News and Views
Gujrat van fire victims buried amid sobs, tears
Gujrat van fire victims buried amid sobs, tears GUJRAT: Funeral prayers for the children and a teacher, killed in Gujrat incident, have been offered while 10 bodies were buried in local graveyards amid sobs and tears. As many as 16 children and a teacher were killed when their school bus caught fire in Mangowal area [...]
Brazilian artist exhibits at Tanzara Gallery – Brazilian ambassador says art bridges gap and brings people closer
Brazilian artist exhibits at Tanzara Gallery - Brazilian ambassador says art bridges gap and brings people closer ISLAMABAD: Tanzara Gallery, in collaboration with the Embassy of Brazil opened a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Brazilian artist Dimax. The gallery owner Noshi Qadir curated the exhibition, titled “conflicting forces”. The opening was attended by diplomats, [...]
‘Disintegration’ opens at Expression Art Gallery – Curator says the themes, styles of paintings and use of medium are unique
‘Disintegration’ opens at Expression Art Gallery - Curator says the themes, styles of paintings and use of medium are unique LAHORE: The exhibition at Expressions Art Gallery is receiving tremendous response by visitors, art lovers and renowned people. National College of Arts (NCA) former Principle Nazish Attaullah inaugurated the exhibition titled ‘Disintegration’. A total of 31 [...]
Exams during announced vacations – Private schools urged to revise exam schedule
Exams during announced vacations – Private schools urged to revise exam schedule LAHORE: Teachers have urged private schools to revise their announced schedule of first-term examination, which are going to start after the government’s announced summer vacation schedule. Office-bearers of the Punjab Teachers’ Union (PTU) on Saturday in a statement criticised the policy of private [...]
Schools summer vacations in Karachi
Schools summer vacations in Karachi Karachi: Schools across Sindh will remain closed from June 14 to August 13 on account of summer vacations. The announcement was made by Sindh’s secretary education. Last year, summer holidays for the province were held from July 1 to August 31.
Summer vacation in Rawalpindi schools to start from June 1
Summer vacation in Rawalpindi schools to start from June 1 Rawalpindi: All public and private schools in Rawalpindi would be closed down from June 1 for summer vacation. The Punjab caretaker government Thursday issued a notification to this effect. As per notification, summer vacation will commence from June 1 due to scorching heat and schools [...]
City School students celebrate Mother’s Day
City School students celebrate Mother’s Day Islamabad: The prize distribution ceremony of ‘Sports Frolics 2013′ and ‘Mother’s Day Special’ event were celebrated. Students of The City School E-11 Nursery, F-11 Nursery and F-11 Junior branches participated in the events, says a press release. The event started with the recitation and translation from the verses of [...]
Summer break in schools from June 1
Summer break in schools from June 1 Lahore: Public and private schools will remain closed for summer vacation from June 1 to Aug 15, as already notified in the annual academic calendar. The Punjab School Education Department has already notified the annual academic calendar that includes summer vacation from June 1 to Aug 15. Department’s [...]
Two-day Children Literature Festival kicks off – Children’s Literature Festival (CLF)
Two-day Children Literature Festival kicks off - Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) ISLAMABAD: A two-day Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) started here on Friday at the Pak-China Friendship Centre to promote reading, creativity and critical thinking among the children. The first-ever children literature festival in the capital has been organised by Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) and Oxford University Press (OUP), [...]
Summer art classes to start at Jharoka Gallery
Summer art classes to start at Jharoka Gallery ISLAMABAD: Jharoka Art Gallery (JAG) will start its summer art classes for art lovers and students for learning the basics of art during the summer vacations in the first week of June. These classes of six weeks duration are aimed at engaging the students of all age [...]
Dutch envoy for boosting early child development
Dutch envoy for boosting early child development ISLAMABAD: The Ambassador of Netherlands, Gajus Scheltema on Saturday participated in the inauguration of Children’s Literary Festival in Islamabad where was presented with a display copy of a wonderful new children’s book, entitled ‘Laddu is born’. Laddu is a character created by illustrators and writers from Pakistan, based [...]
Parents, students demand summer vacations from 1st June in Islamabad – Rawalpindi
Parents, students demand summer vacations from 1st June in Islamabad – Rawalpindi ISLAMABAD: Students and their parents have demanded the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) to announce summer vacations from the start of June in the educational institutions due to extreme heat wave conditions prevailing in the country. It has become unbearable for the school-going [...]
Grenade attack at school injures three
Grenade attack at school injures three KARACHI: Unknown culprits hurled a hand grenade at a school in Orangi Town on Friday that injured three children. According to police, unidentified miscreants hurled a hand grenade at a private school through a classroom window, injuring three students in the blast. SSP West Asif Aijaz Shaikh told that [...]
Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) to confer peace award on women rights activist
Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) to confer peace award on women rights activist KARACHI: Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) will confer Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award for 2013 on Sunila Abeysekera, it has been announced. The jury appointed by PILER made the decision in favour of [...]
International Day for Biological Diversity – Seminar highlights importance of water, biodiversity
International Day for Biological Diversity - Seminar highlights importance of water, biodiversity ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change marked the International Day for Biological Diversity 2013and organised a seminar to highlight the significance of water and biodiversity across the country. Ministry of Climate Change Secretary Syed Muhammad Ali Gardezi said that providing and sustaining water for [...]
French ambassador inaugurates thesis display at Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design PIFD
French ambassador inaugurates thesis display at Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design PIFD LAHORE: Ambassador of France Philippe Thiebaud, on Thursday inaugurated the “Thesis Display” at Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design. He appreciated the work of students and hoped that graduates will enter the local as well as global market whereby contributing new ideas and [...]
Private schools turn blind eye to govt directives – Health experts warn of risks to children’s health if they were sent to schools during sizzling summer
Private schools turn blind eye to govt directives - Health experts warn of risks to children’s health if they were sent to schools during sizzling summer LAHORE: Government notification for summer vacations from June 1 across Punjab, coupled with simmering heat and epidemic of measles, have failed to stop private schools who have daringly announced holding [...]
World Turtle Day observed – Clean beaches a step towards conserving marine species
World Turtle Day observed - Clean beaches a step towards conserving marine species KARACHI: In order to commemorate the World Turtle Day WWF – Pakistan under its Water and Environmental Sanitation Improvement project in collaboration with Bahria University – Karachi campus organised beach cleaning at Sandspit, Hawkesbay. At least 50 students from Bahria University, community members [...]
Abasyn University striving for affordable education
Abasyn University striving for affordable education Islamabad: Abasyn University, Islamabad, Vice Chancellor Dr. Jamil Ahmad has said that if one thinks about private colleges and universities, by and large, the first thing that immediately crosses one’s mind is quality education, but with this comes the worry of high tuition fees. “However, there’s a university in [...]
Mobilink Foundation and UNESCO sign agreement to enhance the ‘SMS Based Literacy’ programme
Mobilink Foundation and UNESCO sign agreement to enhance the ‘SMS Based Literacy’ programme Lahore: Mobilink Foundation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have signed an agreement to enhance the award winning ‘SMS Based Literacy’ programme. The ‘SMS Based Literacy’ programme uses Short Messaging Service (SMS) to impart education to learners across [...]
Media urged to inform public about sexual harassment
Media urged to inform public about sexual harassment LAHORE: There is a dire need to implement laws against harassment of women at workplace so that they could play their due role in the stream of national development in an effective manner. This was stated by Aima Mehmood, Executive Director of Working Women Organisation, a non-governmental [...]
Students admonished against cheating in exams in Karachi
Students admonished against cheating in exams in Karachi KARACHI: District Municipal Corporation (DMC) East Administrator Samiuddin Siddiqui stressed the need to curb cheating in examinations while visiting the examination centre at Khatoon-e-Pakistan Government College for Women. Siddiqui visited the college here on Tuesday, accompanied by Assistant Commissioner Jamshed Quarters Adnan Mehmood. He said on the [...]
International day for Biological Diversity- Habitat loss of endangered species on the rise in Pakistan
International day for Biological Diversity- Habitat loss of endangered species on the rise in Pakistan KARACHI: Deforestation, soil erosion coupled with water-logging have hastened the rate of extinction of range animals – bird, reptiles, mammals, fish and plant species – which are already endangered due to climate change, cautioned environmental experts. The nature conservationists have expressed [...]
Govt Delhi School students protest denationalization
Govt Delhi School students protest denationalization Karachi: Students at the Government Delhi School for Boys and Girls staged a protest at their playground on Monday. “We will not give away our school. We do not accept denationalisation,” they chanted. This was where Raza Haroon and Khwaja Izhar-ul-Hasan, senior leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, studied. [...]
‘Here and Now’ goes on display at Lahore Art Gallery
‘Here and Now’ goes on display at Lahore Art Gallery LAHORE: Exhibition of five contemporary artists titled ‘Here and Now’ inaugurated on Monday at Lahore Art Gallery. Many artists and art lovers were present on the occasion. The exhibition included art works by Mohammad Ali Talpur, Hasnat Mehmood, Muhammad Zeeshan, Adeela Suleman and Nausheen Saeed. [...]
Australia a major study destination for Pak post-9/11
Australia a major study destination for Pak post-9/11 Islamabad: Australia has emerged as the first choice for Pakistanis wanting to go overseas for education due to soft visa regulations, lower tuition and lodging expenditure, international recognition of degrees and friendly environment, according to a leading educational consultant of the country, said Saad Mehmood, resident director [...]
Pakistani universities showcase fuel-efficient vehicles
Pakistani universities showcase fuel-efficient vehicles Rawalpindi: Top universities from Pakistan unveiled their hand-built fuel-efficient vehicles for the Shell Eco-marathon Asia at a launch ceremony held at NUST in Rawalpindi. This event has put Pakistani teams on track for the competition at the Sepang F-1 track in Kuala Lumpur in July 2013. There, they will compete [...]
Electricity outages hit HSSC students hard
Electricity outages hit HSSC students hard Rawalpindi: Unscheduled electricity loadshedding is creating lots of problems for the students of Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) as they are unable to focus on their ongoing final examinations, which began on Saturday. Fans in almost all examination centres remained powered off due to power outages, as helpless students [...]
Libraries in Islamabad colleges in dismal condition
Libraries in Islamabad colleges in dismal condition lslamabad: Libraries are a historic source of knowledge for students. But a tour around Islamabad reveals that students at Islamabad colleges have little in the way of libraries and books. Mohammad Hanif, a student of a federal government college, was assigned a task by a teacher to inquire [...]
Discussion on national issues held at Tech Club
Discussion on national issues held at Tech Club LAHORE: National scholars and intellectuals threw light on various national issues in the post election scenario at the Tech Club here on Sunday. Mowahid Hussain Shah, eminent policy analyst, columnist and author, said the division of Punjab province and degrading Pakistan Army are very dangerous tendencies. “We [...]
Admission Open in Class XI Session 2013-14 at Saleem Nawaz Fazaia (PAF) College PAF Base Masroor Mauripur, Karachi
Admission Open in Class XI Session 2013-14 at Saleem Nawaz Fazaia (PAF) College PAF Base Masroor Mauripur, Karachi
Admission Open in Class XI in Pre-Engineering, Pre-Medical, and Commerce Groups at Hamdard College of Science and Commerce, Madinat al-Hikmah, Karachi
Admission Open in Class XI in Pre-Engineering, Pre-Medical, and Commerce Groups at Hamdard College of Science and Commerce, Madinat al-Hikmah, Karachi
Unabated use of plastic bags in Islamabad – Official says Ministry of Climate Change is going all out to discourage use of non-degradable bags
Unabated use of plastic bags in Islamabad - Official says Ministry of Climate Change is going all out to discourage use of non-degradable bags ISLAMABAD: Despite a ban on production, selling and usage of plastic bags due to the harmful effect on environment, they are being used in the federal capital. The shopkeepers are seen handing [...]
Men must respect the opposite gender
Men must respect the opposite gender KARACHI: In this male dominated society, man has to provide equal rights and space to women, otherwise violence will increase rapidly, said Sindh Information and Archives Minister Noor Ul Huda Shah. She shared these views while speaking at a seminar organised by a local NGO, Madadgar. She further added [...]
50 students to travel to US under exchange programme
50 students to travel to US under exchange programme ISLAMABAD: Pakistani students, who are learning English through the US-sponsored English Access Microscholarship Program, and their teachers met on Friday with US Embassy Public Affairs Officer Peter Brennan to discuss their upcoming trip to the United States. In the coming weeks, 25 students and 25 teachers [...]
Young IT wizard wins silver medal in int’l competition
Young IT wizard wins silver medal in int’l competition ISLAMABAD: A young IT wizard, studying in grade-9, from Lahore has won silver medal in the e-biko International Project Olympiad held recently in Ankara, Turkey. Muhammad Abdullah Abid, son of, Muhammad Ismail Abid, a student of PakTurk School Lahore developed software ‘Rush Hour Controller’ which can [...]
Child marriages compromise girls development
Child marriages compromise girls development KARACHI: Minister Women Development and Human Rights Anis Haroon has said that child marriage not only is a violation of human rights and compromises the development of girls, but also results in biological and physiological complications. This she said while presiding a meeting organised for the cause of early marriages [...]
Oxford University Press (OUP) event to promote reading habit
Oxford University Press (OUP) event to promote reading habit Karachi: The Oxford University Press (OUP), Pakistan, will organise a programme “Dosti Kitabon Sey” here on May 17. An official of OUP Pakistan said here on Wednesday that the event is meant for youngsters in the age group of four to 10 years and aimed at promoting [...]
World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature campaigns for environmental education
World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature campaigns for environmental education LAHORE: World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature in collaboration with Sui Northern Gas Pipelines LTD (SNGPL) organized an environmental education activity titled “Spellathon”at local school. School of International Studies in Science and Arts Principle Syeda Saleem, Senior Media Consultant SNGPL Jawad Ashraf and WWF Pakistan’s Corporate [...]
Islamabad Model School for Girls IMSG G-9 students clinch top positions in exams
Islamabad Model School for Girls IMSG G-9 students clinch top positions in exams 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 [...]
Education vital for survival: Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi
Education vital for survival: Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi LAHORE - Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) is playing an important role in equipping the children of poor families with education. Presiding over a meeting at Chief Minister’s Secretariat Wednesday, the chief minister said, no doubt, education was the path to [...]
Pakistani, French museums to preserve natural species together
Pakistani, French museums to preserve natural species together ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Museum of Natural History and the Paris Museum of Natural History will soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to join hands for preserving natural species. The Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) has already inked a MoU with Centre Science, Orleans-France for arranging and co-producing [...]
Teachers protest against ‘torture’ by returning officers – Hundreds gather at Diyal Singh College
Teachers protest against ‘torture’ by returning officers - Hundreds gather at Diyal Singh College LAHORE: Professors and lecturers of Punjab colleges protested against the returning officer of NA-119 for allegedly torturing a college professor on election day. About hundred professors and lecturers belonging to different public colleges gathered at Diyal Singh College and held emergency meeting [...]
Philosophy and poetry on canvas
Philosophy and poetry on canvas KARACHI: VM art gallery has organised a colourful painting exhibition titled ‘Tolerance’ by Faiza Shaikh, featuring philosophy and Sufi poetry. Almost 23 paintings are on display at the gallery. Sufism and mysticism inspire her paintings, while the whirling dervish are prominently depicted in her works. One of the paintings, ‘In [...]
Teachers speak up against election duty
Teachers speak up against election duty Lahore: Teachers have openly spoken about the ordeal of doing election duty. “We have passed through terrible times during the last 15 days, waiting at training sessions, collecting materials and conducting polling,” said Punjab Teachers Union (PTU) central president Sajjad Akbar Kazmi. Teachers say they were made to suspend [...]
Teachers training programme helpful in improving quality of education
Teachers training programme helpful in improving quality of education LAHORE: A 5-member high level delegation of the British Council led by its UK-based Chief Executive Martin Davidson visited a private girls school affiliated with the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) under its Foundation Assisted School (FAS) programme in Baghbanpura. Other members of the delegation included Stephan [...]
Int’l Day of Families on 15th May
Int’l Day of Families on 15th May ISLAMABAD: International Day of Families will be celebrated across the globe, including Pakistan, on May 15 under the theme “Advancing Social Integration and Inter-generational Solidarity”. The day promotes the importance of families as the essential unit of society among masses and provides a chance to government, organisations and [...]
Mother’s Day celebrated in Islamabad
Mother’s Day celebrated in Islamabad ISLAMABAD: People across the globe including Pakistan celebrated Mother’s Day on May 12 (Sunday) to share their sentiments and express profound love for their mothers. Mother’s Day is a celebration honouring mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in [...]
Lahore observes Mother’s Day
Lahore observes Mother’s Day LAHORE: Dwellers of the provincial capital observed Mother’s Day by paying tribute, expressing profound love and spiritual devotion to mothers, by giving cards, flowers and other items. Many citizens wished their mothers, grandmothers and stepmothers through text messages and emails whereas number of people presented surprises including cards, flowers, chocolates, meals [...]
USAID provides scholarships to victims of terrorism in FATA, KP
USAID provides scholarships to victims of terrorism in FATA, KP ISLAMABAD: The U.S. government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has awarded five educational scholarships to children affected by terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Over the next three years, the USAID will provide a total [...]
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