Saturday, February 11, 2017

صوبہ سندھ: موسم گرما کی چھٹیوں اور نئے تعلیمی سیشن کے شیڈول کا اعلان

میڈیا رپورٹس کے مطابق صوبہ سندھ کے تمام سکولوں کیلئے نئے تعلیمی سیشن کے شیڈول کا اعلان کر دیا گیا ہے۔ او لیول، اے لیول اور کیمرج سسٹم کیلئے نئے تعلیمی سیشن کا آغاز یکم اپریل، کالج کے طلبہ کیلئے یکم اگست اور آغاز خان بورڈ کے تحت چلنے والے سکولوں میں یکم مئی سے ہوگا۔ کلاس ون سے کلاس 8 تک کے امتحانات 15 مارچ سے پہلے مکمل کر لیے جائیں گے جبکہ تمام سیکنڈری سکول بورڈز میٹرک کے رزلٹ کا اعلان 31 جولائی سے پہلے کریں گے۔ یہ فیصلہ صوبائی وزیر تعلیم جام مہتاب حسین ڈاھر کے زیر صدارت سندھ اسمبلی بلڈنگ میں ہونے والے ایک اجلاس میں ہوا۔ اجلاس میں سیکرٹری ایجوکیشن سکولز جمال مصطفیٰ سید، سیکرٹری ایجوکیشن کالجز ڈاکٹر ریاض احمد میمن، آل سیکنڈری سکولز بورڈز کے چیئرمین اور دیگر حکام نے اس میٹنگ میں شرکت کی۔ اجلاس میں فیصلہ کیا گیا کہ طلبہ کیلئے موسم گرما کی چھٹیوں کا آغاز یکم جون سے 31 جون تک ہوگا جبکہ موسم سرما کی چھٹیاں شیڈول کے مطابق ہی ہونگی۔ اجلاس میں یہ بھی فیصلہ کیا گیا کہ تمام پرائیوٹ اور پبلک سکولز کم از کم ایک ہفتہ غیر نصابی سرگرمیوں اور سپورٹس کیلئے مختص کریں گے۔

PPSC Written Test Schedule for Different Post FEB 2017


PPSC Written Test Schedule for Different Post FEB 2017

PhD Zoology for in-Service Candidates (Old Scheme) 2017


UOM issues registration schedule for BA/BSc annual exams 2017

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: The University of Malakand (UOM) is inviting the applications for B.A/B.Sc Part-I & Part-II Annual exams 2017 from regular/late college as well as private candidates.

The application forms for the above mentioned exams are available at the official website of university. You can also get application forms through the link given below.

Sindh Government decides to hire 6,000 teachers in schools

Karachi: The Sindh Government has decided to employee 6 thousand teachers to overcome the shortage of teaching staff in Sindh Schools.

This approval was given at a meeting in Karachi, which was headed Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah.

While speaking on the occasion, the Sindh CM ordered to ensure the transparency as well as merit in the recruitment.

Furthermore, he has announced the ban on transfers of the teachers and instructed to achieve the target of opening 2 thousand new schools in the province before next month.

BISE Gujranwala board issues matric annual exams date sheet 2017

Gujranwala: Board of intermediate and Secondary Education, Gujranwala (BISE Gujranwala) has issued the final date sheet for SSC part 1 & 2 annual exams 2017.

According to the issued exams date sheet by officials of BISE Gujranwala board, 10th class annual exams will begin from March 1st, 2017 and these exams will continue till March 16th, 2017.

PBTE launches online fees challan form system

Lahore: Punjab Board of Technical Education (PBTE) on Thursday launched online bank challan form to receive all kind of fees.

The chairperson of PBTE Ms Saima Javed inaugurated the latest system in a ceremony. While speaking on the event, she said the complete examination system of the PBTE starting from registration up to issuance of diploma was completely computerized and now the bank challan system was also made online.

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Bahria University celebrates 17th Foundation Day

Islamabad: Bahria University (BU) Foundation Day falls on February 7. The university was established on February 7, 2000 by the Pakistan Navy through a Presidential Ordinance.

To mark this milestone, BU Rector Admiral (r) Tanveer Faiz HI (M) gave direction to all constituent units to celebrate University Foundation Day this year on February 7. In order to celebrate 17th Foundation Day, many activities were undertaken by the all campuses of Bahria University.

Strategic decision-making at business schools stressed

The two-day National Business Education Accreditation Council Deans and Directors Conference ended at a local hotel on Wednesday calling for strategic decision-making and synchronisation of internal operations at business schools.

The event brought together more than 100 deans and heads of departments of the nationwide business schools for strategic level discussions on how to increase the quality of business education in the country.

No change in vacation schedule: CM

KARACHI, May 22: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has announced that the schedule of summer vacation in schools and colleges will remain unchanged.

However, he added, he had not yet seen the summary of the education department's steering committee's recommendation for revising the timetable.

Education on the agenda: CM orders reopening of 2,000 ‘ghost’ schools

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah approved the recruitment of 6,000 teachers on merit and issued orders to reopen 2,000 schools by the end of March.

There are 5,384 closed schools in the province, of them 4,123 are viable and can be made functional, said education secretary Syed Jamal Shah, giving a briefing to the chief minister on Wednesday. Following the ‘education emergency’ that the chief minister (CM) imposed, Jamal said that 1,461 schools have been reopened.

Schools operating in residential areas to be closed

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Defence was apprised on Wednesday that 32 unauthorised educational institutes operating in residential parts of Westridge in Rawalpindi, and that they would be closed within three months.

The meeting was chaired by Senator Salahuddin Tirmizi who was informed by defence officials that the cantonment has five cantonment board schools, 23 government schools, and 32 unauthorised private schools were also operating there.

GCU receives Rs1 million donation for scholarship

Lahore: An outstanding old Ravian and lawyer, Taffazul Hussain Rizvi, on Monday announced a donation of rupees 1 million to the Endowment Fund Trust of Government College University (GCU-EFT) for starting a scholarship in the name of his parents.

As per the press release, “Mr & Ms Talib Hussain Rizvi Golden Scholarship” will be given to a deserving student every year on merit basis and will cover his/her university fee and also hostel expenditures.

Higher Education Commission halts 24 PhD programmes

Islamabad: Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) has closed down 24 PhD academic programmes of International Islamic University (IIU) Islamabad for not fulfilling the required criteria set by the government.

The HEC also ordered to stop all academic activities in these programmes till the fulfillment of the set requirements.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

NBEAC brings together business schools for strategic level discussions

Islamabad: Bringing together more than 100 academic administrators of the nationwide business schools for strategic level discussions on how to increase the quality of business education in the country, the National Business Education Accreditation Council’s two-day annual event, Deans and Directors Conference, opened at a local hotel on Tuesday.

Among participants were deans, directors, heads of departments, senior faculty members and others associated with higher education business units for strategic decision making and synchronisation of internal operations.

According to NBEAC Chairman Dr Hasan Sohaib Murad, the conference focuses on the balance required between global paradigms and the need to customise business education in the country to meet local needs.

“Both businesses and business schools in Pakistan – small or large, urban or rural – face competition for products and services created by the spread of information technology and globalisation. However, our context, culture and heritage, demands a certain degree of indigenisation in management practices and in business education.

“This year’s conference is designed to increase the effectiveness of business education in Pakistan through debate on the issues and through related refinements in the accreditation process,” he said.

Dr Hasan said the conference’s objectives were to evaluate the extent to which business education in Pakistan was preparing graduates to contribute to the local and global economic activities; identify unique themes and specialisations for business education in Pakistan keeping local needs and global trends in perspective; discuss the balance between indigenous and international curriculum content for effective business education in the country; share the experiences of education leaders from Pakistan and other countries of creating a balance between indigenisation and globalisation of business education in their countries, and identify ways in which accreditation could be used as a framework for addressing the challenges associated with convergence and divergence.

He said the conference would help identify the critical steps to align education with business needs, and identify and recommend actions to the emerging challenges in business education. Established by the Higher Education Commission in 2007 to ensure good quality in business education degree programmes, the NBEAC is a national level authority to organise and carry out comprehensive programme of accreditation.

Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal, who was also in attendance at the conference, declared education imperative for development.

He said he had a very special relationship with business education as he took ‘refuge’ in academia for a living after being ‘unemployed’ in the wake of the Musharraf military coup and taught business administration at a major educational institution for seven years.

“Education is the process, which gives people social, mental, intellectual and physical and skills and makes them productive for their society. Likewise, development is a process, which caters to the social and economic well-being of the people. In this light, if education and development are not aligned, societies can’t see the desired results of their efforts for progress,” he said.

The minister said if the investment in education sector didn’t contribute to the people’s welfare, it was also deemed to be going to waste. He said Pakistan had two major challenges i.e. poor investment in education in the past and the education offered wasn’t aligned with the process of production and development.

The minister said today was the age of super change and therefore, we all have to align ourselves to the new forces of changes. “This is not the age when the world is run by boundaries or walls. Today is the age of globalisation, regionalism and branding for progress. I hope business schools of the country will understand all that and formulate their courses and reform curriculm and teaching practices accordingly to produce youths, who can help the country become a leading Asian economy,” he said.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Mushahid Hussain Sayed, who was also present on the occasion, said the multibillion dollars CPEC project was the biggest opportunity in history for Pakistan to develop itself.

He said currently, the global balance of economic and political powers were shifting from the West to the East promising a better future for Asian countries, especially Pakistan. “According to my calculation, the fall of the US began in 2003 when they conducted an unlawful invasion on Iraq. The 21st century is the century of Asia,” he said.

Mushahid Hussain Sayed said Pakistan’s future was very bright and the CPEC project was a golden opportunity for Pakistanis to build better tomorrow for themselves, Sino-Pak relations and the region.

Declaring education the key to success, he also stressed the need for giving the people across the country access to education. Noted among other speakers were Higher Education Commission Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmad, chief economist Dr Nadeem Javaid and associate professor at the FAST School of Management, Islamabad, Dr. Sadia Nadeem.