17 faculty members okayed for GCU

LAHORE: The Government College University (GCU) syndicate on Monday approved the appointment of 17 senior faculty members, including four professors and five distinguished professors.

The syndicate presided over by Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Hassan Amir Shah also sanctioned a new academic programme, BA (Hons) in Sociology.

Lecturers, professors demand higher salaries

QUETTA: The Balochis­tan Professors and Lectu­rers Association (BPLA) has called upon the government to pay extra salary to those lecturers who were appointed to the boys’ colleges but are performing duties at the girls’ colleges.

According to BPLA president Prof Saeed Mandokhel, the association has been struggling for the constitutional rights of teachers in Balochistan for several years.

GB teacher among top 10 finalists for Global Teacher Prize

“We’ve all had teachers who have inspired us, who have made a difference to our lives. Teachers have the power to make or break lives. A great lesson can inspire a passion for a subject that lasts a lifetime, while lacklustre teaching can kill any desire for learning. Teachers who make a significant difference in their students’ lives - sometimes against all odds - deserve to be celebrated. The Global Teacher Prize does just that, awarding $1 million to an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to their profession.”

This is how the Global Teacher Prize blog explains the reason for the award and Pakistan can be proud that one of its teachers is among the ten nominated for this prestigious prize.

Salima Begum teaches at the Elementary College for Women in Gilgit, Pakistan. She has helped create awareness amongst parents regarding girls’ education and its benefits. To engage her students, Salima believes that classroom activities should correspond closely to real-life situations.

Salima was born in a remote village in Pakistan. Conditions in her own education were cramped and she was fortunate to complete higher secondary level. She believes strongly in students ‘constructing’ meaning for themselves through the information they receive and holds that classroom activities should correspond closely to real-life situations. She has helped create awareness amongst parents regarding girls’ education and its benefits, pioneered a strategy of mentoring in the community and encouraged aspiration in the feeder schools that send pupils to her.

Students' Week concludes at Air University

Students’ Week 2017 has concluded in a graceful ceremony here at Air University main campus here, says a press release.

Chief guest of ceremony, Air University Vice Chancellor Air Vice Marshal (r) Faaiz Amir said that the students’ week of the year was full of life with multiple events including sports, athletics, debate, poetry, singing, writing and many other competitions.

Books issue to students commencing from 01-April

Constants and Literals

Constants
Constants are expressions with a fixed value.

Literals
Literals are used to express particular values within the source code of a program. We have already used these previously to give concrete values to variables or to express messages we wanted our programs to print out, for example, when we wrote:
a = 5;
the 5 in this piece of code was a literal constant.
Literal constants can be divided in Integer Numerals, Floating-Point Numerals, Characters, Strings and Boolean Values.

Variables, Datatypes

The usefulness of the "Hello World" programs shown in the previous section is quite questionable. We had to write several lines of code, compile them, and then execute the resulting program just to obtain a simple sentence written on the screen as result. It certainly would have been much faster to type the output sentence by ourselves. However, programming is not limited only to printing simple texts on the screen. In order to go a little further on and to become able to write programs that perform useful tasks that really save us work we need to introduce the concept of variable.

Let us think that I ask you to retain the number 5 in your mental memory, and then I ask you to memorize also the number 2 at the same time. You have just stored two different values in your memory. Now, if I ask you to add 1 to the first number I said, you should be retaining the numbers 6 (that is 5+1) and 2 in your memory. Values that we could now for example subtract and obtain 4 as result.

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Students advised to take part in sports to stay fit

PESHAWAR: Government College, Peshawar, principal Prof Fazle Subhani has asked the students to focus on both studies and sports activities to defeat evils in the society.

He speaking at a ceremony organised here on Saturday for distribution of prizes among the winners of the games held under the aegis of the University of Peshawar for year 2017. He advised the students to take part in different sports activities to remain healthy and keep themselves away from immoral acts.

UoP to hold national conference on Ghani Khan’s paintings

The department of art and design, University of Peshawar (UoP) will convene a national conference on the art of Ghani Khan.

Speaking at a study circle titled ‘Ghani Khan -- the man and poet’ at Bacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation Centre here on Saturday, Prof Sher Ali, the chairman of the department, that said his colleagues intended to explore the most hidden aspect of Ghani Khan’s life.

The panelists discussed various aspects of Ghani Khan’s life and literary, political and artistic services. They also critically evaluated celebrated poem titled ‘Aey Zama Wanta’ (O’ My homeland) of Ghani Khan and threw light on its historical, social, cultural and political implications.

AIOU offers Scholarships for 75% Marks Students

The students who got 75% or more marks in their academic year can submit their scholarship application to the director though the relevant department of AIOU.

Last Date 6 March 2017

Sukkur IBA bids farewell to 240 graduating students

SUKKUR: The Sukkur Institute of Business Administration (IBA) held its fourth convocation on Saturday. A total of 240 graduates were awarded degrees in masters and bachelors of business administration, electrical engineering, computer science and software engineering and education.

Four gold medals, one silver and one bronze medal were awarded to high achieving students in different academic programmes.

Sindh minister for education Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar and chairperson of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr Mukhtar Ahmed were chief guests at the event.

In his welcome address, Sukkur IBA dean and director Professor Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui thanked the guests, graduating students, parents and media for showing their interest and commitment to education in Sindh.