Over 70pc of girls in Shangla, Kohistan out of school

SHANGLA: Over 70 per cent of girls between five and 16 years are out of school in Shangla and Kohistan districts due to lack of facilities, infrastructure and poverty, according to the District Education Rankings Report released on Saturday by Alif Ailaan, a non-governmental organisation.

According to data compiled by the NGO, Shangla is ranked 120 of the 145 districts of Pakistan, while it ranks 23 of the 25 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The report said that almost 83 per cent of the total government schools in the district catered only to the primary level needs. There are 723 government schools in the district of which 603 are primary schools. Of these schools, 73 per cent (527) are for boys and 27 per cent (196) for girls.

Two-day conference on future of education begins

ISLAMABAD: Discussions, debates, workshops and presentations marked the first day of a two-day conference that opened on Saturday, all of which aimed to understand how external forces such as geopolitics, technology, art, culture and the environment are shaping society and pose new directions for the future of education.

The conference, titled ‘A World of Tomorrow’, began at the Pak-China Friendship Centre and was organised by Beaconhouse as part of their School of Tomorrow (SOT) conference series.

FG Technical Public School student bags first position

INTER SCHOOLS STORY WRITING CONTEST

Islamabad: Iftikhar Shahzad, student of 10th class has made his teachers and school proud by securing first position in inter schools story writing competition. Iftikhar is student of FG Technical Public School No-3 (Second shift-boys), Gracy Lane Chaklala, Rawalpindi.

Number of students participated in inter school co-curricular activates competition in which Iftikhar Shahzad has got first position in story writing competition. Iftikhar while talking to media said that this is the success of his teachers specially his teacher Ms Tahira and Muhammad Ashfaq, who always encourages him to take part in competitions and make him confident.

Training of millions of youth planned

Islamabad: Our target is to train millions of unemployed young boys and girls in diversified trades so that they are able to earn their livelihood and become useful citizens of the country.

This was said by NAVTTC Executive Director Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema during a visit to the POF Technical Training Institute, Wah, on Monday. He inspected the workshops and laboratories of the institute and asked trainees and instructors about the quality of training.

He advised students to focus on the training to be in a better position to secure jobs both at local and international market. Principal of the institute, Col (r) Muhammad Riaz briefed the NAVTTC executive director about the activities of the institute. POF chairman Lt-General Omar Mehmood Hayat later presented memento to him.

Non-formal education must for higher literacy rate

Islamabad: Without non-formal education, we will not be able to achieve 90 per cent literacy rate & 100 per cent enrolment as targeted in the vision 2025 of Pakistan to achieve universal primary education. For this purpose National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) has been tasked to prepare a realistic action plan with appropriate programme interventions and necessary resources to achieve its targets for a literate society for Pakistan.

This was observed by the chairperson NCHD and former Senator Razina Alam Khan while sharing with senior management on Monday regarding her experience of two weeks visit of Japan as head of Pakistan education delegation to study the Japanese education system.

No high school in major Mohmand locality

GHALANAI: Utmanzai, a far-flung and backward yet major locality of Mohmand Agency’s Pandiali tehsil, has no high school forcing most local residents to abandon education after passing primary and middle school exams.

The people told Dawn that the area had a low literacy rate.

Agri engineering degree being launched at university

MULTAN: The Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture has decided to launch a four-year BS programme of agricultural engineering.

The decision was taken at the ‘agro industrial stakeholders’ discussion forum’ of the university on Monday which was held to set direction for the establishment of new faculty of agricultural and bio-systems engineering and technology.

Vice-Chancellor Dr Asif Ali said the cost of production could be reduced and crop yield could be increased by adapting modern mechanisation techniques.

PU gets last chance to contest plea against equivalance dept

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday gave the last opportunity to Punjab University’s counsel to contest a petition challenging functioning of equivalence department of the university.

During the hearing, Justice Atir Mahmood also observed that prima facie the functioning of the university’s equivalence department was illegal.

The judge directed the university’s lawyer to come up with a reply on the next hearing, otherwise, the court would announce its decision. The hearing was adjourned until March 14.

Students get graduation degrees at convocation

LAHORE: The third convocation of Government Degree College for Women, Wapda Town, was held here on Monday.

Around 400 students of the 2011-16 sessions were conferred graduation degrees by Higher Education Minister Syed Raza Ali Gilani. He also gave away seven gold, six silver medals and as many bronze medals to students.

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.