Waseela-e-Taleem to be expanded in 50 districts

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has planned to expand the network of Waseela-e-Taleem (WeT) initiative to atleast 50 districts till the end of next year.
Currently the programme is facilitating 1.3 million children enrolled in primary schools in 32 districts across the country which would be raised to 1.6 million by June this up.

NTS qualifying teachers verification from tomorrow

The bio-metric verification of the government school teachers who were appointed after qualifying the NTS test will start in the 9 districts of Hyderabad division from March 27.
According to a notification of the Directorate of the Schools Education, Hyderabad Region, issued on Thursday the bio-metric verification of high, junior and primary school teachers would be carried out. The teachers of Badin, Jamshoro, Thatta and Sujawal had been asked to reach the directorate on March 27 from 10 am to 3 pm for the process.

HEC Directs Universities to ensure minimum Qualification

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has directed the universities and degree awarding institutions to ensure implementation of the Commission's decision to raise minimum qualification to 18 years of education, for appointment of Lecturers.

In a letter issued by HEC to Vice Chancellors and Rectors, they have been asked to ensure that minimum qualification for appointment of Lecturer should be MPhil / MS or equivalent degree i.e. 18 years, or Masters from a foreign University. Deadline given for decision's implementation is June 30, 2017.  

The Universities which have already adopted and implemented the decision have been appreciated and advised to continue implementing the decision.

Moreover, HEC has also extended the cut-off date for raising minimum qualification of Assistant Professors in universities/degree awarding institutions to the level of PhD, to January 1, 2018.  

HEC Stresses Women Empowerment through Higher Education

The Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan organized a daylong event entitled "Women Empowerment through Higher Education, Entrepreneurship and Socio-economic Development" to celebrate International Women's Day here at the Commission Secretariat on Wednesday.

Dr. Samina Amin Qadir, Vice Chancellor Fatima Jinnah Women University was chief guest of the ceremony which was also attended by Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, Chairman HEC, Dr. Arshad Ali, Executive Director HEC, Vice Chancellors, faculty members and students of various institutions.

AIOU marks World Poetry Day

Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) on the occasion of World Poetry Day on Tuesday pledged that it will fulfill its educational responsibility promoting literary culture in the country through academic and extra-curricular activities, in line with the teachings of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, a great poet and philosopher, says a press release.

The University has been focusing on the poetry of Dr. Iqbal and other contemporary poets while celebrating such occasions.

Prep class of AM Anglo Montessor graduates

Rawalpindi: AM Anglo Montessori School & College celebrated Graduation Ceremony of class Prep at the main campus.

The parents and students of prep class attended the function. During the function s Mahpara Amir ud Din, the founder of the school, spoke about the challenges to be faced by the children who are about to enter in the school section. She requested the parents to take time out to give individual attention to their children to help them to adapt to school life.

The function began with the recitation of Holy Quran. English speeches were delivered by the students. The children then performed on a number on rhymes. At the end certificates were awarded to the children dressed in graduation gowns and mortarboards

AIOU to bring drop-out students in educational net

Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Unicef at a consultative workshop held here on Wednesday agreed to deepen their collaborative partnership to bring drop-out students in the educational net through non-formal education (NFE).

The event was organised by the University’s Department of Distance, Non-Formal and Continuing education to formulate contents for NFE post graduate diploma course through mutual consultation. Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Shahid Siddiqui who presided over the workshop said the University would continue to collaborate with national and international institutions to promote literacy and to educate drop-out students, particularly females.

Misprinting in Malakand board's paper confuses students

Wrong questions and misprinting in question paper of grade-IX mathematics paper put thousands of students in trouble during the ongoing secondary school certificate (SSC) examination held under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Malakand here on Wednesday.

Sources said that grade-9 students had to solve mathematics paper on Wednesday, March 22. They said that question number 2, 4, 5 and 9 were missing some essential letters, due to which even the brilliant students were unable to solve the questions properly.

Pointer Basics

What is a Pointer?

A pointer is a variable that stores a memory address.  Pointers are used to store the addresses of other variables or memory items.  Pointers are very useful for another type of parameter passing, usually referred to as Pass By Address.  Pointers are essential for dynamic memory allocation.

Declaring pointers:

• Pointer declarations use the * operator.  They follow this format:

     typeName * variableName;
  
   int n;        // declaration of a variable n 
   int * p;      // declaration of a pointer, called p 
  

• In the example above, p is a pointer, and its type will be specifically be referred to as "pointer to int", because it stores the address of an integer variable. We also can say its type is: int*
• The type is important. While pointers are all the same size, as they just store a memory address, we have to know what kind of thing they are pointing TO.

    double * dptr; // a pointer to a double 
    char * c1;  // a pointer to a character
    float * fptr;  // a pointer to a float
  

• Note: Sometimes the notation is confusing, because different textbooks place the * differently.  The three following declarations are equivalent:

   int *p; 
   int* p; 
   int * p; 
  

  All three of these declare the variable p as a pointer to an int.
  

Character Sequence

The string class has been briefly introduced in an earlier chapter. It is a very powerful class to handle and manipulate strings of characters. However, because strings are, in fact, sequences of characters, we can represent them also as plain arrays of elements of a character type.

For example, the following array:

char foo [20];

is an array that can store up to 20 elements of type char. It can be represented as:

Arrays and Functions

Arrays and Functions

• Things to note about C-style arrays:
  • An array is not a type
  • An array is a primitive C-style construct that consists of many items stored consecutively and accessed through a single variable name (and indexing)
  • This is actually done by remembering the starting address of an array, and computing an offset
  • The name of an array acts as a special kind of variable -- a pointer -- which stores the starting address of the array
• An array can be passed into a function as a parameter
  • Because an array is not a single item, the array contents are not passed "by value" as we are used to with normal variables

Array Basics

Array Basics

Definition

An array is a series of elements of the same type placed in contiguous memory locations that can be individually referenced by adding an index to a unique identifier.

That means that, for example, five values of type int can be declared as an array without having to declare 5 different variables (each with its own identifier). Instead, using an array, the five int values are stored in contiguous memory locations, and all five can be accessed using the same identifier, with the proper index.
An array is an indexed collection of data elements of the same type.
1)  Indexed means that the array elements are numbered (starting at 0).

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, also known as CIIT, is a public research university in Pakistan. It is a multi-campus institute with its headquarters located in the urban area of Islamabad. Established by the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South which was established in Islamabad on 4 & 5 October 1994, the commission as of 2015 has 23 member state. The CIIT was established in 1998 with charter in August 2000.

Allama Iqbal Open University

Allama Iqbal Open University

Allama Iqbal Open University (Urdu: جامعہ علامہ اقبال‎) or AIOU is a public research university located in Islamabad, Pakistan. The university is the fourth world's largest institution of higher learning, with an annual enrollment of 1,121,038 students (as of 2010), the majority of them women, and Course Enrollment of 3,305,948 (2011). Established in 1974, it is also Asia's first open university with a strong emphasis on providing distance education in engineering, law, philosophy, natural and social science. It is considered the most attractive university in the country and has the most applicants per year. The university offers extensive undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programmes in various academic disciplines. After witnessing the success of Open University in the United Kingdom, the university was established as a public university in 1974. It is noted for its cost-effective policy to provide higher education at a minimum cost through a specialized university fund managed by the government.

Sukkur Board announces exam schedule for SSC-I, II

SUKKUR: The Sukkur Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) issued on Wednesday the schedule for annual examinations of the secondary school certificate part-I and II (Class-IX and X) in affiliated high schools of Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur and Naushehro Feroze district.

According to a handout, the examinations will start from March 28 and conclude on April 8 in which a total of 102,642 girls and boys will take part.