Zevar-e-Taleem Program Raises Monthly Stipend to Encourage Girls

Punjab Government’s new program, called “Zevar-e-Taleem”, wants to tackle the lack of girls in secondary schools. The total worth of scholarships to be distributed under this program is Rs. 6 billion.

This was announced by Chief Minister Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal Lahore.

C++ Interview Question and Answers - I

1. What is C++?

Ans: C++ is created by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as an extension of C, C++ is an object-oriented computer language used in the development of enterprise and commercial applications. Microsoft’s Visual C++ became the premier language of choice among developers and programmers.

Federal Urdu University

The Federal URDU University of Arts, Science & Technology (Urdu: وفاقی جامعہ اردو‎; alternatively known as FUU), is a public research university primarily located in the residential Gulshan town of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The university has two satellite campuses; the central campus in Karachi while the other campus is located in Islamabad.

The university offers wide range of academic programmes in undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral studies. The university is noted for its engaging research in fine arts, languages, engineering, social sciences, and philosophy. With an tentative approximated of ~13,500 enrolled students currently attending the university, it is one of the largest institution in the country and is one of the top university in "general category" ranked by the HEC.

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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: