KPK Establishes Regulatory Body to Put a Check On Private Schools

Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education for KP, Muhammad Atif Khan announced that a new private school regulatory authority has been established in the province. The authority would help put a check on educational institutions who overcharge parents when it comes to fees, according to the minister.

The authority would also keep an eye on the schools, analyzing their performance in all aspects. The provincial education minister announced this at the Mardan Press Club after taking oath and joining the new cabinet.

Sindh University Outsources Degree Printing To Combat Fake Degrees

Following the scandal of fake degrees, Sindh University (SU) has officially announced that they will no longer print academic degrees themselves.

On Thursday, a meeting was held which was chaired by SU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat. In the meeting it was agreed upon that SU will be handing over the printing duties to Pakistan Security Printing, Karachi.

Microsoft’s New Windows 10 S is Aimed at Schools

Microsoft announced a new version of Windows 10 at an event today, called the Windows 10 S. The “S” signifies schools as Microsoft tries to recapture the classroom market share in the US, a market that has been dominated by Google’s Chromebooks over the past few years.

Windows 10 S is a slimmer version of the OS designed to focus on classrooms and teaching environment.

Education sector neglected due to inept governance

The broken windows, doors and low and weak boundary walls of a government girl primary school located in the centre of the federal capital tells a story of indifferent attitude of the authorities concerned.

The lack of basic facilities in the school at Farash Town proved that the incumbent government’s claims of bringing revolutionary changes in education sector was nothing but mere a travesty of reality.

Curtin University Alumni chapter launched in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Margaret Adamson launched last night in Pakistan an alumni chapter of Australia’s Curtin University.

Curtin University has more than 600 alumni in Pakistan, many of whom are working in high profile and influential positions in public, private and the not-for-profit sectors. The Alumni Chapter in Pakistan aims to work closely with Curtin University Australia and current and potential employers in Pakistan to increase the employability of its graduates.

Inauguration the Faculty of Education at FJWU

US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director John Groarke, Chairman of the Higher Education Commission Dr Muktar Ahmed and State Minister of Federal Education and Training Dr Balig ur Rehman inaugurated the new $1.5 million ‘faculty of education’ building at Fatima Jinnah Women’s University (FJWU), constructed by USAID to attract the brightest young Pakistani women to the teaching profession.

“Our shared goal is to invest in the next generation of doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs and leaders,” Groarke said in his remarks.

Govt giving special attention to promotion of education

Minister of State for Federal Education and Professional Training Engr. Baligh ur Rehman along with Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director John Groarke Tuesday inaugurated the new $1.5 million Faculty of Education building at Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU).
The building has been constructed by USAID to attract best and bright young Pakistani women in the teaching profession.

Lack of education

Pakistan is suffering not only from economic problem but there’s a mild diversity in case of Education. Lack of education is the main reason behind the backwardness of Pakistan. Poverty has led many homes to discourage their children from going to school. Education?al infrastructure, ghost schools, culture of absenteeism, multiplicity of educational system, gender disparity, lack of technologies, bad governance and poorly-trained teaching staff are the major reasons behind the education crisis.

Govt committed to cause of educated, healthy Pakistan

Islamabad: While inaugurating a two-day education expo at the Pakistan-China Friendship Centre here on Tuesday, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb praised the Jang Media Group for organising the event to the benefit of local residents, especially youth.

“I congratulate the Jang Group for bringing the country’s leading educational institutions under one roof and thus, providing the residents of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and adjoining areas from students to parents to teachers with access to a wide range of information on education and career development,” she said.

The News Education Expo 17 in Lahore from today

LAHORE: The News Education Expo’17—a mega education event by the Jang Media Group, is starting at Expo Center, Johar Town, on Saturday (today).

The two-day expo will continue without any break from 10am to 7pm with free entry to all on Saturday (today) and Sunday (tomorrow). Like the previous years, the event is likely to attract large number of visitors, particularly prospective students and their families, as dozens of local and national educational institutions and education consultants are taking part in the expo.

Laravel - Overview

Introduction
Laravel is a MVC framework with bundles, migrations, and Artisan CLI. Laravel offers a robust set of tools and an application architecture that incorporates many of the best features of frameworks like CodeIgniter, Yii, ASP.NET MVC, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, and others.

Laravel is an Open Source framework. It has a very rich set of features which will boost the speed of Web Development. If you familiar with Core PHP and Advanced PHP, Laravel will make your task easier.

SEO Glossary of Terms

Absolute Link
An absolute link is one where the destination href value of the anchor tag is fully qualified and includes all of the following:

• the transfer protocol: http://
• domain name: www.example.com
• file name: my-page.html

SEO - Optimized Metatags

There are two important meta tags:

• Meta description tags
• Meta keyword tags

Some search engines may display the meta description as a part of the search results, but the meta keyword tags should not appear in search results.

The general consensus among SEO experts is that metatags are dead.

SEO - Optimized Keywords

A keyword is a term that is used to match with the query a person enters into a search engine to find specific information. Most people enter search phrases that consist of two to five words. Such phrases may be called search phrases, keyword phrases, query phrases, or just keywords. Good keyword phrases are specific and descriptive.

The following concepts related to keywords, help in optimizing the keywords on a web page.

SEO - Design & Layout

The website design and layout gives the first impression about your site. There are sites which are too fancy and regular net surfers just reach those sites and come out even without creating a single click.

Search engines are very smart but after all, they are software and not human being, who can read the content of their interest. If you make your site too complicated, then the search engine would not be able to parse the content of your site properly, and finally indexing would not be efficient, which results in a low rank.

The actual page content should have a keyword density of about 10% and should weigh in at about 200 words - but there are as many opinions about this as there are SEO experts.