Faisalabad’s largest two-day science festival for schoolchildren kicked off on Thursday at the University of Agriculture Expo Centre, aimed at igniting a spark for science and discovery among students in the region, and to promote better quality of learning available in government schools.
The Punjab government has initiated the process of appointment of vice chancellors at public universities in the province, beginning with Punjab Higher Education Department (HED) advertising a request for applications for the vacant post of University of Sahiwal VC.
The cold war between the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and provincial educational authorities is seeing another battle, as both Punjab and Sindh provinces have directed vice chancellors of public sector universities in their jurisdiction not to attend a VCs’ conference called by HEC in Lahore.
Stressing on the need for revisiting education standards at religious madrassas across the country, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday said religious seminaries must offer more than theological education to pupils.
A recently established state-of-the-art facility for research in coal technology, energy and environment engineering was formally inaugurated on Wednesday at Punjab University (PU) New Campus.
Fifteen hundred students graduating in various educational courses were officially conferred degrees as the University of Management and Technology Lahore held its 14th convocation ceremony on Tuesday, November 14.
The month-and-a-half-long strike of protesting students of Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) has finally come to an end with the restoration of expelled students, as well as those rusticated by the administration.