The Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) is all set to expand the community college program in more colleges across Punjab.
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Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asghar Zaidi has said that that the Government College (now University) Lahore has played a vital role in promotion of culture and literature of Punjab and overall socio-economic development of Pakistan; its decades-old effective model of student societies is needed to be replicated in other higher education institutes.
A mega screening and vaccination campaign to make Islamia University of Bahawalpur, the first Hepatitis free university of the country began this morning at Baghdad ul Jadeed Campus.
A meeting of Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) Punjab Chapter was held in University of Engineering and Technology Lahore in which a large number of elected representatives from all Punjab participated. The crux of the meeting and press conference were to save higher education.
Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) skills summer camps, for the first time, are being set up across Punjab, says a press release.
Chairman TEVTA Hafiz Farhat Abbas was holding a meeting of officials at the TEVTA Secretariat. He said that for the first time TEVTA skills summer camps are being set up across Punjab. In summer camps 19 short courses will be started for boys while 16 for girls. These courses included mobile repairing, motorbike mechanic, beautician, fashion designing, professional cooking, web designing and others.
Summer camp classes will begin on June 12, he said. He also advised the operation wing to maintain similar quality standards in all districts and that no compromise should be made on quality. Chairman Hafiz Farhat Abbas also said that the government is considering all resources for employment of youngsters of Punjab.
With a vision “to empower our youth with a new focus on Quality Demand Driven Skills and to develop Economic Opportunities through Entrepreneurship and Job Placements at Local and International Level”, TEVTA is a premier skill provider with its strong presence at every Tehsil and district of the Punjab in 150+ disciplines to transform the skill landscape of province through demand drive skills of the highest possible quality.
The new Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in Punjab has planned to turn the process of appointment of vice chancellors on its head, with the minister hinting at revamping the entire process to mimic the one in practice in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
Although 10 Pakistani universities have been included in the recently launched Times Higher Education (THE) ranking titled Emerging Economies University Rankings 2018, just one university from Pakistan has found a place among the top 100 institutions.
Terming its work for reforms in Punjab’s public sector schools successful, the Department for International Development (DFID) United Kingdom on Monday said it would continue supporting education reforms in Punjab until 2020.
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 Punjab Chief Minster’s Special Monitoring Unit (SMU) has launched Pakistan’s first rural Innovation Hub for youth economic development in district Layyahin in collaboration with youth development organisation Bargad and Oxfam .