News

Aspirants to Retake Medical Colleges’ Admissions Test on Oct 29

Aspirants to Retake Medical Colleges’ Admissions Test on Oct 29   Following the confirmation of leaking of medical and dental colleges admission test (MDCAT) 2017 exam papers and the subsequent cancellation of results by the Lahore High Court (LHC), the

News

Education Without Learning: WB Warns of Impending Doom

Education Without Learning: WB Warns of Impending Doom Education without learning. The situation is all but too familiar in Pakistan. Students going through the grind of sub-standard education, grade after grade, without ever learning anything constructive. The focus is on

News

SHC Questions Where $70m for Girls’ Education Go. Yes, That’s $70 Million!

SHC Questions Where $70m for Girls’ Education Go. Yes, That’s $70 Million! The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the federal government to provide details of how a US pledge of $70 million, or over Rs 7 billion, meant for

News

No Varsity Asked to Annul Admissions: Punjab Higher Education Minister

No Varsity Asked to Annul Admissions: Punjab Higher Education Minister The past few days have seen a confusion building over the fate of admissions in some degree programmes offered by 18 private universities in Punjab. However, Punjab Higher Education Minister

News

Punjab Higher Education Dept Likely to Withdraw Notice Barring Admissions

Punjab Higher Education Dept Likely to Withdraw Notice Barring Admissions A directive from the Punjab Higher Education Department issued on Friday has sent rumor mills churning across the academia, however, no one appears to know why the decree has been

News

University Olympics? The Sooner, The Better

University Olympics? The Sooner, The Better Aitchison vs Lawrence, Cambridge vs Oxford, Harvard vs Yale; these and thousands of other pairings of names define some of the fiercest and religiously-maintained rivalries among educational institutes around the world. The annual fixtures

News

SHC Orders Reopening of Aisha Bawany College

SHC Orders Reopening of Aisha Bawany College Putting days of unease and speculation to rest, the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday directed authorities to reopen Aisha Bawany College in Karachi. The court also directed law enforcement authorities to assist

News

PM Abbasi says Education Government’s Top Priority

PM Abbasi says Education Government’s Top Priority Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday said education was at the forefront of the present government’s agenda. Abbasi is in New York to attend the 72nd session of United Nations General Assembly.

News

End of Line for Esena Foundation High School

End of Line for Esena Foundation High School They say all good things come to an end. Back in the 1990s, a number of rear windshields on cars across Lahore boasted an all but familiar sticker. It read Esena is

News

Interior Minister, University Heads Take Up Rising Extremism at Campuses

Interior Minister, University Heads Take Up Rising Extremism at Campuses Radicalisation creeping into country’s higher education institutes has become a burning issue following the failed assassination attempt on MQM MPA Khawaja Izharul Hassan. Demands for countering this horrendous trend have