The federal government has decided to offer need-based scholarships to deserving students from the funds of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). These scholarships from BISP would be channeled through the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to needy and talented male and
Punjab Minister for Higher Education Raja Yassir Humayun Sarfaraz proposed that there should be no age limit for students wishing to enroll at universities , during a consultative meeting on defining the roadmap for community colleges in Punjab. The meeting
Higher Education Development in Pakistan (HEDP) project was successfully negotiated between the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the World Bank in May 2019, for a $400 Million IDA credit support. Subsequently, the project was approved by the World Bank Board
U.S. Consul General Colleen Crenwelge joined Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar and more than 70 talented young Pakistani students in celebrating the US government-funded Merit and Needs-Based Scholarship Programme (MNBSP), which supports deserving but financially constrained students who could not
Ammar Sheikh The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) made education and education reforms the cornerstones for its election manifesto and campaigns, terming its plans for reforming the sector “the most ambitious education agenda in Pakistan’s history”. Yet, the first full budget
Arsalan Haider The Punjab government has allocated a total amount of Rs 383 billion for various projects, departments and institutions of education sector in the Punjab Annual Budget 2019-20.
The Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PU ASA) has unanimously expressed strong resentment over massive cut in the funding of higher education in the federal budget. In a press statement, PUASA President Prof Dr Mumtaz Anwar Chaudhry has called upon
University of Karachi Registrar Professor Dr Saleem Shahzad has announced admissions in MPhil, PhD, MS and MD Program 2019. Admissions for the year 2019 are available in various departments of faculty of arts and social sciences, faculty of science, faculty
Finland tops the list of European countries deemed the most resilient to misinformation in classroom milieu, per findings of the Media Literacy Index, compiled by the Open Society Institute Sofia.
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