Tuition Fee for TEVTA Students waived off by govt
Punjab Provincial Minister, Mian Aslam Iqbal, has revealed that the government has waived a year’s worth of tuition fees for more than 100,000 students registered with TEVTA. A meeting for the announcement was held at the TEVTA secretariat and was attended by Chairman TEVTA, Ali Salman Siddique, and other members of concerned provincial divisions. As […]
First merit list for admissions issued by University of Health Sciences
The University of Health Sciences (UHS) has issued the first open merit list for public medical and dental colleges of Punjab. There are 3013 open merit seats in 17 medical colleges of Punjab and 176 open merit seats in three government dental colleges. This year, the highest merit was 94.6227 percent of King Edward Medical […]
Lahore Medical Colleges abolish admission quota for other provinces
The leading government medical colleges in Lahore have eliminated the admission quota for the applicants from provinces other than Punjab, and have added it to the open merit category. The colleges that have made this change include King Edward Medical College University (KEMU/KEMC), Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC), Fatima Jinnah Medical University (FJMU), the Service […]
HEC wont tuition charge fee from disabled students
The President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi, said on Monday that the Higher Education Commission (HEC) is currently working on a new policy for disabled students pursuing post-graduate studies. The new HEC policy aims to provide free education and better banking facilities to students with disabilities and special needs who are undertaking programs in higher […]
Punjab University announces exam schedule for MA/Msc Part-1
The Punjab University (PU) on Tuesday issued the written examination schedule for MA/MSc Part-I annual examination 2020. According to a notification, “Punjab University Examinations Department has issued written examination date sheet of MA/MSc Part-I annual examination 2020. The said exam will commence from March 5, 2021”. The exams will be conducted between 5 March 2021 […]
HEC invites research proposal for CPEC Collaborative Research Grant
Higher Education Commission (HEC) has invited research proposals from faculty members of higher education institutions for CPEC Collaborative Research Grant (CPEC-CRG) 2021. Ph.D. and FCPS/MCPS/FRCS faculty members working on regular and contract basis in public and private universities that are members of the CPEC Consortium of Universities are eligible to apply for CPEC-CRG. CPEC-CRG is […]
HEC’s Decision to Scrap Two-Year Degrees rejected by Sindh
The Sindh government is at odds with the HEC once again. This time over the Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) new policy that abolished two-year bachelors’ programs across the country. The HEC had announced in November last year that two-year BA and BSc degrees will no longer be accepted by the Commission after 2020. It meant […]
Plan of Action to Tackle Unemployment suggested by Senate Committee
A legislative governing body comprising senators and ministerial representatives has recommended the facilitation of Ph.D. degree holders and government workers to mitigate the unemployment crisis across Pakistan. The meeting was convened on Wednesday under the Senate’s blueprint for Federal Education Professional Training, National History, and Literary Heritage, and chaired, in principle, by Senator Engr. Rukhsana […]
Deteriorating Education Standards in The City exposed by Karachi’s matriculation results
The Board of Secondary Education Karachi’s (BSEK) matriculation exam results for mathematics have exposed the deteriorating education standards in the city. As per the data released by the BSEK, the majority of the candidates had received 50 percent or lesser marks in Physics and Mathematics. A breakdown of the statistics revealed that of a total […]
SSC and HSSC Exam Pattern changed by Sindh
In a significant development, the Government of Sindh has reduced the duration of the SSC and HSSC examinations from three hours to two hours for the academic year 2020-21.Addressing a press conference outside the Provincial Assembly on Tuesday, the provincial Minister for Education, Saeed Ghani, announced that the duration of the examinations has been reduced […]