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ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) invites Pakistanis to apply for the prestigious 2024 Fulbright Student Program. Funded by the United States Government, the Fulbright Program in Pakistan is the world’s largest in terms of financial contribution.  The highly competitive and merit-based scholarship covers graduate study, including tuition, maintenance, insurance, and air travel. The application is available at www.usefp.org, with a deadline of April 12, 2023.    USEFP welcomes applicants in all disciplines, including energy, water, agriculture, health, education, environmental science, and climate change. While clinical medicine is not included in the Fulbright Program, non-clinical public health applications are encouraged.  The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required for all applicants. Under the new scoring system, a minimum score of 145 is required in the Verbal and Quantitative sections of the exam. “The Fulbrig...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 07:  High tuition fee of Associate Diploma Program (ADP) and BS programs at Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) public sector colleges in comparison to the provincial institutions is the main cause of departure of students from Islamabad to provinces leaving very few admissions at ICT colleges. According to official sources, students at ICT colleges are charged a fee around Rs. 25000 in the first semester while around  Rs. 15,000 in the subsequent semesters. Comparatively the fee structure of public colleges ranges from Rs.5000 to Rs.10000 per semester at provinces which is much lower than the ICT colleges.  Many students who aspire to take admission in the ADP or BS programs prefer to go to the colleges situated in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Nazir Ahmed lecturer at Islamabad Model Postgraduate College H-8 college said, “Higher fees mean that study in Islamabad is limited to those students that can afford to pay for ADP/BS programs.  It also increase...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Higher Education Commission (HEC) has asked the students desirous to return to China for resumption of their studies to register till August 10 which is the last date of form submission. Earlier the HEC had given the deadline of July 20 for the students who stranded due to COVID-19 for returning to China to resume their studies however extended the deadline till August 10 to facilitate the students who were unable to register. According to an official of HEC, the information will be shared with the Chinese authorities for further procedure and verification of the submitted documents. The students can get information about the procedure to register online through the website on www.hec.gov.pk. It is pertinent to mention here that around 100 students were sent to China through a special flight of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) to continue their education. A large number of students enrolled in Chinese universities were sent back to Pakistan by the Chinese governme...

ISLAMABAD, Jul 16: Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) on Saturday decided to start the admission of public medical colleges from October 17, 2022, concluding the entire process alongwith special seats by December 31, 2022. The decision was made at the meeting of the National Admissions Scheduling Committee of the PMC with consensus which was held here to decide the admission schedule for 2022-23 for medical and dental colleges.   It was also decided that admissions of all private medical colleges will be concluded by January 31, 2023.   Thereafter, admissions to public dental colleges will be concluded by February 14, 2023 and finally, admissions to private dental colleges will be concluded by February 28, 2023.  Colleges and universities as per regulations are at liberty to initiate the application process at any time after May 2022.  The MDCAT exam result will be declared on October 7, 2022 with over 200,000 students across Pakistan and internationally reg...

Jul 15:The federal government has allocated Rs 500 million for establishment of four knowledge parks across the country during the current financial year. The government had allocated Rs 6330.696 million in the PSDP for the financial year 2022-23 for ongoing and new schemes of the Information Technology and Telecom Division. As per the details, Rs 5,380.696 million was allocated for 31 ongoing schemes, while the allocation for five new schemes was Rs 950 million. Among the ongoing schemes, Rs 719 million was earmarked for Technology Park Development Project Islamabad, Rs 320 million for High Impact Skill Bootcamp Islamabad and Karachi, and Rs 300 million each for Protection and Upgradation of Pak-China Phase-I OFC Project for establishment of Cross border connectivity project AJK and GB, Upgradation of Existing TDM Based Backhaul Microwave with IP Based Backhaul Microwave Network in AJK and GB (SCO) and Upgradation of Transmission Network and Replacement of Optical Fiber Cable in AJK a...

RAWALPINDI, May 24: Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RBISE) on Tuesday postponed Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Annual Examination, 2022 scheduled to be held on May 25. According to a notification, issued by Higher Education Department, Lahore, Government of the Punjab, owing to unavoidable circumstances in Rawalpindi Division, paper of Pakistan Studies, P-II, SSC annual examinations, 2022, scheduled to be held on May 25 has been postponed. Next date will be announced by the board in due course of time through electronic and print media, the notification said. To a question the RBISE spokesman said SSC annual examinations 2022 were being held under foolproof arrangements.  He informed that 17,796 students were appearing in the exams which had started in four districts of the division in accordance with the schedule announced earlier.  388 exam centers including 142 for boys and 139 for girls had also been set up besides 107 combined centers, he add...

On 24 January 2022,  Ehsaas is launching the Ehsaas Taleemi Wazaif app to facilitate Ehsaas  beneficiaries to enroll their children in the Ehsaas Taleemi Wazaif (School stipends) programme. The android app can be accessed at Google play store. Ehsaas Taleemi Wazaef app can be  accessed at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pk.gov.bisp.enrollment. Ehsaas Education Stipends (school stipends) has been rolled out to support education of 10 million children in all 160 districts. The programme includes primary, secondary and higher secondary school stipends. Children aged 4 to 22 years from all Ehsaas eligible families can enroll for the school stipends. The three-year budget of the programme is Rs. 100 billion. Primary school going boys get a quarterly stipend of Rs. 1,500 and girls Rs. 2,000; secondary school boys receive Rs. 2,500 and girls Rs. 3,000; and at higher secondary level, boys get Rs. 3,500 and girls Rs. 4,000. The Ehsaas Education Stipends programme w...

Zuhr prayers are made mandatory in government schools in KP.  It has been directed to take a break during Zuhr prayers in schools. All districts will take a break for Zuhr prayers according to their respective working hours.  Notification: The  country’s progress linked with education. In Pakistan, 32% of primary students were out of schools comparing 21% boys, 60% girls above primary level were out of school comparing 50% boys while only 13% of girls reached class 9. Education was also equally important for the Muslims to excel in the world otherwise they would lag behind in the development.

Admission opportunity in Pakistan for overseas Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is provided an awesome opportunity for Overseas Pakistani & international students by offering admissions in 30 academic programmes. The University is now offering admission in Matric, FA and I.Com programs for Spring, 2022 semester for international students while admissions in other educational programmes will be offered from March 1. Students from across the world can take admission in these programs online.  In this context, the University has arranged for online teaching to these students. Moreover, their examinations will also be conducted through online system.  Overseas Pakistani/international students can download the admission forms and prospectuses from the University website (http://online.aiou.edu.pk), for more detail, the international students can contact at the email of International Calibration and Exchange Office overseas @ aiou for more details. .edu.pk or phone numbers 92...

✓Review of Urdu University  Building : Beautiful campus with new building and location.  Location: location is bit remote as general transport is not available in that area. Education:  For educational wise, this uni have to set standard yet.  Administration: Administration is worst. they have ethical problem not all but mostly. No check and balance.  What should improve! Everything is available in university just lack in quality administration. Favourism and nepotism is on top here.  Final verdict: Beside all that negative there is still exit some quality teaching staff in electrical, phy and cs department. Suggestions for university: There must be a plan for transport structure to facilitate the student of uni.