BHAWALPUR:20 August: Vice Chancellor Islamia University of Bahawalpur Engr Prof Dr Athar Mahboob Monday said steps were underway to make the varsity a shining institution at national and international level. He said the syllabus would be restructured to make compatible with modern needs. Research benefiting society would be encouraged, he maintained. The VC said excellence in both teaching and research will surely help to contribute to social and economic development.

BAHAWALPUR:20 August: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shozab Saeed Monday chaired a meeting of the district development committee. The meeting reviewed the development project of constructing additional classrooms in schools being operated under the Punjab Education Initiative Management Authority. The meeting was briefed that additional classrooms will be constructed in 25 government schools with a cost of Rs 82 million.

LAHORE:20 August: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) and Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine (PSIM) jointly organised an event here at the varsity on Monday to celebrate Independence Day and launch monsoon tree plantation campaign. University of Health Sciences former vice chancellor Maj Gen (R) Prof Muhammad Aslam gave a presentation on “Journey of Pakistan’. He said that Pakistan came into being with the sacrifices of hundreds and thousands of Muslims. He added that the journey continues and the nation has yet to reach its destination.

Lahore:20 August:Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore on Monday announced the results of class-9 Annual Examinations 2019 according to which overall pass percentage is 52.07 per cent. About 271,447 candidates appeared in the examination out of which 141,350 passed the exam. Meanwhile, because of huge traffic on the board’s website after the result was declared on Monday morning students faced difficulty in accessing the results online for quite some time.The news.

LAHORE:20 August: Punjab Minister for Higher Education Raja Yasir Humayun has said that the concept of one subject based universities would be amended and college sector would be improved through systematic amendments. He said this was addressing the 353rd meeting of Punjab University Senate at Senate Hall, Old Campus here Monday. PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmed, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr Saleem Mazhar, Registrar Dr Muhammad Khalid Khan and Senate members participated in the meeting.

LAHORE: 20 August:A large number of senior PU teachers on Monday took to The Mall to condemn Indian atrocities in the Held Kashmir. The teachers' rally was led by Punjab Minister for Higher Education Raja Yasir Humayun in which PU Vice Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmed, Pro Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Saleem Mazhar, deans of various faculties, heads of various departments and a large number of senior faculty members participated in the rally.

LAHORE:18 august: Students from the Beaconhouse School System across Pakistan achieved a record-breaking total of 17,997 A*s and As in the 2019 CAIE O and A Level exams, making this the highest total ever for any school network in Pakistan. With this achievement, Beaconhouse students continue the tradition of setting new benchmarks!

HAFIZABAD:17 August: A landlord allegedly tortured a school headmaster for stopping him to tie up his cattle on the premises of the school. Reportedly, after summer vacation, Headmaster of Government Primary School Riaz Ahmad came in his school where he saw that some cattle were tied up there. He called accused landlord Zafar Iqbal and forbade him to tie up cattle in the premises of the school, which infuriated the accused. Later, the accused landlord allegedly tortured the school headmaster.

LAHORE:17 August: University of Health Sciences Vice-Chancellor and former vice-chancellor of King Edward Medical University, Prof Dr Faisal Masood (Tamgha-e-Imtiaz) passed away here Friday.

LAHORE:17 August: School Education Department (SED) Punjab on Friday issued a notification vis-à-vis promotion of 146 schoolteachers from BS-18 to BS-19 (Male-General Cadre). According to the details, these promotions are based on the recommendations of the Provincial Selection Board-II approved by the chief minister.The news.

LAHORE: IN the wake of Higher Education Commission (HEC)’s recent decision to abolish BA/BSc and BCom degrees from the upcoming academic session, PU on Friday issued a notification announcing a change in the nomenclature of the degrees into Associate Degrees. According to the notification, the nomenclature of two-year BA/BSC and BCom degrees would be Associate Degree in Arts, Associate Degree in Science and Associate Degree in Commerce, respectively, for regular and private students.

LAHORE :10 August: UNIVERSITY of Nottingham, UK awards scholarships to Pakistani students. In a recent event organised by NUST in collaboration with Falcon Education and Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd, seven students from National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) have been awarded postgraduate scholarships at the University of Nottingham.

LAHORE :09 August: Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Thursday organised an awareness walk in connection with Prime Minister’s Clean and Green Pakistan Programme.

LAHORE :09 August: Dr Khalid Sanjrani, Chairperson of Urdu Department of Government College University (GCU) Lahore, has been bestowed with the Best Researcher Award by the Higher Education Commission (HEC). Dr Sanjrani won the Best Researcher Award in the category of Arts, Humanities and Languages for his research paper on the topic related to Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Heidelberg University, Germany. Dr Sanjrani received certificate and cash prize from HEC Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri at a ceremony in Islamabad.The news.

LAHORE :09 August: The Lahore High Court on Thursday suspended the order under which two female teachers were sacked from the job by education department. Justice Muzamil Akhtar Shabir issued this order on the petitions of Nadia Javed and Ambreen Ilyas and sought replies from district education officer and secretary education.