LAHORE:24 August: A number of students staged a demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club on Wednesday to press the authorities to retake Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) as its question paper was leaked. Carrying placards, the protesters demanded that the condition to appear in MDCAT for admission to medical and dental colleges should be withdrawn as only students of private tuition centres performed well in it because they got the question paper in advance.

LAHORE:24 August:School of Health Sciences at University of Management and Technology (UMT) Lahore inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Surraya Azim (Waqf) Hospital for future collaboration, training and practical exposure of medical students and faculty to knowledge transformation. UMT alleges BISE official running fake degree racket

LAHORE:24 august: Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) has honoured Punjab University College of Art and Design principal Dr Shahida Manzoor with an award in recognition of her contribution towards PNCA and Shakir Ali Museum.

LAHORE:23 august:Punjab University signed a memorandum of understanding with the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) to promote need-based standardisation, quality control education programmes and transfer of technology for industrial and socioeconomic development. PU teachers divided over VC’s appointment

LAHORE:23 august:School of Health Sciences at University of Management and Technology (UMT) Lahore inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Surraya Azim (Waqf) Hospital for future collaboration, training and practical exposure of medical students and faculty to knowledge transformation. UMT alleges BISE official running fake degree racket

Lahore:23 August: Two-week hands-on training of faculty members and one month training of DVM fourth year students for clinical skill enhancement completed at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore, on Tuesday. According to a press release, the participants were from Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (SBBUVAS) Sakrand, Sindh. Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad chaired the concluding session of the training programme and distributed certificates among the participants.

LAHORE: 23 august:While the reports kept circulating on Tuesday that the University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Syndicate had rejected the award of honorary degree to Federal Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, former student of UET, the university administration claims the syndicate has yet to take any decision.

Lahore:23 august: Punjab University (PU) and Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote need-based standardisation and quality control education programmes and transfer of technology to the industry for industrial and socio-economic development. According to the MoU, both parties would jointly initiate market-oriented research and development projects and other activities in the area of common interest, sharing their human and material resources. They would jointly organise training workshops, seminars and workshops.

Lahore:23 august:School of Health Sciences at University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore, on Tuesday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Surraya Azim (Waqf) Hospital for future collaboration, training and practical exposure of medical students and faculty involvement in knowledge transformation. UMT Director General Abid HK Shirwani and Iftikhar Chaudhry, member of the Surraya Azim Hospital Governing Body signed the agreement.

LAHORE:23 august:Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has condemned alleged financial corruption and administrative chaos in the name of Medical & Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) in Punjab and termed it unacceptable.

LAHORE:22 August:The Punjab government has decided to revert the changes made to the curriculum for the current academic year. The decision of the Punjab government was announced by School Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan at a press conference on Monday. The government also announced it will initiate two separate inquiries into the controversy of claims of removing chapters and topics relating to religious and national personalities.the news.

LAHORE:22 august: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) has written a application to the Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to probe rumours making rounds on social media that the Medical and Dental Colleges' Admission Test (MDCAT) 2017, held on Sunday, was leaked before its commencement. The university has categorically denied and condemned a malicious campaign on social media from some hidden elements and has asked the FIA to act against those spreading rumours about the paper leakage.

LAHORE:22 august: Due to multiple reasons, Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) has scrapped its original plan of establishing Baba Guru Nanak University (BGNU) at Nankana Sahib as the same would be established at Islamabad. The ETPB now has announced establishing BGNU main campus in Islamabad whereas sub-campuses would be established in other provinces.

LAHORE:22 august: Punjab Minister for School Education Rana Mashhood Ahmad has said that no major changes have been introduced to textbooks of class 1 to 10, published by the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook BOARD (PCTB) and dispelled the impression that certain changes were made in chapters on Islam, Pakistan and the Pakistan Army.