
International universities and higher education Nov 09: An ordinary youth from an affluent family was able to enroll in an Ivy League institution. Earning degrees in political science and public administration, he returned to seek appropriate career options. With the tag value of his degrees...
Nov, 2007: Britain's performance in a league table of the world's top universities has improved, but the US still dominates. Four of the top 10 are British and the rest American. Harvard is top and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge joint second. University College London breaks into the top 10...
Lahore: Pakistani students will be able to study for some of the best UK degrees without travelling abroad and could undertake one, two or three years of undergraduate studies in their country and then transfer to the UK at whatever point they felt comfortable, Geoff Evans, project director for...
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Rawalpindi, Dec 12: The Ministry of Labour and Manpower’s Directorate of Workers Education Regional Centre, Rawalpindi, has organised a free computer training course for labourers working in the industry and their children to equip them with state of the art technology, says a press release issued...
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Goverment to upgrade education system Islamabad, Dec 15: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Social Sector and Co-Chairperson Pakistan Education Task Force Begum Shehnaz Wazir Ali has pledged to devise an effective mechanism to ensure the upgradation of the educational system and meet modern day...
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Overhead bridges a security threat for universities: Lahore: Overhead bridges, most of them located near educational institutions in the city, pose a serious security impediment as the police and the institutions' administrations continue to haggle over who should be responsible for the security...