News from July 2009

PMDC registering more women than men

If the number of medical and dental graduates registered by the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) over the last one-and-a-half years is anything to go by, then women continue to be on the march.
From January 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, women kept alive the years-old tradition of securing more PMDC registrations of MBBS [...]

Students wishing to study abroad, beware! FIA has raided the office of a travel agency.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has raided the office of a travel agency, arrested its owner, and seized forged documents. The FIA seized a large number of passports, photocopies and original national identity cards, forged stamps of embassies, banks, doctors and officers, cheque books, bank statements, sponsor letters, letters of admission to foreign universities, [...]

HEC to curb plagiarism UoP demands rent

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has taken a serious note of reports of academic thefts, also known as plagiarism, and constituted a taskforce to curb this menace.
The initiative has been taken on the direction by Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Incharge HEC and Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Social Sector.

Larkana board SSC part II examination result

Results of the annual examination 2009 results of Secondary School Certificate Part-II (Science and General group) were announced on Sunday by Larkana Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.
In Science Group, among boys, Ali Jan Burdi of Public School Larkana stood first and Bilal Ahmed Tunio of Public School Larkana stood second. The third position was [...]

AIOU expanding network to facilitate students

Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is all set to expand its distance education network to provide access to maximum number of students, particularly those living in the far-flung areas.”The new education policy envisages enrollment of all children in schools for a better future of the country,” AIOU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mehmoodul Hassan said.
He said [...]

Date Sheet luanched of LLB part II and III in sargodha universtiy

Date Sheet luanched of LLB part II and III in sargodha universtiy .

Pakistani Educators Learn New Strategies for Teaching English

“What’s an example of a strategy you want me to use when I teach prepositions?” Dr. Jack Levy asks a group of 14 teacher educators from Pakistan completing a semester of ESL education studies at George Mason University.
They answer, “cooperative learning,” a technique in which students are divided up in groups so they help each [...]

Pakistani PhD students in doctor degrees YMCA ground encroachment

The students of Pakistan who are completing their doctoral degrees at different universities of Turkey have decided to leave their studies incomplete and return to their countries.
The students held a meeting at Ankara in order to discuss the matter. During the meeting, it was decided that all the Pakistani students, studying under the cultural exchange [...]

FBISE SSC exams resluts declared Girls have bag top positions

The Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) on Monday declared the results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Part-II examinations, with girls excelling in both science and humanities groups by clinching the top positions.
Overall pass percentage remained 81.77 per cent for the examinations held in March-April this year. The pass percentage for regular [...]

Matric (general) exams: External candidates do better than regular students

Only 224 – or 0.74 per cent – of 30,417 regular and private students obtained Grade A-1 in the Secondary School Certificate part-II (class X) general group annual examinations 2009, the results announced on Monday by the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) showed.
The overall pass percentage in the exams is 62.23 per cent, which [...]