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For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a... 
The legendary Oxford interview — during which a university academic invites a prospective undergrad into her study, hands him a cup of tea and ruthlessly probes the limits of his intelligence — is often cited as the scariest part of... 
The World Bank announced the approval of a $550 million loan for Pakistan, to be used in education and energy (Natural Gas) sector by the government at Federal and Provincial levels. Punjab government will have access to $350 million, which it will... 
Google’s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer most commonly associated with the development of the fastening device that revolutionised the... 
LAHORE: Lahore University of Management Sciences is preparing to launch a new Technology for the People Initiative (TPI) at LUMS, with financial coordination to be received by Google Inc. The idea of the TPI is to nurture technology... 
ISLAMABAD: Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving “executive functioning” psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking, and delaying gratification than those in a school relying on milder disciplinary measures such as time-outs.... 
SAO PAULO (AP) — Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they’re cutting classes, the city’s education secretary said Thursday. Twenty thousand students in 25 of... 
The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi took a leap as it inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian School of Business (ISB) to provide executive education in Pakistan. A spokesperson of IBA Karachi said in a... 
Home to 4,000 people and overlooking the strategic Straits of Hormuz that Iran has threatened to close, Kumzar village has a thousand year-old language of its own that no one else on earth understands. Nestled on the northernmost... 
Pakistani students seeking to acquire a Visa for UK will go through newly formed language based tests after border checks revealed that almost 40 per cent of student applications from Pakistan contained false or misleading information. The British... 
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission, alongside the Aurat Foundation and the Acid Survivors Foundation, sponsored a panel discussion on Tuesday in order to educate the people of Pakistan towards the eradication of violent crimes such as acid attacks... 
The Pakistan, government’s unabashedly open call for global companies to provide Web filtering technology has been met with an unusual civil society campaign. A group based in Pakistan that calls itself Bolo Bhi wrote directly to eight companies that make... 
News reports speculate that more than 30 students were jailed and presented to a judge in Faisalabad, after getting caught in act while cheating in their Matriculation examinations. The students belonging to Faisalabad Governement High School were caught... 
The Higher Education Commission released its first ever criteria for top ten universities list along with the rankings, today. Initiative of QS ranking was taken up by HEC with the objective to promote a culture of participating in the world university... 
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has... 
FAISALABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday announced Rs 300 million for establishment of an IT University in Jaranwala. Addressing a public meeting at Jaranwala near here, he said the Varsity would bring a revolution in... 
An art exhibition was held at Koel Gallery in Karachi on the 9th of February featuring 85 different artists, each displaying a single piece of their art. Renowned artists such as Amean J, Asim Butt, Tariq A Qaiser, Usman Ghauri, Ayesha Vellani,... -
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Where there’s a will there’s a way: Janitor graduates from ivy league school
By: Fawad Khan, Uploaded: 14th May 2012
For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in classics. As a Columbia employee, he didn’t... Will Oxford and Cambridge Admit More Poor Students?
By: Farrukh Shabbir, Uploaded: 2nd May 2012
The legendary Oxford interview — during which a university academic invites a prospective undergrad into her study, hands him a cup of tea and ruthlessly probes the limits of his intelligence — is often cited as the scariest part of applying to the university. But for some young hopefuls, the overflowing bookshelves and wood paneling in a... World Bank to give Pakistan $550 million
By: Farrukh Shabbir, Uploaded: 27th April 2012
The World Bank announced the approval of a $550 million loan for Pakistan, to be used in education and energy (Natural Gas) sector by the government at Federal and Provincial levels. Punjab government will have access to $350 million, which it will use to improve the education sector providing relief to a good 8 million students all over Punjab.... Google Doodle: Marking the birthday of the zip’s inventor
By: Fawad Khan, Uploaded: 24th April 2012
Google’s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer most commonly associated with the development of the fastening device that revolutionised the clothing industry. Before Sundback’s intervention, the idea for a fastener based on interlocking teeth had circulated among... Google & LUMS join hands for new TPI program
By: Zuhaeb Nazir, Uploaded: 18th April 2012
LAHORE: Lahore University of Management Sciences is preparing to launch a new Technology for the People Initiative (TPI) at LUMS, with financial coordination to be received by Google Inc. The idea of the TPI is to nurture technology solutions that are deemed necessary to the socio-economic context of Pakistan hugely affecting areas of public policy,... Corporal punishment have worse effects on children’s mind
By: Javeria Nasir, Uploaded: 18th April 2012
ISLAMABAD: Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving “executive functioning” psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking, and delaying gratification than those in a school relying on milder disciplinary measures such as time-outs. According to a new study involving two private schools in a West African country, suggest that a harshly... Locator chips keep track of students in Brazil
By: Javeria Nasir, Uploaded: 17th April 2012
SAO PAULO (AP) — Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they’re cutting classes, the city’s education secretary said Thursday. Twenty thousand students in 25 of Vitoria da Conquista’s 213 public schools started using T-shirts with chips earlier this week, secretary Coriolano Moraes... IBA Karachi and ISB Hyderabad (India) tie tactical knot
By: Monitoring Desk, Uploaded: 14th April 2012
The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi took a leap as it inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian School of Business (ISB) to provide executive education in Pakistan. A spokesperson of IBA Karachi said in a statement issued here onSaturday that the MoU was signed by Dean and Director, IBA Karachi Dr Ishrat Husain... Ancient ‘Kumzari’ language under threat of extinction in Oman
By: Alize Ahmed, Uploaded: 14th April 2012
Home to 4,000 people and overlooking the strategic Straits of Hormuz that Iran has threatened to close, Kumzar village has a thousand year-old language of its own that no one else on earth understands. Nestled on the northernmost tip of Oman’s Musandam peninsula and hidden by spectacular mountains that plunge into the Gulf’s aquamarine waters,... Pakistani students to face new visa tests for UK
By: Farrukh Shabbir, Uploaded: 13th April 2012
Pakistani students seeking to acquire a Visa for UK will go through newly formed language based tests after border checks revealed that almost 40 per cent of student applications from Pakistan contained false or misleading information. The British Home Office pilot scheme has increased the number of applications being rejected because of the increasing number... Acid Attacks against women must be stopped: Dr Wyatt
By: Zuhaeb Nazir, Uploaded: 11th April 2012
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission, alongside the Aurat Foundation and the Acid Survivors Foundation, sponsored a panel discussion on Tuesday in order to educate the people of Pakistan towards the eradication of violent crimes such as acid attacks against women. The panel discussion was attended by a crowd of over 150 university students and was... 15-years old Mousa wins world Math competition
By: APP, Uploaded: 26th March 2012
A fifteen year old Pakistani student Mousa Feroz, on Sunday won a gold medal in an Online World Mathematics Competition held in Australia. Over one point five million children from one hundred counties around the world took part in the competition took place on the sixth and seventh of... Students Protest outside BSEK
By: Javeria Nasir, Uploaded: 22nd March 2012
Hundreds of students on Thursday protested outside the Board of Secondary education Karachi when their admit cards were not issued prior to their examinations, Aaj news reported. The protesting students chanted slogans against the Karachi Board over mismanagement and staged a protest demonstration for an hour outside the area. A traffic mess was witnessed at the board office road owing... Punjab: Manual system restored in education boards
By: APP, Uploaded: 20th March 2012
The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi restored the manual system in all Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISEs). Punjab Teachers’ Union had filed a petition in the Lahore High Court against the online system. The court in its ruling directed the authorities concerned to restore manual system in all the Intermediate and Secondary Education Boards.... Filter companies not to help Pakistan filter the web
By: Monitoring Desk, Uploaded: 16th March 2012
The Pakistan, government’s unabashedly open call for global companies to provide Web filtering technology has been met with an unusual civil society campaign. A group based in Pakistan that calls itself Bolo Bhi wrote directly to eight companies that make a variety of security products, asking them not to satisfy Pakistan’s demand for a firewall that would... Shy students choose science subjects: Study
By: APP, Uploaded: 16th March 2012
A Dutch study found shy, introverted students are more likely to choose science subjects at school while more sociable children tend to avoid them. Researchers at the University of Groningen analyzing data on nearly 4000 students found that their subject choices at age 15 were affected by personality, NewScientist.com reported. Students choosing science subjects tended to be less... Faisalabad: Students jailed for cheating; released after surety
By: Farrukh Shabbir, Uploaded: 10th March 2012
News reports speculate that more than 30 students were jailed and presented to a judge in Faisalabad, after getting caught in act while cheating in their Matriculation examinations. The students belonging to Faisalabad Governement High School were caught cheating and jailed. The parents of the culprits, appealed that the students should get one more chance... Sawabi: Students invent RC plane with least energy consumption
By: Javeria Nasir, Uploaded: 6th March 2012
Pioneering students of District Sawabi seeking acknowledgement from government after a successful invention of a radio plane which consumes only 20 ampere of current. A group of 11 students of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering sciences and Technology (GIKIET) invented a radio plane and eager to participate in the competition of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics to... HEC: Top 10 Universities list released
By: Farrukh Shabbir, Uploaded: 23rd February 2012
The Higher Education Commission released its first ever criteria for top ten universities list along with the rankings, today. Initiative of QS ranking was taken up by HEC with the objective to promote a culture of participating in the world university rankings for the purpose of getting reasonable reflection of higher education (HEIs) development in the country. HEC-Pakistan is... Muslim students at Ivy League colleges monitored by police
By: AP, Uploaded: 20th February 2012
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles away in Buffalo and even sent an undercover... Teachers strike: 46th day of Jamshoro university closure
By: Javeria Nasir, Uploaded: 16th February 2012
Academic activities at Sindh University`s Jamshoro campus have remained paralysed ever since the murder of Prof Basheer Ahmed Channar, director of student affairs, on Jan 2. The varsity`s teachers have led the protest drive, and among other demands they have called for the removal of the vice chancellor and the formation of a judicial commission... PM announces IT university in Faisalabad
By: Farrukh Shabbir, Uploaded: 12th February 2012
FAISALABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday announced Rs 300 million for establishment of an IT University in Jaranwala. Addressing a public meeting at Jaranwala near here, he said the Varsity would bring a revolution in the field of education and provide an opportunity to the people of backward areas to decorate themselves... Karachi Literature Festival begins today
By: Javeria Nasir, Uploaded: 11th February 2012
The Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) being organised by the British Council and Oxford University Press (OUP) is going to start here on Saturday (today). The KLF is the first of its kind in Pakistan. It brings together Pakistani and international authors writing in different languages such as Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, English, German and French. It... Koel Gallery: 85 unique pieces of art
By: Farrukh Shabbir, Uploaded: 10th February 2012
An art exhibition was held at Koel Gallery in Karachi on the 9th of February featuring 85 different artists, each displaying a single piece of their art. Renowned artists such as Amean J, Asim Butt, Tariq A Qaiser, Usman Ghauri, Ayesha Vellani, Naireen Zia and Silwat Mumtaz; exhibited their work of art. The theme of the exhibition was titled... NAYS to celebrate Muslim Scientists Day
By: APP, Uploaded: 25th January 2012
National Academy of Young Scientists (NAYS) will be celebrating Muslim Scientists Day on March 10 to recognize scientific contribution of Muslim experts. Posters and banners will be displayed in all the major universities and institutes of Pakistan on this special day. Talking to APP, President NAYS Aftab Ahmad said ” We will also organize an Essay and Poster... Female students protest against unfair results
By: APP, Uploaded: 29th December 2011
Students of Government degree college for women on Thursday protested against unfair results of their first year exams of Higher Secondary School Certificate. They chanted slogans against Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RBISE) management and demanded fair and correct results by re-checking of papers. The protest march was started from the college and passing through Islamia School, ended... Hot Topics
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