Karachi: University of Karachi has announced Monday the postponement of all exams scheduled to be held on Tuesday owing to the law and order situation across the metropolitan.
Kaleem Raza Khan, Registrar Karachi University told in a statement issued to media said that all exams had been postponed owing to announcement of the day of mourning on Tuesday.

He said the new dates would be announced soon for the postponed papers.

Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said education was the key to fight against ignorance, extremism and terrorism, therefore the government had taken a number of steps to promote educational facilities, both for boys and girls.
Addressing Islamabad Model Schools for Boys and Girls here at PM Staff Colony, after inaugurating the new buildings of these two institutions, he said, “We do have financial constraints but fully determined to promote educational facilities and it is at top of the priorities of the government.”

The Prime Minister said once …

Lahore: Some 153,668 students took the examination. The success ratio of the students remained 34.9 percent.
According to the results issued by the university, Rida Rashid, a girl from Toba Tek Singh, topped the BSc examinations, Irfa Naseem from Gujrawanla followed her with second position while Sadia Perven got the third position.

Iqra Abbas from Lahore got the highest marks in BA examinations while Zaheer Iqbal and Hamza came second and third.
Punjab University has organized a ceremony at PU new campus and prizes are distributed to students who have passed in merits.
Their …

Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has announced scholarship for the position holder Amna in the Matric results recently declared by Gujranwala Board of Intermediate and Secondary Examination.
Amna is the daughter of a poor vendor in Gujranawala and her family is facing serious financial crisis.

According to the state-TV, the PM gave this direction after reports of Amna’s brilliant success were aired by the media.
The prime minister directed the Ministry of Information & Technology to sanction a scholarship for the better future of Amna.

Exam officials have launched an investigation after up to 30,000 students in Scotland who opted to get their grades by text message were sent them on Wednesday, a day early by mistake.
Opposition leaders in the Scottish parliament said the blunder had given these students a clear advantage in finding places at university because the list of late courses available went live on the internet at a minute past midnight on Thursday morning, nine hours before the results were officially due to arrive. Ken Macintosh, Labour’s education spokesman at Holyrood, said: …

New Delhi: India and Australia on Monday announced the launch of an education council to strengthen exchanges between the two nations.
“Last April, we decided to start the India-Australia education council, which we start on Monday,” HRD minister Kapil Sibal said after meeting Australian tertiary education minister Chris Evans in New Delhi.

Sibal announced the start of the India-Australia education council at a press conference here.
A meeting of vice-chancellors from nearly 30 universities from the two countries was also held in New Delhi on Sunday. “We are looking forward to expand the …