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 …

Swat: The United Nations agency for children will provide funds to Pakistan Baitul Maal to promote education and increase literacy rate among the internally displaced children of Swat district.

The Unicef will provide $300,000 to Pakistan Baitul Maal to assist it in launching a project, which is aimed at encouraging the affected families to enroll their children in primary schools. The social safety net through this child support programme will provide conditional cash transfer to such deserving families, which are too poor to afford educational expenses of their children.
Such poor parents …

Karachi: Productive research and quality research publications in local and international scientific journals enabled University of Karachi to secure 223rd position in the field of natural sciences among world universities.
This was stated by Prof. Dr. Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui, Vice-Chancellor of Karachi University at the certificate distribution ceremony of the 11-day long comperehensive training programme on “Research Communication Skills” here on Monday.He was of the view that in this highly competitive environment, opportunity to convey one’s thoughts and findings should be effective and in an understandable manner so that …

Karachi: Owing to the mounting unrest and violence in the city, Bahria University’s Karachi Campus has postponed its tomorrow’s (July 9) entry test till July 12.
The security situation is getting worst with every passing hour and the city is gripped by fear and uncertainty.

Scores of people have lost their lives while many more sustained injuries in last many days’ ongoing violence in the metropolis.
Near about all educational institutes including University of Karachi cancelled their exams and entry tests.
According to Commodore Mazhar Choudhry, Director Karachi Campus, Bahria University has cancelled July …

Karachi: Following the unrest and tense situation in the metropolis, University of Karachi has postponed all exams were to be held on Saturday.
Controller of examination said that the schedule for postponed papers would be announced later.

However all main administrative offices of the university, would remain open on Saturday the controller said.