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اخوت فاونڈیشن نے قصور میں پاکستان کی اپنی نوعیت کی پہلی یونیورسٹی تعمیر کی ھےجہاں کسی طالب علم سے فیس نہیں لی جاے گا۔۔۔







 
IT Datacenter Inaugurated at AIOU

Allama Iqbal International Open University (AIOU) has inaugurated a world-class datacenter, a statement from the varsity confirmed. Vice Chancellor AIOU Professor Dr. Nasir Mahmood inaugurated the facility.

On the occasion, he said, “The data center will help to provide quality digital-based academic services to the students and promote on-Campus-management services.”

He said the development would prove to be the stepping stone towards turning the virtual university into a paperless academy with the use of the latest state-of-the-art technology.

“With the help of the data center,” he said, “we will ensure the provision of academic contents to the students in digital form instead of hard copies,” adding that the center will also work as a digital library for the researchers and the students of higher education.

Director IT at AIOU, Dr. Muhammad Ajmal Farooq, said the Datacenter would redefine the concept of ‘virtual classrooms.’

“Not only will it strengthen the on-campus administrative and financial management, but will also help in the provision of relevant academic data to the students at their door-steps,” Dr. Ajmal added.

He further added that the Datacenter had been established with technical support from China to ensure international standards
 
I was hoping PTI would impose education emergency as soon as they took oath. Schools across the country should be upgraded and provided missing facilities and furniture. Teachers need to be hired through NTS. Girl students should get a stipend just for attending school.
 
ISLAMABAD: Chinese information technology giant Huawei Technologies will provide up to $2 million for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Talent Development Programme designed to promote the study of advanced technologies through research and development work and help Pakistan step up IT-related exports.

According to experts, Pakistan’s 60% population is below 30 years of age and the IT sector has a huge potential to provide them with job opportunities and increase overall exports which have remained stagnant at around $24 billion in the past five years.

According to data compiled by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the export of IT and IT-related services went up to $1.067 billion in financial year 2017-18 compared with $939 million in the previous year, registering a double-digit growth of 13%.


The Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Huawei Technologies Pakistan (Private) Limited have been working together for the past 10 years and have undertaken various initiatives for the promotion of ICT in Pakistan.


Of the 10,000 university students from across the country, 171 passed the Huawei Certified Network Associate (HCNA) certification examination and the top 150 appeared in the National Final Exam in Huawei’s 3rd Information and Communication Technology Competition 2018.

Top six students representing Pakistan, who were from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pak-Aims University, Lahore Leads University and Virtual University, along with Huawei-certified trainers reached the Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen, China for the international finals.

They are competing for $30,000 worth of cash and other prizes including job opportunities and scholarships.

It will also finance scholarships to Pakistani students, skill development programmes and help in transforming and digitalising the education sector using latest technologies for equal access and quality education across the country through e-class rooms and cloud initiatives.

The Economic Affairs Division pointed out in the cabinet meeting that the MoU between Huawei Technologies and the HEC was an agreement with a company incorporated in Pakistan without any assistance from a foreign donor. After the discussion, the cabinet allowed the Ministry of Education to decide the matter at its own level
 
Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research.PCSIR
Pakistan Council of Scientific Industrial Research (PCSIR) was established 1953 under societies act to promote the cause of science and technology in the country. Since 1973, it is functioning under the act of parliament which was amended in 1984. Chief Executive of the council is the Chairman who is appointed by the Federal Government. The 21- member council is the policy making body of the PCSIR, which is composed of Chairman, three member of the Governing Body, four Director Generals of PCSIR Laboratories, four representatives from four ministers, four Directors of Industries, on from each province and six representative of the industry. The Governing Body is the executive organ of the council and comprises of the Chairman and three full-time members viz member (Science), Member (Technology) and Member (Finance), nominated by the Government. The Head office of the PCSIR is functioning at Islamabad where offices of the Chairman, Member (Science), Member (Technology) and Member (Finance) and Secretary PCSIR are located.

There are eleven laboratories / Units and five HRD Centres established throughout the country, headed by Director Generals/ Directors who directly report to the Chairman

The Lahore Laboratories Complex formerly known as the West Regional Laboratories started functioning with staff in a wing of the Punjab Universities, Institute of Chemistry in 1953. This setup was shifting in 1956 to the present permanent site for which 68.5 acres of the land were earmarked by the Punjab Government in 1955.

The Lahore unit of PCSIR has as commendable record of achievements. Its scientists and technologists boost of having completed more than 500 processes. Many of these are in commercial production. As many as 100 processes have been patented. In addition to applied research, their level of accomplishment in basis research, the feedback for applied research, is further evident from more than 3500 research publication in journal of national and international stands.

The laboratories are assisting the academic institutions by providing facilities to their M.Sc., MPhil and Phd. students which to date can be counted in thousands Various Centres and Divisions are manned by highly trained researchers. Necessary additional facilities such as workshops, libraries and pilot plants are adequately available to meet the R&D support needs.

Besides this LLC is also assigning the industry in public / private sector and Government department for compliance the products according to WTO regimes like TBT & SPS for their sustainability in the global market. For the purpose, quality services under ISO/ IEC 17025 : 2005 are being extended to the exporters, importers and manufacturers etc., throughout Pakistan multidimensional areas of testing and calibration. PCSIR labs. Complex lahore is also certified under ISO 9001:2008 by TUV nord Germany

PCSIR Labs Complex Lahore has the following functional centres under its umbrella:

  • Applied Chemistry Research Centre
  • Applied Physics, Computers and Research Centre
  • Centre for Environmental Protection Studies
  • Centre for Development of Laboratory Equipment
  • Electrical Measurement Test Laboratory
  • Engineering Services Centre
  • Food and Biotechnology Research Centre
  • Glass & Ceramics Research Centre
  • Mineral Processing Research Centre
  • Pakistan Institute of Technology for Minerals & Advance Engineering Materials (PITMAEM)

PCSIR has realigned itself as a cost effective technology solution provider for public and private industrial sector especially for SMEs.

Objective Of PCSIR
  • Optimum utilization of indigenous raw material resources for the development of industrial processes.
  • Development of technologies around local resources from bench to pilot plant stages, and leasing them out for industrial exploitation leading to import substitution and export enhancement.
  • To conduct R&D work on problems faced by the industrial sector and maintain linkages through seminars, workshops, publications and provision of assistance to academic institutions
  • To undertake cooperative research with local and foreign R&D organizations and commerce-industrial outfits on projects of national interest
  • Human resource development organized training courses and diffusive on-job grooming of manpower for industry and research centres to broaden the science & technology base in the country

From 1953 to 2000 the institution developed 647 technological processes (average 15 per year ) and obtained about 360 patents (Average 8 per year). About 3750 research papers were published between 1953-2000 by PCSIR ( Average 80 per year).




 
Countrywide literacy drive to be launched soon

ISLAMABAD: In view of a decrease in the literacy rate in the country, the education ministry has decided to launch an educational campaign with emergency plans to start short and crash courses in the provinces as well as at the federal level.

Sources said that the literacy rate had fallen by two percentage points to 58 per cent from 60%.

The recent census revealed that the increase in population had caused a decline in the educational inclinations with the government spending also being a major factor. According to statistics, the government allocated a meagre 2.2 per cent of the GDP for education despite recommendation by Unesco to raise the budget to at least 40 per cent.
 
So over the past 10 years:

Literacy rate in 2008

Maldives: 96%
Sri Lanka: 91%
Iran: 82%
India: 61%
Bhutan: 54%
Pakistan: 50%
Nepal: 49%
Bangladesh: 47%
Afghanistan: 28%

Literacy rate in 2017/18 (% change)

Maldives: 99% (+3%)
Sri Lanka: 91% (-)
Iran: 85% (+3%)
Bangladesh: 73% (+26%)
India: 69% (+8%)
Nepal: 60% (+11%)
Bhutan: 57% (+3%)
Pakistan: 57% (+7%)
Afghanistan: 32% (+4%)

what a remarkable change over 10 years in 2008 Pakistan India(50,61) was ahead of us now we are ahead of both super power India Pakistan , Bangladesh literacy rate 76% compare to India Pakistan 69% and 57% . we jump by 26% over 10 years. :yahoo:
 
what a remarkable change over 10 years in 2008 Pakistan India(50,61) was ahead of us now we are ahead of both super power India Pakistan , Bangladesh literacy rate 76% compare to India Pakistan 69% and 57% . we jump by 26% over 10 years. :yahoo:

Credit goes to the NGOs which have worked hard relentlessly to first promote education in quantity.
Now Bangladesh must move onto second phase and better the quality of education.
 
CDA hands over land for the King Hamad varsity

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ISLAMABAD: Over two years after deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif broke ground for the Rs3 billion project, the civic authority on Wednesday finally handed over possession of demarcated land in Chatta Bakhtawar to the health ministry to build the King Hamad University of Nursing and Associated Medical Sciences.

However, it took a joint operation from the Capital Development Authority and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration to clear the land of locals first.
 
NUST made remarkable inventions in #Pakistan in last 5 years

National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has rendered remarkable contributions in the health sector of the country by developing new technologies during the last five years to assist the health system and benefit the common people. According to the official source, the university has developed cost-effective Cardiac Stent to facilitate the patients suffering from cardiac diseases and cannot afford to buy the costly stents available in the market.

The university, through research, has also developed Intelligent Wheelchair, Prosthetic Hand, Limb and Knee Joint to facilitate the patients who are suffering from the related diseases. The university has also developed a Cost Effective Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Diagnostic Kit, Nano-Fabric and Nano-Surgical Blades as well as Electrocardiography (ECG) Machine, the source added
 
Pakistani students to visit Japan on govt’s invitation

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ISLAMABAD - A delegation of eight Pakistani university students seeking medical education and six young civil servants mainly working in the health sector will embark upon their visit to Japan on the short term invitation extended by Japan from January 21 to January 29.

The visit is taking place under the Japan-South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Network Program of people–to-people exchange, a Japanese embassy statement said. The first batch of youth comprising of twelve high school students from Karachi along with their one supervisor have already returned to Pakistan after their successful visit to Japan earlier this month under the same youth invitation program.

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LAHORE - The Punjab School Education Department and the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) have signed an agreement to set up a cadet college in Fort Munro, Dera Ghazi Khan.

School Department of Education Secretary Dr Allah Bakhsh Malik signed the agreement on behalf of the Punjab Government and Deputy Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Shahid Akhtar Alvi signed the agreement on behalf of the PAF. The government of Punjab will provide 100 acres of land for the cadet college and welfare city in Fort Munro and also provide a grant of Rs 1 billion.
 
Turkish Maarif Foundation schools to reduce tuition fee by 20% without laying off teaching staff

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After having formally taken control earlier this month over all educational institutions previously linked to Fethullah Gulen's organisation, the Turkish Maarif Foundation (TMF) announced on Sunday that in compliance with Supreme Court's orders, it will be reducing tuition fee by 20 per cent without laying off any teaching staff.

A press conference was held by Maarif Foundation's executive board member Mahmut Mustafa Özdil with the country director in Pakistan, Selahattin Batur, also present.

Özdil said that the foundation of a new educational system would be laid for the promotion of peace, justice, and development. He expressed the organisation's desire to provide opportunities to students to advance in life with a "clear mind, knowledge and understanding".

The management official further informed journalists that underprivileged and orphaned students who demonstrate extraordinary aptitude will be provided free-of-cost education and also given other facilities.

He said that following the Supreme Court's orders, TMF's teachers and students have access to numerous opportunities in Turkey.

Also, according to higher education legislation in Turkey, all students of the TMF schools are exempted from tuition fees of state universities.

Özdil said teachers will be provided remuneration, advancement opportunities, and job security based on their skills and experience. He revealed that currently 1,000 teachers were working across 26 campuses.

He said there were many long and short duration training programmes — including a comprehensive three-month course — that teachers could avail to better equip themselves with the requisite knowledge for teaching.

Batur noted that Pakistan and Turkey have always stood together in difficult times and share ties "beyond politics".

The Supreme Court had instructed the government in late December last year to declare Gulen’s organisation a terrorist group and ordered handing over of the schools to the Maarif Foundation.

Turkey had established the Maarif Foundation in 2016 after a coup attempt. It was tasked with taking over the administration of overseas schools linked to Gulen’s organisation. It also establishes schools and educational centres internationally.
 
Egypt’s Al-Azhar University announces rise in scholarships for Pakistani students

Egypt’s Al-Azhar University on Sunday announced a rise in the number of scholarships given to Pakistani students apart from the 50 seats already allocated to them.

The announcement was made after Religious Affairs Minister Dr Nur ul Haq Qadri met with the head of Al-Azhar University Dr Ahmed al Tayyab in Cairo.

“50 allocated scholarships for Pakistani students will be further increased”, the varsity’s head shared.
 
Karakoram University announces separate campus for girls


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ASTOR: Karakoram University Professor Dr Attaullah Shah Wednesday announced establishment of separate campus for girls and a special package of admission for third divisiones students.

Talking to APP, the Vice Chancellor said that the government was promoting education and providing facilities to students.

He said that third divisions had been allowed and the students could take admissions in spring season before February 28.

The VC informed that said that admissions would be started in Diamer Campus in March so the third divisions could take admissions adding 50 percent fee would be paid by provincial government.
 
16,000 KP students being provided computer education: Bangash

Special Assistant to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Kamran Khan Bangash has said that computer education is being provided to 16000 students at secondary level through early age programme in the province.

In an Interview here on Sunday, Kamran Bangash said the government will impart training in digital skills to 8000 youth in the next five years.

He said computerized facilitation centers will also be established at local government offices to facilitate the general public.

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