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LAHORE—LUMS Centre for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) organized an informative training session regarding water science, policy, and governance in collaboration with Lead Pakistan and Nestle. The workshop lasted three days and discussed some key issues for Pakistan’s water security and creative solutions for water sustainability and efficiency. The multi-disciplinary training workshops hosted over 130 participants from national and international universities including students and academia as well as professionals engaged with water management, climate science, and agriculture. Leading water experts including Dr.Pervaiz Amir (Global Water Partnership), Mr. Rao Irshad Ali Khan (Chairman IRSA), Dr. Arif Anwar (International Water Management Institute),…

Lahore—Federal Minister for Planning and Development Prof Ahsan Iqbal has said that the challenge of the present age is that whatever we are teaching and whatever research work we are doing should be according to our needs. He was addressing the concluding ceremony of 4th International Conference on Research in Education at Faisal Auditorium here on Friday. PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Vice Chancellor University of Education Prof Dr Rauf-e-Azam, Dean Faculty of Education Prof Dr Mumtaz Akhtar, Conference Secretary Prof Dr Abid Hussain Chaudhry, Prof Dr Rifaqat Ali, Prof Dr Rizwan Akram, Dr Abdul Qayyum Chaudhry, delegates…

LAHORE – Punjab Governor and UET Chancellor Malik Rafique Rajwana said that engineering sector has big potential to optimise the future of Pakistan. Engineering education can be helpful for attaining the targets of development with visionary approach. He said it while presiding over 23rd convocation of University of Engineering and Technology Lahore at main auditorium yesterday. Addressing the convocation, the governor said that for career building, talent of youth must be grabbed on modern grounds. Present government started many projects to engage this really big asset of country, said governor adding that country is facing many complicated challenges which can…

LAHORE: Beaconhouse’s School of Tomorrow (SOT) series of events-A World of Tomorrow-culminated on Sunday. Crowds thronged the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club on the third and final day to participate in various activities. The day began with a panel discussion focusing on the question, ‘If media controls global thinking, who controls global media?’ The panelists felt that as opposed to the general perception of the media savvy, the so-called free media gives an ‘illusion of choice’. The sessions on issues relating to transgender people and one entitled ‘Shayari 101’ drew the largest crowd in the morning. The transgender speakers…

LAHORE – Three-day event ‘A World of Tomorrow’ organized by Beacon house School System in Lahore attracted a large number of people on its second day on Saturday. Students, teachers, intellectuals, politicians and literary figures came in droves on the second day to participate in different panel discussions held in Royal Palm Golf and Country Club. On the second day, a session was held with former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar. In the session, Khar highlighted the issues of Pakistan’s relations with other countries and also narrated her personal experience while in office as FM. “We received enormous pressure from…

Quality education needed for progress LAHORE = The inaugural session of the first international educational conference hosted by the Institute of Education, Lahore College for Women University was held here on Wednesday. The conference addressed the theme of “Building Knowledge Competencies for Sustainable Development in Asia: Achieving the Goals of Life Long Learning”. According to a press release issued on Wednesday, leading national and international educationists from USA, UK and Malaysia, distinguished guests, along with 400 participants were present on this occasion for deliberations on these conference areas and discussions on its major themes. Speaking at the opening session of…

Lahore: Punjab 2016 with Dr. Muhammad Aasim Yousaf, Chief Medical Officer, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre and Mr. Haroon Raheem, Education Advisor, Punjab, USAID/Pakistan, U.S. Agency for International Development. A total of 35 projects from Punjab have been selected to participate in the National Fair scheduled for later this year.  The winners from Sindh, Baluchistan, KPK, Islamabad, Gilgit and Punjab along with their selected projects will be competing for participation in the coveted International Science & Engineering Fair scheduled to be held in Los Angeles, California in May 2017.

Zealcon and UET sign MoU to offer ‘Business Communication’ as post-graduate subject LAHORE : Zealcon Engineering and University of Engineering & Technology (UET) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to offer ‘Business Communication’ as a Post-graduate subject to the students. Under the MoU, the UET will add a topic of “Contracts and claims” to the project management courses both at the under-graduate and post-graduate level. The Managing Director Zealcon Engineering Azhar Ali Sheikh signed the MoU with the Vice Chanvellor UET Professor Dr Fazal Ahmad Khalid. Speaking on the occasion, MD Zealcon Azhar Ali Sheikh eulogized the role…

Welsh university tuition fees will be pegged at £9,000 next year despite colleges in England being given the go-ahead to charge up to £9,250. Students from Wales will be able to claim up to £4,954 in grants and borrow the rest, wherever they study. The announcement comes ahead of the publication of the Diamond report into higher education and student finance. One senior academic has warned that Welsh universities could become “second rate” if they could not increase fees. Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said: “This decision gives certainty for those who want to go to university for the academic year…