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AIOU’s hostile admin an awful nuisance for students

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Students of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU)- the largest university of the country in terms of students’ enrolment, are facing numerous serious problems relative to administrative and examination system due to which many of them are compelled to skip their precious academic semester every year.

AIOU is the country’s first distance learning institution with a network of 32 regional campuses and over 1.4 million students across Pakistan claiming to impart ‘quality education’ to every enrolled student. Continue reading

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Only female staff to be appointed at girls colleges

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Senior Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq said on Tuesday that female staff would be appointed to all girls’ colleges in Sindh and any male staff working in those colleges would be transferred.

He also issued directives for the construction of a teaching staff hostel at each girls’ college so that teachers coming from far-flung areas to teach at the institute had a proper accommodation.

The minister was chairing a meeting of the Sindh Education Department’s Annual Development Programme. The meeting discussed several schemes for the education sector for the year 2011-12. Continue reading

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Missing student case

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The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday repeated notices to Director Generals (DGs) of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Sindh to submit their comments till May 7, 2011 on a constitutional petition filed by Nafees Ahmed Qudwai, father of Azib Ahmed Qudwai, a missing student of Hamdard University.

The SHC Chief Justice also expressed his annoyance over non-submission of comments by the ISI and the MI in this case. Continue reading

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Student of A-level composes book on Benazir

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A student of A-level is all set to make history as her book on slain prime minister Benazir Bhutto is in the final stages.

Saria, resident of Rawalpindi is studying in Alevel part 1 and her book titled ‘Blood in the Terrain’ throws light on the political efforts of Ms Bhutto, her contribution to the Muslim world and finally the treatment meted out to her by extremist elements in the country on her arrival.

In the book young Saria has paid tributes to Ms Bhutto for her tremendous services in projecting the soft and liberal image of the Muslim world while at the same time the young author has lamented the tragic assassination of Ms Bhutto in poetic verses.

The young student in her book has foresighted insurgency and a regime of dictators as she thinks that the kindle of liberty (Ms Bhutto) was no more on the face of the planet.“I stare around and see an insurgency. Opposed to democracy and committed to slay it,” she writes. Continue reading

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School without books

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Students of the government-run and -aided schools in the city will start their new academic year on April 1 without textbooks – all because of a tangle between the Ministry of Education and the National Book Foundation (NBF).

Legal minds start arguing in the Islamabad High Court on Friday how to clear the mess.

Informed sources said the NBF was supposed to have the books for Class 1 to 10 printed by March 15 but alleged that ill-advised orders from the ministry created a legal mess and stalled the printing process.

They said the NBF posted a tender for the purchase of paper for printing the books on its website, and that of the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA), on December 22 last year as the All Pakistan Newspapers Society had placed a ban on publishing the advertisements of the Education Ministry because the ministry owed its members over Rs190 million in back payments. Continue reading