Posts tagged Students
Influential landlords using 1,158 schools as godowns
0January 10, 2011
Senior Sindh Minister for Education, Pir Mazharul Haq said 1,158 schools established in the province by the previous rulers are being used as godowns by influential landlords. The minister said this on Sunday while addressing on the second death anniversary of the PPP worker Ismail Chopan observed near here at Dhoronaro. Recalling Ismail Chopanís services for restoration of democracy, the minister said he was a brave worker of the party and his sacrifice will not go waste. Paying rich tributes to the late activists of the party, the minister said Chopan was kidnapped and killed in 2009 by political rivals. More >
US high-school student kills principal
0January 9, 2011
OMAHA (USA): The son of a police detective opened fire at a high school in the state of Nebraska on Wednesday, fatally wounding the assistant principal and forcing panicked students to take cover in the kitchen of the building just as they returned from holiday break.
The gunman, who had attended the school for no more than two months, also wounded the principal before fleeing from the scene and fatally shooting himself in his car.
Authorities declined to speculate about why the suspect, identified as 17-year-old Robert Butler Jr., targeted the administrators.
Vice Principal Vicki Kaspar, 58, died at a More >
Talented students to be welcomed in UK: envoy
1November 11, 2010
FAISALABAD: Students can play a key role in improving the image of the country in the UK and other European countries, said British Deputy High Commissioner and Director Trade and Investment in Pakistan Robert W Gibson here on Wednesday. Addressing students and faculty members of a local university, he assured that talented students would be welcomed in the UK. He inaugurated the new telecommunication laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the university. He said that besides the bilateral trade relations, the UK had also strong educational links with Pakistan. “Every year over 10,000 Pakistani students go to UK More >
Student killed in South Waziristan
0November 1, 2010
An eight-year-old student of a private school was reportedly shot dead by security forces for allegedly violating the curfew on Sunday. The authorities had clamped a curfew on Bannu-Miramshah Road on Sunday due to movement of a Pakistan Army convoy from Bannu to Miramshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency. As per directives of security forces, the political administration had ordered local people to stay at 300 meters away from the main road during the curfew in the area. Family sources of the slain student claimed the student, who was studying at Kurram Model School at Darpakhel Serai in More >
67 colleges, high schools get notices for poor results
0November 1, 2010
The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has issued show-cause notices to 67 city-based colleges and higher secondary schools for their poor performance in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) humanities group annual examination-2010. Quoting the relevant rules authorising the board to suspend or cancel its affiliation with any college or higher secondary school whose students’ pass percentage registers below 33, BIEK chairman Prof Anwar Ahmed Zai said that the 67 educational institutions served show-cause notices had been asked to explain their position within the next 15 days. He said the notices had been issued a few days back and a More >
Punjab Educational Endowment Fund for Balochistan Students
4October 31, 2010
Education Department, Government of Balochistan has received 200 scholarships from Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF) for intelligent and deserving students of Balochistan province. Categorization of these scholarships is:
Category / Level Male Students Female Students Total Matric 60 60 120 Intermediate 40 40 80