NA body briefed on Mardan lynching incident on April 27, 2017ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s (NA) Standing Committee on Federal Education and Professional Training on Thursday called for exemplary punishments for those responsible for Mashal Khan’s murder. The committee met under the chairmanship of Col (r) Dr Amirullah Marwat. Officials from Abdul Wali Khan University briefed the committee about the killing of the student. The agenda […]
AIOU assignments being sold openly across twin cities on April 27, 2017ISLAMABAD: If you need a genuine degree in any discipline, get enrolled with Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and achieve the goal while spending a little amount of money, because the university has no check and balance on assignments that are being sold in the markets openly, Daily Times has learnt. As per the investigation […]
KP govt urged to stop expulsion of transgender people on April 24, 2017ISLAMABAD: The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has written a letter to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, urging it to stop the planned expulsion of transgendered persons from Swat. Earlier, the Swat district administration had asked members of the transgendered community to leave the area within two days. The decision was taken over complaints filed […]
FGPH staff protest against non-payment of salaries on April 22, 2017ISLAMABAD: Employees of the Federal Government Polyclinic Hospital (FGPH) continued their protests against the non-payment of salaries for the third day on Friday. Around 67 technicians have not been paid their salaries since August 2016. The staff gathered in front of the hospital and chanted slogans against the hospital administration. The protesters said that many […]
Parents decry arbitrary admission policy on April 21, 2017ISLAMABAD: A number of parents have expressed reservations over the criteria for admission to education institutes being run by the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) and the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE). They said that there was no unified policy for admission to classes. Talking to Daily Times, several parents said that their children […]
Discrepancies found in PMs Education Reforms project on April 19, 2017ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s Education Reforms Programme has failed to mature in a streamlined manner, Daily Times has learnt. In 2015, the federal government had launched the PM’s Education Reforms Programme amidst much fanfare. The government announced to provide all basic facilities to 422 educational institutions functioning under the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE). The […]
Nawaz Sharif appoints Hasnat Qureshi as FDE DG on April 14, 2017ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif has once again appointed Hasnat Qureshi as Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) acting Director General (DG). Qureshi holds Basic Pay Scale (BPS-20) and is actually an employee of District Management Group (DMG) and also holds the charge of Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PEIRA). He was appointed as PIERA […]
IIUI students protest against fee hike, lack of facilities on April 11, 2017ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of students of International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) on Tuesday staged a protest against fee hike, lack of facilities and some other administrative problems in the university. At the mid of the day hundreds of students from the male campus gathered in front of academic blocks and held a rally towards administrative block […]
HEC issues ‘vague’ warning to IIUI on PhD degrees on April 11, 2017ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has expressed concerns over violations by the International Islamic University (IIU) Islamabad while awarding PhD degrees to its students. However, the Commission did not provide the details of such irregularities to the university According to a letter, a copy of which has been obtained by Daily Times, the HEC […]
Actual human crisis in Syria is worse than that reported on April 9, 2017ISLAMABAD: The actual human crisis in Syria is worse than it was reported in media, there are over six million people refugees in the Syria wherein 2.5 million refugees are under the age of 18 years old. This was stated by Pakistan International Medical Association (PIMA) International Relief, Director Muhammad Iqbal Khan in a presser […]