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Karachi, Higher Education Commission (HEC) has announced sports scholarships for two students of Sindh University Jamshoro based on their fantastic performance in 36th national games 2012 conducted in Lahore.

According to Director Sports (Boys), Sindh University boxers Hussain Shah and Israr Shah got first position in boxing competition held in Lahore and got Gold and Bronze medals respectively. They remained unconquerable during the competition in national level event. So the Higher Education Commission (HEC) selected both of them for its sports scholarships for the period of one year.

Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Lahore has announced scholarships for its students belonging to remote and unprivileged areas.

Vice Chancellor Dr. Sabiha Mansoor chaired the scholarship committee and decided that the students from Interior Sindh, Punjab, FATA, Northern Areas, KPK will be the beneficiaries of 20 scholarships. According to the distribution all above mentioned areas will get five scholarships each.

The Vice Chancellor called the deserving students (who fulfill all scholarship criteria) and awarded the following scholarships to them.

The mentioned (non-residents) students of LCWU at BS level will be entitled to full Silver Scholarships: Two from Gilgit, One from Kohat, One from Ranjapur, Two from Sindh, One from Baluchistan and one full Golden Scholarship to the resident student of BS program of LCWU from Hunza.

Addressing to the meeting Vice Chancellor Dr. Sabiha Mansoor said that LCWU’s aim is to emancipate young Pakistani women and to transform them through higher education from being silent, passive and helpless citizens into highly empowered leaders of society. “The importance of higher education for young women is a slogan whose significance is only being realised in the 21st century.

Lahore College for Women University, with its glorious past and rich tradition as one of Pakistan’s largest and oldest institutions providing education to women, is one such centre of academic excellence contributing towards a progressive Pakistan. The university has reserved a substantial sum of money to be dispersed as need based scholarships to the financially constrained students.

LCWU has distributed scholarships worth total Rs. 26 million on need based scholarships at the start of the financial year. This allocation of university resources is in keeping with the vision to make higher education accessible to students from all walks of life, she added.

Karachi, The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) has extended the last date for submission of admission forms till Jan 3.

According to the information, the forms for admission to arts, law, business administration, commerce and economics departments can be obtained from bank branches at the Abdul Haq campus, while admission forms for science, computer science, geology, chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology and pharmacy are available at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal campus.

Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) has, over the years emerged as in impressive center of highest learning with extremely learned faculty. FUUAST enjoys the unique distinction of being the first ever university in Pakistan, which ultimately aims at using Urdu as the main language of instruction and teaching.

The University was established on 13th November 2002. The university has its principal seat at Islamabad. The University started functioning in November 2002 by taking over two federal government colleges, namely Federal Urdu Science College and Federal Urdu Arts College, in Karachi, that were established in 1949 by Baba-e-Urdu Dr. Abdul Haq whose mission was only to promote Urdu as teaching and also as national language.

The principal seat of the University at Islamabad commenced its teaching programs in November 2003. It is heartening to note that the FUUAST has come a long way, since its modest beginning in 2002 from a few subjects to full-fledged faculties including those of Basic and Applied Sciences along with Engineering, Business Management, Economics and Humanities.

The FUUAST is committed to the transfer and dissemination of contemporary knowledge to a vast segment of society through the national language in all fields of Arts, Sciences, Engineering and Emerging Technologies.

The University is devoted to prepare students with skills, competency and capabilities necessary for meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century and assume the leadership role in their respective professions

 Tremendous increase in research publications as QAU remains at top with 717 publications followed by UoA with 524 publications and AKU with 521 publications

 Pakistani higher education institutions have witnessed a tremendous increase in research publications within last few years, the findings of an academic exercise, conducted by the Higher Education Commission Pakistan (HEC), has revealed.

According to HEC’s Assessment and Research Ranking Report, the number of publications by Pakistan’s higher education institutions has increased from about 800 in the year 2002 to more than 6,000 in the year 2011. In 2010, this number was 5,000.

These publications were extracted using three global databases: SCI-E, SSCI, and S&HCI from Thomson-Reuters web of science. The publications also cover all major disciplines including physical sciences, agriculture and veterinary sciences, biological and medical sciences, social sciences, management sciences and engineering.
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Investment in higher education in the country continues to reap dividends as according to QS World Universities Rankings 2012, five Pakistani universities have won a place in the list of top 300 universities in Asia.

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) UK is the world’s most renowned and prestigious ranking agency.

National University of Science and Technology (NUST-108), Karachi University, AKU, Lahore University of Management Sciences and Lahore University are now in top 300 Asian universities.

It speaks volumes of the hard work put in by the management and faculty of these universities and consistent support of the Higher Education Commission (HEC). Continue reading »

LAHORE: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has granted permission to the UK-based professional examining body, the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM), to open approved centres in Pakistan.
The HEC has recognised ICM’s Level 6 Graduate Diploma qualifications as equivalent to Pakistan’s four-year bachelor degree, ICM Regional Director for Pakistan Moazam Shahbaz said while briefing media representatives.  Continue reading »