Academic Clive Hamilton said his book “Silent Invasion” was pulled by publisher Allen & Unwin last week just as it was about to go to press...
In August, another foreign publisher, Britain's Cambridge University Press, temporarily removed 300 academic articles covering sensitive Chinese political issues from a journal's website in China at the request of an import agency, only to revive the texts in response to public outcry...
What are the achievements of a large section of PhD qualified faculty members, and research centres heavily funded by the HEC? While the issue of the ‘professor mafia’ has already been examined in these pages, more can be said on improving the culture of academic research in Pakistan...
Currently, Pakistan produces many PhD scholars...
LAHORE: Dr Zulfiqar Ali, who taught himself and many others during his 17-year imprisonment, was executed at the Kot Lakhpat Jail here on Wednesday for committing double murder...
He was hanged after the rejection of his mercy petition by the president
KARACHI: The US academic recovering in a hospital after being shot by suspected militants has made an “immeasurable" contribution to the medical college where she works, her colleague said on Friday...
There have been concerns about the IS group tapping support in Pakistan, a country awash with dozens of militant groups...
KARACHI: Academic activities will remain suspended at Karachi University (KU) on Thursday in protest against Dr Waheed-ur-Rehman’s murder, announced KU teachers at a press conference held in the arts auditorium on Wednesday evening...
It’s the fifth murder of a university teacher within the past two years in Karachi following which the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association’s Sindh chapter announced that...
However, Mr Thebo did say that Dr Rehman’s murder could be linked to the killing of another KU academic, Prof Shakeel Auj, who was shot dead on Sept 18 last year when he was going to attend a function organised in his honour at the Iranian Cultural Centre...
Prof Tauseef Ahmed of mass communication department of the Federal Urdu University, who had taught the slain academic, said that Dr Rehman had worked for his PhD under the...
ISLAMABAD: Two months after the commencement of the academic session, the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) has issued a revised syllabus for three subjects...
Students will now have to wait for new books, which will disrupt their studies in the middle of the academic session...
Officials of CTD, 40 varsities exchange views on radicalisation“Radicalisation [is] growing at academic institutes with the CTD assessing that the next generation of militants [is] more likely to have university education rather than a madressah background,” said Additional IG Dr Sanaullah Abbasi who heads the CTD in Sindh...
The CTD chief said there’s a need to sensitise academic institutes about the gravity of the problem...
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who this month picked up no less than the 44th honorary doctorate of his political career, likes nothing more than to give one of his trademark political speeches in full academic regalia...
But the president also has no intention of downplaying his academic achievements, and both he and his administration have moved to rubbish the claims...
LAHORE: As most schools’ new academic session is beginning across Punjab on Monday (today), the textbooks of different subjects are unavailable in the market, causing a lot of problems to the students...
EDUCATIONIST: The government has been urged to include educationists in policy-making in order to avoid what ‘social unrest’ in future Pakistan because of marginalisation of the poor through education...
Chan was a close colleague of pro-democracy leader Benny Tai, also an academic at HKU, and who helped orchestrate last year’s mass pro-democracy protests that brought parts of the semi-autonomous Chinese city to a standstill...
PESHAWAR: The Higher Education Department (HED), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has finally started academic and financial audit of the public sector universities in the province despite their strong resistance, according to sources...
It is for the first time that the provincial government would conduct the academic and financial audit of the universities, the official said...
Now, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species has been voted the academic book that changed the world the most by a British academic publishing trade group...
”Ahead of this month’s Academic Book Week, a project of Britain’s government-affiliated Academic Book of the Future project, 200 publishers submitted candidates...
The education minister is an abrasive Smriti Irani, of questionable academic credentials...
All these are comprised in the concept of academic freedom which no law can constitutionally curtail...
LAHORE: The Syndicate has delegated limited powers under the Government College University, Lahore Ordinance 2002 to Faculty of Science and Technology dean Prof Dr Islamullah Khan to address some of the financial and academic matters of the most urgent nature...