ISLAMABAD: Singapore-based international organisation CropLife Asia — carrying out research and development to introduce innovations in crop protection and plant bio-technology — has suggested that Pakistan should introduce bio-technology to enhance farm production beyond self-sufficiency...
“Pakistan is on track, and after attaining self-sufficiency in food, the country is set to introduce bio-technology to make agricultural...
FEDERAL Minister for National Food Security Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan says his ministry has taken a number of ‘bold steps’ to facilitate the introduction of biotechnology in the country to meet certain challenges, including food security...
The government, according to him, ‘endorses the positive use’ of biotechnology for public welfare...
Sindh Education Minister Jam Mehtab on Wednesday confessed that the provincial government was unsuccessful in achieving the goals that it had set for itself in the education sector...
"I'll be honest: I could not bring about the reforms I wanted to introduce in the province's education sector," Mehtab said in an interview with DawnNews...
ISLAMABAD: The government will not cut the higher education’s budget for fiscal year 2022-23...
This was pointed out by Minister for Education Rana Tanvir Hussain and Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal as they reassured heads of public-sector universities that there would be no cut in budget for education...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan lags far behind the Education for All (EFA) goals, says EFA Global Monitoring report launched here on Wednesday...
According to the report, Pakistan is among 18 most low income countries, which were far from achieving EFA as a whole...
ISLAMABAD: Despite an increase in the 2015-16 education budget Pakistan’s current expenditure on education is the lowest in South Asia...
“Pakistan has a literacy rate of 58pc, which has improved from 35pc in 1990-91, but still way behind the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target of 88pc, which was to be achieved by the end of 2015,” a report launched on Wednesday stated...
The schools under discussion here are among the most popular, top-tier 'brands' of education...
Everything is proceeding as usual, while the schools happily hold children’s education hostage — they know that parents will eventually pay whatever the schools want...
According to statistics, there are over seven million gypsies living in Pakistan...
“We give high quality education to our own children, and send them to the best institutions...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is lagging behind other South Asian countries in education and has a poor Adjudged Net Enrolment Rate (ANER) and a high school dropout rate, said Nasir Amin, the in-charge of National Education Management Information System (NIMS)...
Speaking at the National Convention of Parents on Monday, Mr Amin said that the education system can be revived and revolutionised with help from the public...
ISLAMABAD: The mushroom growth of medical and dental colleges coupled with the enhancement of seats by the existing colleges have created a severe shortage of faculty members due to which the quality of medical education is continuously going down in the country...
However, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) President Dr Shabir Lehri claimed that the council had introduced a faculty exchange programme to maintain the quality...
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Tuesday, during a hearing on Pakistan Medical and Dental Council's (PMDC) legal status and its regulation, stressed on the need for a uniformed educational setup all over Pakistan...
"There is no better jewel than education," the chief justice, who was presiding a three-member bench, remarked, adding, "Is it possible for the entire country to have one book, one bag and one uniform? Innocent children...
According to Radio Pakistan, avenues of multi-faceted cooperation between the two sides were discussed during the meeting, including cooperation in education and health sectors as well as skill enhancement of the youth...
PM Khan recalled that Japan External Trade Organisation in its 2018 report recognised Pakistan as one of the top friendly destinations for Japanese investment...
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank will assist Pakistan in developing a new model of non-formal education that it said would combine literacy, labour market skills and life skills development for uneducated and illiterate children, youth and young adults in selected districts of Punjab and Sindh, it’s learnt...
The government has been developing the new roadmap for the country’s education system under the new leadership since the summer of...
Markets and malls across Pakistan are open for business and brimming with people, but schools and colleges remain deserted and show no signs of reopening soon...
Government officials and education experts fear that schools may not reopen for another six months, particularly in remote areas where safety guidelines, hygiene and social distancing rules, are hard to implement...
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has initiated preparation of a programme to strengthen federal and provincial governments’ institutions, policies and coordination for reducing the impact of external shocks on the education system, and increasing access to quality education in disadvantaged districts of the country, according to reliable sources...
A World Bank team has started working with the government to adjust national priorities as...