The CEO flew to India to hold a Q&A at a town hall for students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi on Wednesday where he interacted with students and faculty members and spoke for about 15 minutes before answering questions from the audience for an hour...
MINGORA: More than 40 scholars are presently busy in research for their PhD theses on the art, culture, traditions and ancient civilisation of Swat, says Dr Mohammad Ashraf Khan, the director of Taxila Institute of Ancient Civilisations at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad...
Cambridge University has put Stephen Hawking's doctoral thesis online, triggering such interest that it crashed the university's website...
Completed in 1966 when Hawking was 24, “Properties of Expanding Universes” explores ideas about the origins of the universe that have resonated through the scientist's career
LAHORE: A research scholar from the Islamic Republic of Iran has become the first international student to complete her PhD from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore...
Ms Sadatalshariyeh presented an excellent presentation about her doctoral thesis on “Analytical study of different approaches to the revitalization of Iranian historic city centers -- Case study, Yazd, Iran” and answered the questions of the MPhil and...
PESHAWAR: Only PhD degree holders can become vice-chancellors of public sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa now as provincial government has made major changes in the relevant law...
Although Higher Education Commission (HEC) had already fixed criteria for appointment of vice-chancellors under which they should be preferably PhD degree holders, yet several persons, who didn’t have PhD degrees, were appointed vice-chancellors in...
PESHAWAR: Young poet and writer Wazir Shadan has completed his PhD on “Contribution of Kohat to Pashto literature”...
It said that Mr Shadan earned appreciation from literary circle by completing his PhD thesis in a short span of time under the supervision of Dr Farkhanda...
Asif was awarded an honorary PhD in International Relations "for his dedication and commitment, as a veteran politician and lawmaker, to the true betterment of Pakistan both at home and abroad," the GSD website said...
KARACHI: While Karachi University (KU) has withdrawn its controversial notification on the university’s MPhil-leading-to-PhD programme, a number of research students are uncertain about their future as a clear university policy on it is still awaited, it emerged on Friday...
The trouble started when the university issued a notification on March 10 announcing new rules and regulations for MPhil-leading-to-PhD programme, sources said......
Evening PhD programmes, which are rare worldwide, are run by many private universities in this country...
Obtaining a PhD degree is especially challenging with a full-time job and if the doctoral candidate has a family...
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) in a joint venture with Australian government will provide 175 scholarships to Pakistani scholars to pursue PhD studies in Australian universities...
“Both sides agreed to start a joint scholarship programme for 175 Pakistani scholars to pursue PhD studies in Australian universities...
ISLAMABAD: Although faculty members who do not have PhDs or equivalent degrees have previously been appointed professors, the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has now decided that a PhD degree is a must for faculty members to be promoted to professors...
“It has been decided that, in the future, no faculty members will be promoted to professor without having a PhD or equivalent degree...
Sources said the university would award honorary PhD degrees to Haji Mohammad Hanif Tayyab and Sardar Yasin Malik...
He said the award of honorary PhD degrees to sitting syndicate members would be the first case in KU’s history and this “unfair practice” would set another wrong precedent...
PESHAWAR: Making an unrealistic announcement, Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Wednesday said PhD degree holders would teach in primary schools if his party came to power in the country after winning the next general elections...
Announcing salient features of the manifesto, Sirajul Haq said PhD teachers would be appointed to all primary schools across the country if the people elected his party to power through the next general...
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will send 10,000 scholars to the United States for PhD studies in next 10 years...
BESANGON: A woman aged 91 has become one of the oldest women in France to gain a PhD after she completed a thesis that she had begun three decades earlier...
She became interested in a PhD after she retired in 1983...