Education

A study co-authored by researchers from the Department of Community Health Sciences and Medicine at the Aga Khan University has discovered the presence of second-hand smoking (SHS) in an alarming 95% of children in Pakistan and Bangladesh. SHS occurs when people around an active smoker […]

Islamabad, June 28, 2024: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) via its Higher Education Development Programme in Pakistan (HEDP) conducted the first-ever Learning Skills Assessment Test (LSAT) in affiliated colleges/universities across Pakistan. More than 5,000 students, showing a uniform regional, urban and rural, and gender representation, […]

Islamabad, June 25, 2024: The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) / Education Testing Council (ETC) has introduced the Undergraduate Studies Admissions Test (USAT) as a standardized tool for assessing student admissions to universities. USAT is designed to ensure quality in the admissions process by […]

Islamabad, June 21, 2024: The Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan has once again alerted students and parents to avoid taking admission in the two-year BA, BSc and MA, MSc degree programmes. HEC had phased out two-year BA/BSc and MA/MSc programmes with extended deadlines of the […]

Islamabad, June 15, 2024: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) via its Higher Education Development in Pakistan (HEDP) recently concluded the professional capacity building needs assessment report for the higher education institutions (HEIs)of Punjab and Sindh province. A total of 4,049 respondents from 52 different public […]

Islamabad, June 7, 2024: A delegation of the Faculty of Geoinformation and Earth Observation, University of Twente (ITC), The Netherlands visited Higher Education Commission (HEC) called on Chairman HEC Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed and other senior HEC officers. The visit of Dutch delegation, led by Dr. Mark […]

Multan: The National Agriculture Education Accreditation Council (NAEAC), Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) Pakistan are partnering to introduce new courses on “Food System Transformation” in Pakistani universities. This initiative aligns with the Government of Pakistan’s commitment to […]

ISLAMABAD, May 26 (APP):Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will commence the examination of Middle Tech program scheduled from June 8 to 14 and semester was offered in autumn 2023. The students have already been informed through mobile SMS, said a press release. It is pertinent […]

The Aga Khan University Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME) launched its first-ever international conference, SIMPACT 2024, in Karachi, Pakistan, and Nairobi, Kenya. SIMPACT 2024 brings together a diverse array of simulation professionals, including doctors, nurses, educators, researchers, engineers, students, expert and industry leaders, […]

Islamabad, May 15, 2024: University of the Punjab (PU), Lahore and National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad have respectively won the national rounds of Urdu and English debate contests of the Pakistan Universities Debating Championship 2023-24. Chairman HEC Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed was chief […]