Monthly Archives: February 2013

Karachi Literature Festival 2013 Organizes by Oxford University Press

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Oxford University Press has made necessary arrangements for the celebration of three days Karachi Literature Festival for the year 2013 from February 15 to 17, 2013. This film festival is going to be organized at the Beach Luxury Hotel Karachi as Karachi Jashan-e-Adab festival which is open and free for all. This festival has already been celebrated from 2010 which includes different types of episodes like mushairah, lectures, debates, book launches, book fair, discussion, creative writing workshop, readings and signings. The organizers have also arranged the festival in the main city this time for the ease of the public and they also going to arrange the Children Literature Festival with the help of Karachi Literature Festival.

Karachi Literature Festival 2013

Karachi Literature Festival 2013

The organizers and the sponsors of Oxford University Press and director by Ameena Saiydi and the co-founder this festival like Asif Farrukhi and Ameena Saiydi showed their satisfaction over the increasing of number of attendants in the festival. When this festival was started in 2010, then the number of people was only 5,000 but in2011 this number of people increased to 10,000 and in 2012 this number was also increased to about 15,000. It is also expected that this year the number of people will be grown much as it is also arranged in the heart of the city. This festival also held the number of session 34 and there were the speaker performers were only 35 in 2010, but in 2011 the number of sessions was increased to about 46 and the speakers performers rose to 102. The number of speaker performers rose to 140 and the number of sessions was rose to 62. It is also expected that there will be speaker performers 214 and the number of sessions will be 129 and this festival will be continued for 3 days.

The organizers has decided that the festival will be celebrated in twelve countries like India, Pakistan, Palestine, Nepal, Italy, France, Germany, United States, UK, Russia, Canada and Sweden and the authors who will be included in this festival will write in nine different languages like Italian, Urdu-Hindi, French, German, English, Sindhi, Russian, Punjabi and Swedish. The fields which are included for creative writings are included art for booking making for children, theatre, film, photography, puppetry, spoken word poetry and dance.

The festival management has made the arrangements for giving away prizes for the best non-fiction book written in English by a Pakistani which have been published the last year are Dt Jaffer Ahmed Juried, Zubeida Mustafa and Ghazi Salahuddin who won the award in 2011. The prize awarding to the authors was about 1,00,000 and now in the current year this prize will be about 1.50,000 which will be awarded to the best non-fiction English writer.

MA Final External Exams Results Announce by KU

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Karachi, The controller of Examination of University of Karachi has announced the results of external exams of MA final classes being conducted by the Karachi University.

There are as many as 2696 candidates who got registered with the University but only 2580 candidates appeared in the exams out of which 1167 candidates were passed the final MA exams and remaining 1410 candidates were declared unsuccessful. The university held the result of 3 candidates due to some unknown reasons. The University has also declared that there are only 41 candidates who got the first division and 1125 candidates stood in the second division and four candidates stayed in the third division.

The first position was shared by two students, named Nehel Khalid Khanani and Farzana Mansoor Ali and Kanza Saleem secured second position in the exams while Faisal Ellahi was the only male students who got third position in the whole exams.

Establishment of National Centre for Resettlement and Rehabilitation in PU

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Lahore, National Center for Resettlement and Rehabilitation is going to be established at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies of Punjab University. This center is going to be established with the collaboration of the World Bank, which will give training for programs, academic research activities and policy guidelines for the relocation and restoration of the challenges.

Vice Chancellor of Punjab University Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran held a meeting with the delegation of World bank comprising of the Development Specialist Mr Chaohua Zhang, Environment and Resettlement Specialist of NESPAK Mr Irfan ul Haq and Director ISCS and Dean Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences Prof Dr Muhammad Zakariya Zakir. The VC thanked the delegation and said that this university will handle the development requirements and challenges of the Pakistani society. He also presented the University souvenir to the guests.

LCWU Conducts First Job Fair 2013

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Lahore, Lahore College for Women University has made arrangements to conduct the first job fair for the year 2013 which is planned to be held in the last week of this month.

The University has made arrangements of a meeting with the top businessmen of the city yesterday in the syndicate room in which about 30 Directors, CEOs and owners of the companies participated. The Vice Chancellor of LCWU, Prof Dr Sabiha Mansoor presided over the meeting in which she emphasized on the industrial relations, classifying gaps hindering in the employability of the female graduates and enhancement of the economic authorization. The participants also got their registration done with the university and they assured that their company will also set up their stalls there in the job fair.

KU Announces Supply Exams Result MBBS/BDS

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Karachi, The Examination department of Karachi University has announced the result of final professional supplementary exams for the year 2012 of MBBS/BDS.

In MBBS final professional supply exams result, 66 candidates appeared in the exams out of which 47 candidates passed and in this way, the pass percentage becomes 71.12%.

Similarly, in the BDS final professional supply exams result, 101 candidates appeared in the exams out of which 89 candidates passed in the exams and the pass percentage becomes 88.45%.

Karachi University BDS Result

Karachi University MBBS Result

AIOU Offers Admissions to Continuing Students

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AIOU has informed that the students who are enrolled in autumn 2012 and they want to get further education, the university has dispatched the admission forms on their home addresses for admission in the next semester of spring 2013. If any student who does not receive the admission forms, he can download the admission forms from the website of the university. The students of previous semesters are also eligible to get admission in the spring 2013 semester. The University has issued complete schedule for the submission of admission forms with the admission fee.

The candidates can submit their admission forms to the University with regular fee from January 21 to March 04, 2013 and they can also submit the admission forms with the late fee along with the regular fee for Matric class Rs.100, for inter/graduate class Rs.200, for master/B.Ed class Rs.500 from March 05 to March 15, 2013. The University has also  provided opportunity to the students for the submission of admission forms along with late fee for Matric Rs.200, for inter/graduate Rs.400 and for master/B.Ed for Rs.1000 from March 16, 2013 to March 25, 2013.

PU Declares Results of MBBS & MA Programs

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Lahore, The Examination Department, University of the Punjab has announced the result of MBBS and various other disciplines.

According to the detailed information given by the Exams Department of the Punjab University, the results of MBBS first professional annual exams Part I for the year 2012 and MA Educational Research and Assessment, Islamic Education (self supporting), Islamic Education, Education (Early Childhood) self supporting, Education (Early Childhood), Science Education (self supporting), Science Education. The exams were conducted on the semester system for the session 2010-12.

Admissions Start in Aga Khan University 2013

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Karachi, Aga Khan University Karachi has announced admissions in different post-graduate programs and now they are accepting the applications from the candidates.

The University administration has announced that the admission process is continued in MSc Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Nursing, Health Policy and Management, MHPE, M.Ed, Post RN, BSc in Nursing, Advance Diploma in Health Profession Education and Human Development (Early Child Development).

The University has also uploaded complete information regarding application forms, admission procedure and program details for the convenience of the students so if they feel any problems or they have any query then they should visit the website of the University for getting complete information from there. The University is also provided the financial assistance to the candidates on the need base.

PGD in Montessori Teachers Training Admission Start by PU

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Lahore, The Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab has started admission process in the PGD course in the Montessori Teachers Training for the year 2013. The course will last for one year and classes will be held in the evening time.

The eligibility criteria of the candidates, will be passed in the graduation classes. The candidates should submit their application forms to the main office of the department till February 20, 2013 and the eligible candidates will be selected and the new classes will be started from February 28, 2013 from 3:00 pm to 05:30 pm and these classes will be conducted twice in a week. The course for the PGD class will be comprised of Mathematics, Exercises of Practical Life, Language Development, Sensorial Development and Child Development through Cultural Components.

The University has introduced this sophisticated course at master level since 2007 to meet the ever-increasing demand of Montessori teachers from public and private sector for giving sophisticated education to the students at the beginning level.

Summer Admissions Start in Institute of Business Management 2013

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The admission process for summer 2013 is going to be started in the Institute of Business Management. The Institute announces the disciplines in which admissions are being granted like MSc, BE, MS, MPhil, MBA and PhD programs.

The candidates who want to get admission in the Institute of Business Management can collect the admission application forms from the main office of the campus of the Institute or they can also download the admission application forms from February 02 to 21, 2013. The Institute administration can also receive the admit cards from February 04 to 21, 2013 in the main office of the Institute. The candidates can submit the admission forms from 09:00 am to 04:30 pm except Friday on all working days. The candidates will also have to appear for the Aptitude test, which will be held on March 02, 2013 at 10:30 in the morning.