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Board of Intermediate Education Karachi BIEK announces policy for HSSC exam

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KARACHI: Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) Examination Controller Muhammad Imran Khan announced that the candidates who registered for the first time in Humanities and Commerce private groups for Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) annual examination 2012 would appear in HSSC part-I as fresh candidates.
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What is Distance Education

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Islamabad Appreciating initiatives taken NBEAC quality of business education in Pakistan, HEC Chairperson

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Business schools asked to get NBEAC accreditation Islamabad Appreciating the initiatives taken by the National Business Education Accreditation Council (NBEAC) for improvement of the quality of business education in Pakistan, HEC Chairperson Dr Javaid R. Laghari has emphasised the need to further enhance the efforts and advised business schools to immediately seek accreditation through NBEAC.

Dengue panic in Punjab education disturb BISE Lahore

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Lahore, Sep 19: The Punjab government, which is fully focused these days on dengue virus to combat the epidemic caused by it, seems oblivious to what is happening on the educational front.

Thousands of students have been suffering from the sheer negligence of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Lahore s officials in preparing result of intermediate annual examination 2011 as either their result is delayed or there are glaring errors in the result.
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On Education: Pearson Sends Education Commissioners on Free Trips

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In recent years, the Pearson Foundation has paid to send state education commissioners to meet with their international counterparts in London, Helsinki, Singapore and, just last week, Rio de Janeiro.
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extended date of admission University of Education

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DATE EXTENDED: The University of Education (UoE) has further extended the date for admission
to intermediate-based programmes on varsity’s campuses on Bank Road, Lower Mall, Joharabad, Multan, Okara, Dera Ghazi Khan as well as Division of Science and Technology from Sept 16 to 22.Dawn.

The Education Issue: Can Antioch College Return From the Dead Again?

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The long corridors of Antioch Hall are dark. The fluorescent lights, perhaps 50 years old and never updated, do not work. The vinyl floor tiles are loose. There are cobwebs and puddles on the floor, and the whole place smells of mold. You have to squint, almost, to picture this four-story brick building as the birthplace of one of the most vaunted experiments in American higher education.
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The Education Issue: Why We Need For-Profit Colleges

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Last month, a company called Education Management Corporation was sued by the Department of Justice. Education Management is a for-profit education company; in fact, it is the country’s second-largest such company, with more than 150,000 students attending classes on more than 100 campuses, where it offers degrees in business, accounting and nursing, among other subjects.
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The Education Issue: My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling

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The phone rang, and my stomach clenched when I heard her voice. “Daddy? I want to go home,” said my 8-year-old daughter, Arden. Two hours earlier, I dropped Arden and her two siblings off at their new school in a squat building in a forest of Soviet-era apartment blocks on Krasnoarmeyskaya (Red Army) Street in Moscow. They hugged me goodbye, clinging a little too long, and as I rode the metro to my office, I said a kind of silent prayer to myself that they would get through the day without falling apart.
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Azad Jammu and Kashmir Federating units Joint international commitments Declaration education

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The top political leadership of the country, all the federating units and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) signed a Joint Declaration on Education to meet international commitments, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), on Friday.
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