SAN FRANCISCO — An interactive online learning system created by two Stanford computer scientists plans to announce Wednesday that it has secured $16 million in venture capital and partnerships with four major universities. Enlarge This Image Coursera Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, the Stanford computer scientists who created Coursera. The scientists, Andrew Ng and Daphne [...]
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are teaming up to expand their online education programs – and they’re inviting other institutions to come on board. Called edX, the $60 million joint venture builds on MIT’s existing MITx platform that enables video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, online laboratories and student-paced learning. “EdX [...]
LAHORE: A youngest girl from Lahore having M.Ed degree has been selected for Guinness Book of World Records. Fatima Namdar has completed her M.Ed in the age of 19 years, 08 months and 12 days. She started her education career in 1995 from govt. Aziz-e-Millat Girls Middle School Sandah. She completed her Matriculation from government [...]
KARACHI: A Pakistani scholar has devised a non-invasive way to sense brain pressure which could significantly change the current paradigm of neurological care of those suffering from brain injury or disease. Monitoring intracranial pressure (ICP) is the most important thing to assess brain injury, hemorrhage (internal blood flow), tumors and other neurological problems. But current [...]
ISLAMABAD – Quaid-i-Azam University will host a three-day international conference on ‘Emerging Issues of Social Sciences’ on April 27 in collaboration with Higher Education Commission (HEC), American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), Council of Social Sciences (COSS), National Testing Services, Inter-Universities Consortium for the Promotion of Social Scien ces and Humanities in Pakistan, and Committee [...]
Quaid-I-Azam University has been declared as top of Pakistan after an overall performance evaluation by the Higher Education Commission (HEC). A total of 136 public and private universities were evaluated by the Quality Assurance Committee of the HEC on the criteria of research, learning standard and annual examination results. Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied [...]
Musa Rahim Khan, a student from Chitral is going to represent the country in the prestigious Intel Science and Engineering Fair in the United States. His project ‘Water and Heat Detector’, presented at Allama Iqbal Open University’s science competition has won a grand winning prize and Rahim will exhibit his project in Pittsburgh, a city [...]
Ms. Saima Mahmood, a PhD graduate of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), has won the prestigious European Foundation Award for outstanding doctoral research from the European Foundation for Management Development in the Human Resource Management Category. Her research was supervised by Dr. Asad Zaman, Professor of Economics at the International Islamic University, Islamabad. [...]
Zohaib Asad, a student of Beaconhouse, earned 28 As in the University of Cambridge International O-Level Examinations in 2011. He overtook a record of 23 As, also set by a Pakistani student from Islamabad Ibrahim Shahid. Gilani invited Asad to the Prime Minister House on Thursday and lauded him for making Pakistan’s youth proud. He [...]
A promising Khyber Pakhtunkhwa student who boldly stood up for girls education in face of threats from the Taliban has been awarded a runner-up prize by the Dutch organisation ‘KidsRights.’ Malala Yousafzai, a 13-year-old student of the Swat Valley, has earned herself ‘International Children’s Peace Prize’ instituted by the Dutch organisation. Yousufzai was one of only five [...]