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LAHORE: The Punjab University Library and Iqbal Academy Pakistan have signed a memorandum of understanding for the scanning of rare books of Allama Iqbal with side notes on every book in his own.
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Give education 5% of GDP, demands VCs
Current HEC budget insufficient to meet growing education needs
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By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Keeping in view the COVID-19 pandemic and high inflation rate, it seems next to impossible for the higher education sector to sustain without a significant increase in education funding in the forthcoming budget.
The government should make a substantial increase in the education budget and announce a special relief package in the coming budget in order to meet the growing education needs and cope with the modern days requirements.
These views were expressed by Vice-Chancellors and other representatives while addressing at 2nd live webinar on the topic of “Budget 2021-22: Needs & Expectations of Higher Education Sector” organized by Association of Private Sector Universities Pakistan (APSUP), Superior University, Inter-University Consortium for Promotion of Social Sciences Pakistan (IUCPSS), University of Lahore, Government Colleg
PU organises geological congress after 30 years
Experts from Netherlands, Germany and Turkey joined as panellists
Punjab University. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE:
Punjab University (PU) Institute of Geology on Wednesday organised the 6th Pakistan Geological Congress (PGC-21) themed ‘Recent Developments in Himalayan Geology’ after a gap of 30 years.
PU Pro Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Saleem Mazhar said the main objective of the congress was to bring together the leading national and international geoscientists from academia and industry to promote research.
He said the exchange of research and experience sharing would enable the facilitation of a thorough investigation of geological phenomena.
Dr Dauwee from the Netherlands, Dr Nuretin from Turkey, Dr Abdul Qayyum from Netherlands and Dr Hummad Ghani from Germany, Dr Nadeem from UEPL, Tahir Maqsood from the oil industry, Dr Nawaz Chaudhary and Dr Armaghan Faisal from Punjab University participated in the webinar and delivered lecture