Education

Every year in Pakistan, thousands of students pay admission fees, study for four years, and then discover the painful truth: their degree is not recognised. The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will not attest it, employers will not accept it, and the years and money spent are effectively wasted. This happens...

ISLAMABAD: The FPSC October exams will go ahead as scheduled, the Federal Public Service Commission has confirmed, with the CSS screening test set for October 10. The MCQ-based Preliminary Test for the CSS 2027 cycle will be held on Saturday, October 10. Phase III of the General Recruitment Tests will...

LONDON: University College London has announced two fully funded PhD studentships starting in October 2027, and Pakistani graduates are eligible to apply for both. The first studentship, titled Compound Wind and Rainfall Extremes over Europe, combines climate modelling, extreme-value statistics and machine learning. It is being run in collaboration with...

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission has published the HEC recognised institutions list, asking students and parents to check a university's status before seeking admission. The lists cover recognised universities and degree-awarding institutions, recognised campuses, recognised transnational education providers, and institutions declared illegal, fake or unrecognised. The HEC has warned that...

Six months after the academic session began in the first week of April, scores of pupils at government primary schools for boys and girls across Bajaur district are still without their free textbooks. Residents of Lowi Mamund, War Mamund, Salarzai, Nawagai and Barang tehsils say the missing Bajaur textbooks,...

Pakistan has 56 universities in the THE Rankings 2027, but not one of them broke into the world's top 500, according to the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings published on Tuesday. Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad is the country's highest-placed institution, sitting in the 551-600 band....

Punjab’s examination boards are set to replace physical paper checking with on-screen marking, starting with a pilot for the supplementary examinations. Answer scripts will be scanned into secure digital records and assigned electronically to authorised examiners on a controlled online platform, on the direction of Education Minister Rana Sikandar...

World Teachers' Day is almost here. On Monday, 5 October 2026, schools and colleges across Pakistan will celebrate the teachers who shape our lives, one lesson at a time. In Pakistan, we observe Teachers' Day on 5 October together with the rest of the world, and it has become...

On October 5, Pakistan Stands With Its Teachers Behind every doctor in a Karachi hospital, every engineer building a motorway in Punjab, and every lawyer arguing in a Lahore courtroom, there is a teacher. Someone who stayed a little later, believed a little more, and gave a little extra. On...

Introduction The world will celebrate World Teachers’ Day 2026 on Monday, 5 October, a day dedicated to honouring the teachers who educate more than a billion children and young people across the globe. In Pakistan, where classrooms stretch from crowded city schools to one-room village schools, the day gives millions...