Lahore:28 June:Speakers at a post budget session on Monday expressed concern at the progressive decline in share of education sector in the provincial budget over the past few years.

Statistics shared at the session organised by Alif Ailaan showed that in 2013-14 26 per cent of the provincial budget was allocated to the education sector. The share of the sector came down to 24 per cent in 2014-15 and to 21.4 per cent in 2015-16.

In the 2016-17 budget, funds allocated for the education sector came to 18.6 per cent of the provincial budget.

Lahore:27 June:All the principals of medical colleges have been directed to resolve the managerial issues, maintain discipline, ensure presence of doctors, nurses, cleanliness and functioning of biomedical equipment in their attached teaching hospitals within a month.

Government, for the first time has allocated Rs24 billion for specialised healthcare and medical education and all the officers concerned have to work hard to achieve the targets fixed by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

LAHORE:25 June: Punjab Planning & Development Department Chairman Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan on Friday inaugurated the Knowledge Management Centre at the P&D Complex inside the Punjab Civil Secretariat.

LAHORE:25 June: Punjab University (PU) Syndicate meeting, scheduled by ‘look after’ Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, on Saturday was spoiled by scuffle between two groups of the teachers in the Syndicate room.

According to the details, PU Law College Assistant Professor Naeem Ullah physically assaulted his colleague Dr Naveed Ahmad, adding that Institute of Quality and Technology Management Assistant Professor (IQTM) Dr Muhammad Shafiq manhandled Syndicate member Shamaila Gull and threatened her of consequences.

Lahore:June 25: Punjab University has awarded PhDs to two scholars in different subjects.Ghulam Haider, son of Punu Khan, has been awarded a PhD in Special Education after approval of his thesis entitled “The Writing Processes of Students with Learning Difficulties in L2 (English) Composition: Protocol Analysis.” Park Kyo Soun, s/o Park Ho Sik, has been awarded  a PhD in History after approval of his thesis entitled “Identification of Buddisht Historical Record in Pakistan.The news.

Lahore:June 25:Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday formed a committee to devise a plan for arrangement of emergency medical care at universities in the province.

The decision was taken in view of a report submitted by the CM’s Inspection Team on the death of University of Engineering and Technology (UET) student Moeen Manzoor on Friday.

The report stated that the student had died of heart attack. It said there was no arrangement at the university for provision of emergency medical care.

Lahore:June 25:Punjab University has issued date sheets of BBA (Hons.), first, second and third years, second annual examinations 2015, and revised date sheet of BSc (Engg) Electrical Engineering first semester examination 2016.The details are available at www.pu.edu.pk.The news.

Rawalpindi:June 25:The education department has received over 7,000 applications for 730 vacant posts of Grade-4 with some of the applicants applied on the letter heads of MNAs and MPAs, the sources said here on Thursday.

MULTAN:June 23:A seven-year-old student at a seminary in a Laar police precinct was beaten up by his teacher on Wednesday. The child’s parents told The Express Tribune that their son and his friends had apparently hidden the teacher’s shoes and he had flared up because of that.

Lahore:June 23:Virtual University (VU) and University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for research, development, innovation and joint education.

VU Rector Dr Naveed A Malik and UET Taxila Vice-Chancellor Dr Niaz Ahmad Akhtar signed the MoU. Both the institutions agreed to exchange relevant technical information and provide support in the field of education.

Rawalpindi:June 21:The Punjab government has constituted a team to probe into the distribution mechanism and find out whether any kind of irregularity was conducted during distribution of laptops among the university students in the Rawalpindi district.

The committee comprising Prof. Shafaq Dar, Prof. Muhammad Saleem and Lecturer Saleem Bhatti would get details about distribution mechanism from various universities including Arid University Rawalpindi, Government Post Graduate College (Sixth Road) and Rawalpindi Medical College.

LAHORE:June 20: Students of the Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT) have won nine out of 11 competitions in the recently organised SoftExpo 2016, Daily Times has learnt.

Lahore:June 18:National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDCL) has started an internship programme for 300 students of 30 universities of the country as part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The orientation ceremony was held on Friday at Wapda House.

Lahore:June 18:Punjab University Institute of Communication Studies and Overseas Pakistanis Commission, Punjab, have signed a memorandum Of understanding (MoU) to provide internship facilities to the students of the institute.

The MoU signing ceremony was held at Punjab University Vice-Chancellor’s office, according to a handout issued here on Friday.