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Top 600 World University Rankings

Dear Alumni This following is from Moin Ahmed, NEDUET, Mech Class of 1974 The Times of London published recently its 2008 World Rankings…

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8 Feb 23
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Pakistani Research Scientist Working at CERN Lab, Switzerland

One of the most important discoveries in Physics since Einstein's Theory of Relativity has possibly just been made at CERN and dozens of Pa…

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7 Jun 28, 2023
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Quality of Higher Education in India

A few Indian schools in top tier, such as the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), can be reasonably compared to world-class schoo…

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12 Dec 26, 2022
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Pakistan's Space Program

The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), best known as the SUPARCO (Urdu:ا سپا ر كو or پاکستان خلائی و بالا فضائی تحقی…

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30 Dec 20, 2022
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State of Higher Education in Pakistan

There was renewed attention paid to higher education in Pakistan with dramatic budget increases of up to 15X between 2001 and 2007 under Pr…

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11 Dec 4, 2022
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YouTube for Science & Tech Education? Can it help engineering education and research in Pakistan?

Yes, it's true. Phil Bourne of University of California at San Diego has launched a new website SciVee to let researchers publish their wor…

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1 Nov 27, 2022
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US probes into the link between vaping and lung disease after patient dies

US authorities scrambled to find the link between vaping and the lung disease after a patient who had recently been vaping has died in the…

Started by Sobia Anjum

0 Aug 24, 2019

Technical and Vocational Training in Pakistan

As technology begins to permeate every aspect of life in Pakistan, the country needs a balanced mix of highly skilled workers, technicians,…

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0 Jul 29, 2018

Facts and Myths in Globalization Debate

It is becoming increasingly important for nations to build knowledge-based economies to effectively compete and win in a globalized world.…

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1 Jun 25, 2018
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Sal Khan of Khan Academy on Improving Higher Education

Khan Academy founder has two big ideas for overhauling higher education in the sciences December 14, 2014 3:00 PM Gregory Ferenstein…

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1 Jun 19, 2018
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    World Happiness Report 2025: Poor Ranking Makes Indians Very Unhappy

    Pakistan has outranked India yet again on the World Happiness Index, making Indians very very unhappy. Indian media commentators' strong negative emotional reaction to their nation's poor ranking  betrays how unhappy they are even as they insist they are happier than their neighbors. Coming from the privileged upper castes, these commentators call the report "…

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    Posted by Riaz Haq on March 22, 2025 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

    Pakistan Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) Points to Growth in Manufacturing

    Pakistan Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), jointly launched by Habib Bank (HBL) and S&P Global, is showing sustained growth in manufacturing for the last several months.  It has been consistently above 50, indicating expansion. This indicator disagrees with contraction reported by Pakistan Bureau and Statistics (PBS) Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) indicator. What accounts for this discrepancy? Is it because the LSM tracks only a subset of industries tracked by PMI? Is there a difference…

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    Posted by Riaz Haq on March 18, 2025 at 5:00pm

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