Few graduates could not receive their medals during convocation ceremony due to non availability

Few graduates could not receive their medals during convocation ceremony due to non availability

Bahawalpur ( PR ) The spokesmen of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur has said that a few graduates could not receive their medals during convocation ceremony held on 15^th February, 2016 due to non availability. The medals will be provided to these graduates as soon as received to the university. The spokesman added that university has scheduled convocation twice a year to remove previous backlog. It is pertinent to mention here that the university has organized total seven convocations during 39 years of history and now within a span of one year, two convocations have been held on 10^th December 2015 and 15 February 2016 to award degrees and medals to graduates of sessions 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively. 

GB delegation to visit PEF today                                           
LAHORE(PR)An 8-member delegation of Gilgit-Baltistan Government led by Secretary Education Sanaullah will visit the head office of Punjab Education Foundation today. On the occasion, Chairman and MD PEF will brief the delegation about working and future goals of the Punjab Education Foundation in the education sector.

          Meanwhile, the weekly coordination meeting of program directors of the Punjab Education Foundation was held on Wednesday at the head office with Managing Director Tariq Mahmood in the chair. The meeting reviewed in detail the expansion goals and other initiatives for extending free educational opportunities to the low income families who cannot afford schooling of their children for want of resources.

MD PEF said that expansions in different public private partnership based educational programs were being achieved according to their targets. This has been helping to further extend free educational facilities to the children in need. He expressed the satisfaction that due to the educational initiatives, PEF has been enabled to serve to the children of nomad families dwelling in the vast Cholistan desert as well as encouraging the parents to send their girls to PEF sponsored schools which are available in the close vicinity.

After launching of digital monitoring of partner schools, district monitoring mechanism has also been established to ensure smooth state of affairs. PEF is the largest program of providing free education to the needy children which is enabling them to change their lives through education, concluded the MD.