Pakistan First Online Education Institute is a free education resource which teaches non conventional subjects to education seekers for free with help of volunteer teachers. Idea is simple, if you are in academic or technical field, and want to teach a course of any kind (most likely to be related with your field), Pakistan First will help you create courses with enough resources. You will [...]

Mobilink has announced its countrywide programme of selecting top students as Mobilink Brand Ambassadors (MBAs) from among the leading universities of Pakistan. The Mobilink Brand Ambassador Programme, which kicked off at IBA Sukkur aims to select students with an exceptional flair for marketing. The selected individuals will act as Mobilink Brand Ambassadors amongst the youth. The Mobilink Brand Ambassador programme is an initiative by Mobilink [...]

I want to share this picture, which claims that every kid happens to be intelligent by nature; hence they are offering such a miraculous tuition course that you can go through from Nursery to FSC in just 60 days…! If we think, this is possible than we must see this place and let’s not waste 12 to 14 years – but if you think this [...]

Ali Moeen Nawazish – An 18-year old wiz-kid from Rawalpindi wanted to get into Cambridge, so he sat in seven A-Levels exams in just one year – and secured 22 A-grades, one    B grade and a C! Click here to View Ali’s Interview The Urdu, English and Punjabi speaking wiz-kid is due to win another place – in the Guinness Book of Records. His Cambridge [...]

Higher Education Commission (HEC) has planned to soon initiate online verification of degrees of students intending to visit abroad for further education. This was stated by Member Operations and Planning HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmad. The commission would verify degrees and certificates of students intending to get admissions abroad, in Pakistani universities or for getting jobs through online procedure, he said. He admitted that the recent [...]

Following the Intel Provincial Science Olympiads held recently across Sindh, ICT, Punjab and Baluchistan where young scientists presented innovative research-based projects in the categories of biology, chemistry, computer sciences, mathematics and physics, Intel Pakistan Corporation marked the end of its nation-wide science competitions with the Intel National Science Olympiad held today. Widely attended by youth from all across Pakistan, the National Science Olympiad, which is [...]

Students of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT) have developed robots that can pick and place objects in places dangerous for humans, a remote vehicle control and monitoring system and an enterprise planning system for Thermal Power House Jamshoro besides many other projects using advance technology. The students of the final year had put on display their projects at an exhibition. A group [...]

Jameel Ahmed Memon has become Pakistan’s First ITIL V.3 certified. ITIL is a public framework that describes Best Practice in IT service management. It provides a framework for the governance of IT and focuses on the continual measurement and improvement of the quality of IT service delivered, from both a business and a customer perspective, it is not technology oriented. Since the mid 1990s, ITIL [...]

The scarcity of IT professionals in our homeland, Pakistan is an issue of much discussion these days. The reasons attributed to this are, primarily the “brain drain” whereby IT professionals have left the country for greener pastures and that Pakistan has not produced enough IT professionals to provide for the current requirements in various segments of industry and commercial and government organizations. Let us now [...]

It was 2002 when telecom education was the concern for every new passed intermediate education level. As usual, universities were ready to give admissions to all candidates by certain conditions and procedures. We saw most of universities starting registering students, even if they were not officially allowed by HEC to offer Telecom engineering courses. Well, while applying for Telecom Engineering, Computer Engineering or any relevant [...]

Guest Post By Nazakat Hussain Internet equipped computers are now widely used in schools, and 100′s of millions of children and teenagers around the world use computers for educational and leisure purposes. Unfortunately there are many aspects of the use of home computers and their associated use can be of concern to parents. As our families become increasingly intertwined with it, the more active role [...]

Atif Shamim, a Pakistani electronics PhD student at Carleton University, has built a prototype that extends the battery life of mobile phones, by getting rid of all the wires used to connect the electronic circuits with the antenna. The invention involves a packaging technique to connect the antenna with the circuits via a wireless connection between a micro-antenna embedded within the circuits on the chip. [...]

I cannot forget that day in my life, when my brother bought me 486 computer for Rs. 45,000/- and soon I started to explore windows 3.1 & Windows 95 on this expensive machine. Today after almost 10 years, things have changed a lot, and so are the prices for computers. But unfortunately, we, as a nation are still immature in terms of using computers and [...]

Bloggers in Pakistan today proved their existence in real lives, when more than 100 bloggers engaged themselves in an exciting gathering at SC-4 Hall, LUMS – Lahore. This meet-up is meant to be the start of a journey that was badly required from a community that has been actively playing its role to fulfill Pakistan’s online needs. Though bloggers have been aggressively reporting about social, [...]

Pakistan is no doubt the richest nation for OOB (out of box) ideas. Once I met this gora  who said to me you  know , what your country has? I asked what? He said, the instantaneous OOB approaches everywhere; but I am feeling sorry (Gora said) they do not have enough resources to convert these ideas into industry practice so that they can also emerge [...]