Miles beneath the Earth’s surface, where no light or air reaches, tiny organisms are eking out a meager existence.Yet despite making up an estimated 6 percent of all life on Earth, researchers know almost nothing about these deep-dwellers. And scientists have failed to culture, or grow, the bacteria in the lab, making it difficult to […]
Read MoreSara Al-Mulla “One Thousand and One Nights,” also known as “Arabian Nights,” remains one of the most cherished and magical works in Arab literature. This collection of Middle Eastern folk tales takes the reader on a journey to the region, where he or she encounters bustling markets, adventurous voyages, love stories and mysterious supernatural creatures.The […]
Read MoreJames Gallagher London: Schools and universities may need to close, on top of tier 4 restrictions, to bring the new UK coronavirus variant under control, a rapid analysis says.The work, which is still preliminary, calculates the variant is spreading 56% faster than other forms of the virus. The researchers at the London School of Hygiene […]
Read MoreA new global analysis led by Imperial College London, and published in journal The Lancet, has assessed the height and weight of school-aged children and adolescents across the world.The study, which used data from 65 million children aged five to 19 years old in 193 countries, revealed that school-aged children’s height and weight, which are […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The UK minister responsible for visas and immigration has encouraged even more students from Pakistan to choose the UK as a place to study as the International Students Day was marked on November 17. Kevin Foster MP, Minister for Future Borders and Immigration, used the annual celebration of international students to make clear the […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Chengdu: World Panda Youth Reporters Camp was held in Chengdu. 20 outstanding youth from 6 countries, including 2 Pakistani youth, Zaid Ahmed and Aftab Ali took part in this event.They got opportunities to visit and interview Chengdu around 6 themes such as urban greening, urban industries, history, technology, sport, and entertainment. After this […]
Read MoreCovert Report Islamabad: The Government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 471 million Japanese Yen (JPY) to UN-Habitat for the project of “The Improvement of Disaster Resilient Schools Infrastructure” in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, aiming to provide a safe and stable educational environment to the students as well as the teachers.According to a […]
Read MoreCovert Report Islamabad: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has started holding tax educational awareness sessions in different educational institutes of Islamabad.Under the Letter of Understanding (LoU) signed between FBR and Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), said a statement issued by FBR. The part of bilateral LoU, the series of tax awareness educational session held in […]
Read MoreLeo Howard Tokyo: Come autumn, the Japanese will throw around phrases that point to seasonal hobbies such as supotsu no aki (autumn of sports), geijitsu no aki (autumn of art) and dokusho no aki (autumn of reading).The first two are reflected in the sports and culture festivals held at the nation’s schools, but the dokusho […]
Read MoreTaj Nabi Khan Islamabad: Over the years, the class-based education system and multi-layered curriculum has widened polarization and created more social and economic disparities among different strata of the society leading to lack of tolerance and acceptability towards each other — those belonging to or graduating from somewhat ‘different systems of education’.Nelson Mandela said, “Education […]
Read MorePeshawar: British High Commissioner Dr Christian Turner visited Peshawar last week to see how UK aid has been working closely with the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to transform lives.On his first visit, he met Ministers, parliamentarians, and development experts – discussing how the UK will continue a commitment which has already lasted more than […]
Read MoreAlexandra Witze The notice went out on 6 March, a Friday afternoon. All classes at the University of Washington in Seattle — the city then the US epicentre of the outbreak of COVID-19 — would shift online the following Monday. Instructors scrambled to set up remote learning options for more than 40,000 students. “It became […]
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