KABUL: The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) on Sunday announced the result of university entry tests, declaring some 157,000 participants as successful. MoHE spokesman Faisal Amin told Pajhwok Afghan News the results of the tests were published on the ministry’s website www.mohe.gov.af on Sunday afternoon. Of some 180,000 candidates from all over the country sitting in the exams of 1394 ...

BESANGON: A woman aged 91 has become one of the oldest women in France to gain a PhD after she completed a thesis that she had begun three decades earlier. Colette Bourlier was awarded the mark of “high distinction” for her work, which she successfully defended on Tuesday before a jury of the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, eastern France. ...

NEW YORK: The United States federal government changed rules for non-immigrant student visas on Friday, saying that international students will now be eligible to stay for three years after finishing their degrees for training potentially leading to employment. Only students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields from accredited higher education institutes and employed by employers participating ...

PESHAWAR: Hamid Shah, a student of grade 6 in a private school in Peshawar, has lately been distracted. He is present in the class but not focused on his studies. That worries his teacher because Shah is among the top students of the class. “Since the attacks on education institutions, we have noticed a visible change not only in his ...

HONG KONG (THE PASHTUN TIMES): Pashtun students, studying in various universities of Hong Kong, seek a platform to address multifaceted problems that Pashtun students encounter in the pursuit of higher education. Arif Ali Khan, a PhD Scholar at City University Hong Kong, said that Pashtun students, for the first time ever, organized a get together in Hong Kong with a ...

The family complained that the Pakistani media has ignored the success of the budding scientist Imran Khan QUETTA: As the story of one of the world’s most influential scientific discovery unfolds, it comes to the forefront that not one, but two Pakistanis were part of the various research teams which contributed to the discovery of gravitational waves. A young researcher ...

AFGHANISTAN: A patriot Afghan national who lives in a foreign country but still holds love for his country has spent $125,000 of his ‘hardly-earned’ money to build a library and conference hall for students of Medical Faculty in Nangarhar University. Professor Sharifullah while inaugurating the two-storey building, being constructed with his funds, urged students to concentrate on their studies. He ...

The BKTEF holds Principals’ Meeting of all Bacha Khan School “Violence cannot be fought with violence but non violence and Peace. Despite the poor conditions and vulnerable situation of Pukhtunkhwa which is constant victim of terrorism, our determination is unbreakable and our hopes are high. We shall continue struggling to realize the ideals of non violence, social justice and empowerment ...

PESHAWAR: The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, taking advantage of rules, has served notice on Islamia College University Peshawar to close down Pashto department immediately. In line with rules of business, the government of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa is all set to issue notification in this regard with in a couple of days to shut the department of Pashto language and litrature. ...

BANNU: The correspondent of ‘THE PASHTUN TIMES’ Musa Khan Nangialey has become Gold Medalist in MA International Relations. In September 2015, he appeared in the annual examinations of University of Science and Technology Bannu as a private candidate in discipline of International Relations and secured 798/1100 marks. It is the highest ever score in the history of UST Bannu in ...