Education

Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal named November 25 as the launch date for Pakistan's first astronaut mission to China's Tiangong space station, with two Pakistan Air Force pilots still competing for the single seat.

BBP Education Desk · October 18, 2026 · 3 min

Punjab's School Education Department has ordered government schools onto a winter timetable from October 16 through March 31, 2027, with single-shift classes starting 45 minutes later than the autumn schedule.

BBP Education Desk · October 14, 2026 · 3 min

Fifty-six Pakistani universities made this year's Times Higher Education World University Rankings, up from 48 the previous year, but none reached the global top 400. Quaid-i-Azam University placed highest, in the 551-600 band.

BBP Education Desk · October 12, 2026 · 3 min

Karachi University has replaced its Controller of Examinations amid a probe into claims that roughly 150 students from two affiliated law colleges, who had failed an LLB Part II paper, were awarded passing marks through an August scrutiny process the former vice chancellor says broke the university's own rules.

BBP Education Desk · October 9, 2026 · 4 min

Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti's cabinet approved a package on October 9 pairing a Non-Formal Education Act aimed at 1.6 million out-of-school children aged 10 to 16 with procurement amendments mandating e-tendering for contracts above Rs500,000.

BBP Education Desk · October 9, 2026 · 2 min

Chairing the first meeting of URAAN Pakistan's new Human Capital and Skills Mission on October 7, Ahsan Iqbal put fresh numbers on a decade-old crisis and called for a ten-year, devolved push on education, health, nutrition and population.

BBP Education Desk · October 8, 2026 · 3 min

A launch ceremony in Lahore brought together Punjab's School Education Department, PECTAA, PMIU-PESRP and UNICEF to kick off the AI Curriculum and Training Initiative, which aims to train 160,000 government school teachers through a four-tier cascade model and introduce AI as a subject from Class 1 to Class 12.

BBP Education Desk · October 1, 2026 · 4 min

The Higher Education Commission issued a public alert on September 27 telling students to verify that any foreign degree offered through a local Pakistani institution appears on HEC's approved Transnational Education partner list before enrolling or paying fees.

BBP Education Desk · September 27, 2026 · 4 min

The University of Health Sciences Lahore declared MDCAT 2026 results on September 24: 37,708 candidates qualified for MBBS out of 47,475 who sat the test, against roughly 3,376 public-sector MBBS seats in the province.

BBP Education Desk · September 25, 2026 · 3 min