Medical entrance test on July 20

The entrance test 2010-11 for admission to public and private medical and dental colleges in Punjab will be held on July 20, just two weeks or so after the conclusion of the FSc pre-medical examination. The minimum passing marks will be 60 per cent.

The University of Health Sciences will conduct the test simultaneously in 12 cities — Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Rawalpindi and Hasanabdaal – at 9am. The test will be free of cost as the chief minister has directed the admission board not to charge fee of Rs1,000.

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Scholarships Instituted for Graduate Engineering Studies

Developing Countries Partnership Programme for the Academic Year 2010-2011

NFB Computer Science Scholarship 2011

Each year at its national convention in July, the NFB gives a broad array of thirty scholarships to recognize achievement by blind scholars.

All applicants for these scholarships:

1. must be legally blind (PDF document) in both eyes, and
2. must be residing in the United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico, and
3. must be pursuing or planning to pursue a full-time, postsecondary course of study in a degree program at a United States institution in the current scholastic year, except that one scholarship may be given to a person employed full-time while attending school part-time, and
4. must participate in the entire NFB national convention and in all scheduled scholarship program activities.     More >