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  Beaconhouse, Pakistan’s largest network of private educational institutions organized a quiz competition titled ‘Ubhartay Sitaray’ at the Walton Campus. The quiz was based on the general knowledge curriculum for Classes I and II in accordance with the 'National Curriculum of Pakistan’. It is the first time that Beaconhouse has added an additional school subject in Urdu, which addresses key concepts from General Science, Social Sciences and Ethics. This competition was designed to provide students with an opportunity to showcase their newly-learned skills and celebrate their Urdu language competency. Chief Guest, Prof. Dr. Taimur Rehman from LUMS along with Principal Beaconhouse Walton Campus Miss. Tehmina Lodhi, students, parents and teachers attended the competition. Four teams from Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan and Islamabad reached the final round. Lahore Model Town G17 campus team won the competition. The quiz competition was based on an innovative interdisciplinary approa...

ACCA’s Public Sector Conference looks at the challenges facing thepublic sector and suggests ways forward to transform the sector The public sector needs to respond to multiple global challenges to create a safe, sustainable, and prosperous future that works for all.  ACCA’s virtual public sector conference explored the challenges and the solutions that face public sector financial professionals as they work towards transforming the public sector. Such a task would be a challenge at any time but it is made significantly harder by a combination of war, high rates of inflation and a pressing climate challenge.  Accountancy is at the centre of public sector transformation. Finance professionals need the rightskills to improve financial management and drive policy and spending decisions. New thinking in the public sector has never been more important and the conference heard about ACCA’s recently published guides on professionalising the public sector, launched with IFAC on ...

In the current era of technology, TCL is one of the leading television manufacturers in the world. They have been awarded more than 5,000 awards in more than 200 countries around the world for their excellence in product quality and design. TCL has catered to the entertainment niche for people of all ages, be it families in their TV lounges or gamers in their competitions. In addition to providing top-quality products, TCL XL Collection TV is designed for big-screen entertainment and offers an impressive 75 inches of screen real estate with four times more pixels than standard HD TVs! The latest series of televisions are engineered with 4K HDR 10+ and Dolby Vision IQ high dynamic range (HDR) technology to deliver exceptional picture performance with vivid color contrast and brightness levels that exceed those of traditional LCD TVs while supporting all HDR formats including Dolby Vision™ technology from Netflix® or VUDU® UHD content from Google Play™ Movies & TV and more! Thi...

Syngenta Pakistan Limited, a leading agriculture innovation and technology company – providing crop protection, biologicals, seeds, crop enhancement products and digital services to millions of Pakistani farmers, has pledged a donation of PKR 3 million to The Citizens Foundation (TCF) for the rehabilitation of TCF school in Badin district of Sindh province which was impacted by the recent floods. In 2022, Pakistan witnessed unprecedented heavy rains and super floods which have caused devastation across the country. The education sector was not an exception to this havoc whereby over 2 million children were left without education as floods destroyed 27000 schools. The longer the schools remain closed, the greater the risk of children dropping out of school and facing learning losses emerge. In Badin alone, over 250,000 people and approximately 48,800 families have been badly affected due to floods. Syngenta Pakistan, being a socially responsible organization, has stepped up to support t...

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ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) backs green budgeting for the public sector everywhere to implement climate commitments and achieve their environmental goals. In  Green budgeting: a toolkit for public sector finance professionals  published today, ACCA sets out the reasons for considering green budgeting and the methods that can be adopted. It highlights the crucial role that finance professionals must play in making action on climate change a reality. John Lelliott, OBE, FCCA, chair of ACCA’s Global Forum for Sustainability and former finance director at the UK Crown Estate, wrote a foreword to the toolkit. He says: ‘Action to address the climate crisis requires change across the entire public sector. Climate considerations must be central to public sector organisations’ decision-making processes. The budget cycle is at the heart of the way organisations implement their objectives.’ Green budgeting supports progress towards national and internati...