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The School of Education (SE) at the Beaconhouse National University founded in 2005 was established in response to the deeply felt need in Pakistan and the region for improvement in quality of teacher education. It has become one of the leading institutions for teacher education in Pakistan. Realizing the potential of education for transforming lives, the School of Education is committed to making a positive contribution to the development of individuals, institutions and society.

The School caters to both in-service and pre-service professionals from both public and private sector institutions. Through the courses and programs, the School reaches a diverse population of trainees from different education sectors and levels.

All the programmes offered at the School of Education are research-intensive and are based on the philosophy that teacher educators must be engaged in a continual process of inquiry. They are designed keeping in view the challenges of change that individuals, institutions and societies are facing and aim at preparing its students as effective agents of change. The teaching and assessment techniques used by the School encourage experiential learning and problem-solving skills. The research-led courses offered at SE encourage students to gain insights from research in pedagogy to develop skills and values needed for imparting quality education. Keeping these strengths in view, the School of Education at Beconhouse National University envisions the following standards of excellence for the next decade so:

"To be a leading faculty of quality education in Pakistan by creating a rich academic and research environment that draws on sound theoretical knowledge, best practices and latest research techniques. The School of Education at Beaconhouse National University will contribute to enhance quality teacher education by providing advanced research, personal and professional development opportunities of the highest academic standards, to ensure that its graduates meet the demands of the 21st Century"

SE News & Events

New Program: BS (Hons.) in Education / TESL / Educational Management

The aim of the programme is to introduce participants to three areas of interests for teachers, managers of educational institutions and ELT specialists. These are Education, Educational Management and ELT (comprising TESL/EFL). Read More>>
 

DR. TARIQ RAHMAN, HEC Distinguished National Professor Emeritus & Dean, School of Education, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore,

PUBLICATIONS

18 Books, 21 contributions to reference books, 27 chapters in books, 96 articles and 17 book reviews in scholarly journals on literature language, history, politics and education. [See Appendix A for details].  Weekly newspaper columns, book reviews in newspapers, reports, occasional papers from organizations etc have been listed in complete CV (www.tariqrahman.net). Read More>>
 

An Employer A Day On-campus from 22nd April till May 03, 2013

The Directorate of Student Affairs & External Relations is organizing an on-campus "BNU Recruitment Drive - Spring 2013": An Employer A Day at BNU from 22nd April till May 03, 2013 at both campuses. Read More>>
 

SE: One-Day Conference on "Education, Language and Educational Management

The School of Education hosted a one-day conference on Thursday 2nd May 2013, on Education, Language and Educational Management in order to expose students and faculty to Pakistani scholars working in the field. Authors, students and researchers were invited to attend the conference being hosted at Lahore Grande, Zafar Ali Road Gulberg V, Lahore.. Read More>>
 

BNU Student Fundraising Week 2013 (March 01 till March 08, 2013)

Come and Lead us in Support of Equal Access to Higher Education in Pakistan!
The focus of this campaign is to mobilize BNU Students and Alumni to Expand Higher Education opportunities in Pakistan for students from low-income families aspiring to join BNU. Read More>>
 

BNU in “W4” Category

BNU has been placed in the highest ranked category “W4” by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. Excerpt of the letter received from the Higher Education Commission dated December 17, 2012: Read More>>
 

School of Education faculty's paper Publication

Ms. Fatima Dar's paper, 'Textbook materials and their successful application in the classroom: Implications for language learning', has been published in the Journal of Educational and Instructional Studies in the World. The issue is of November 2012, Vol.2 Issue 13 ISSN: 2146-7463. The paper can also be electronically accessed at:http://wjeis.org/FileUpload/ds217232/File/13.dar.pdf.
 

Fatima Dar read a paper on 'Textbook Materials and language development' in the WCEIS from Nov. 7-9, 2012 in Antalya, Turkey

Fatima Dar read a paper on 'Textbook Materials and language development' in the World Conference on Education and Instructional Studies (WCEIS) from Nov. 7-9, 2012 in Antalya, Turkey. The presentation discussed the importance of developmentally appropriate, Read More>>
 

School of Education faculty presents paper at the SPELT International Conference

Ms. Fatima Rehan Dar, Assistant Professor, School of Education BNU presented a paper at the SPELT International Conference held at the Army Public School and College for Girls, Lahore on October 20, 2012. The topic of her paper was ' Empathetic awareness through literature based texts.' Read More>>
 

Head of Linguistics Department presents paper at 10th Asia TEFL International Conference

Prof. Qaisera A. Sheikh, Head, Department of Linguistics presented a paper on the "Impact of Professional Development on the Instructional Practices of College Teachers" at the 10th Asia TEFL International Conference: Expanding Horizons of Language and Communication: ELT Issues, Challenges and Implications held at Delhi, India on 4-6 October, 2012. The conference participants included around 600 representatives from different Asian countries, European Union and from the US. Read More>>
 

STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICE at BNU

Student Affairs Office (SAO) at BNU has been established under the Directorate of Student Affairs and External Relations (DSAER). The first step we have taken in this regards is to organize all BNU current students with BNU email IDs for a smooth and uninterrupted communication between SAO and students. You may collect your BNU IDs and passwords information from SAO at your convenience. Read More>>
 

School of Education: Admission Test

The School of Education holding its admission test and interview on September 3, 2012 for the following programmes;
1. MA in Education/TESL/ELM
2. M.Phil in Education/TESL/ELM
3. M.Sc Linguistic
For details contact admission office on 042-3571 8260 to 3 ext. 862.

 


The First Pakistani, Dr. Tariq Rahman Receives the Humboldt Foundation Award For Research

The President of the Humboldt Foundation Professor Helmut Schwarz, on the occasion of the award giving ceremony held on 20 June 2012 in Berlin Germany mentioned Dr. Tariq Rahman as the first person from Pakistan to have received the research award. Though several Pakistanis have received the Humboldt fellowships which are applied for by the scholar and for which one sends a research proposal and then spends time in Read More>>
 

Department of Linguistics Offering 25% Discount

25 percent OFF! All those who pay the full fee of the semester at the time of admission will get a reduction of 25 percent.
 

Department of Linguistics is offering MSc Linguistics. Read More>>
 

Faculty's Latest Research Publications and Presentations

  • Dr. Tariq Rahman visits Istanbul, Turkey for an Educational Trip from 9 May 2012 to 13 May 2012
  • Ms. Fatima Dar's paper "Let Language Run its Natural Course" has been published in SPELT Quarterly, Vol 27-No.1, pp 13-16 March 2012.
  • Ms. Fatima Dar co-authored four complete units for the Punjab Textbook Board Grade 9th English textbook which is now being used in schools all over Punjab (See More)
  • Mrs. Rahat Rizwan's paper titled : “Role of Leadership at the Headteachers’ Level at Urban Primary Government Schools in Developed and Developing Countries: A Case of Schools in Coventry vs Lahore” was presented at the 2012 International Conference on Management and Education Innovation – ICMEI 2012 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (See More)
  • Ms. Fatima Dar, (Assistant Professor), Presented a paper on " Advocating pro-social behavior through language" at the 27th SPELT International Conference, Lahore (Oct.21-23, 2011).
  • Dr. Tariq Rahman's presented a paper titled "Cohesion and Confrontation: The Case of the Historiography of Urdu", on 18th October in the 15th Language Development Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16-19 October, 2011
 

ELM Research Initiatives Rewarded with Acceptance of Abstracts for International Conference

As an outcome of encouraging research initiatives on part of Department for Educational Leadership and Management (ELM) at the School of Education (SE), many students were successful in having their abstracts accepted in international journals and conferences. Read More>>
 

Director Cambridge Commonwealth Trust visits BNU

Mr. Mike O' Sullivan, Director of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust visited BNU City Campus on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 on the invitation of Ms. Mahvesh Jadoon, Assistant Professor at School of Education (SE). Read More>>
 

Professor and Dean Dr. Tariq Rahman

Dr. Tariq Rahman Ph.D HEC Distinguished National Professor is currently Dean, School of Education, Beaconhouse National University Lahore. Before joining Beaconhouse National University, he was Professor Emeritus at the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. From June 2007 till June 2011 he was also the Director of NIPS. He is a highly published scholar with over 93 articles in scholarly journals; 18 books; 6 encyclopedia articles; 30 contributions to books and several book reviews. His most famous book Language and Politics in Pakistan, published by Oxford (Pakistan) in 1996, remains in print and has been published by OrientBlackswan in India. His history of language-learning among the Muslims of South Asia, Language, Ideology and Power (OUP 2002), remains a landmark in the field and has also been published by the same Indian publisher in 2008.  One of his books, Denizens of Alien Worlds (OUP 2004), connects the medium of instruction with world view, poverty and politics in Pakistan. His latest book From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History is a social and political history of Urdu and has been published simultaneously by Oxford (Pakistan) and Orient (India) in 2011.

Dr. Rahman has been a guest professor in Denmark and Spain. He has been a Fulbright research scholar (1995-96) at U. T. Austin. He was also the first incumbent of the Pakistan Chair at U.C Berkeley (2004-05). He has been a research fellow at the Oxford centre of Islamic Studies and the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg. He has lectured or contributed conference papers in the U. K -  where he obtained his M. A and Ph. D - as well as the U. S. A, Germany, France, China, Korea, India and Nepal. He also contributes columns and book reviews to the English language press in Pakistan.

Work Done in 2012

Distinguished Lectures

  1. ‘Narratives of the Ownership of Urdu’, Lecture, University of Heidelberg, Institute of South Asian Studies, 18 July 2012.

Conference Papers

  1. ‘The Teaching of Urdu in the Punjab and U.P in British India’, One-Day Conference of  the   Punjab Research Group,  University of Coventry, 30 June 2012.
  2.  ‘Education and Language Policy in Pakistan’, One-day conference by CERI, Paris, 09 July 2012.

Encyclopedia Articles
1.   Faqir Mohammad Faqir’, Encyclopedia of Islam 3rd edition, (2012), pp. 111-113.
2.  ‘Faiz Ahmed Faiz’, Encyclopedia of Islam  3rd Edition, (2012), pp. 134-138.

Journal Articles

  1. ‘Pakistan’s Policies and Practices towards the Religious Minorities’, South Asian

      History and Culture [U.K] Vol.3: No. 2 (2012), 302-315.

  1. ‘Urdu in the Radio: Aspects of Identity in South Asia’, Politeja [Poland] 3: 17 (2011), 259-271.
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