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The importance of communication skills could not be undermined in any field of life but its role in the field of Engineering and information technology is crucial. It is very difficult for young engineering students to shape their thoughts in second language. The task becomes more difficult when the students have to write for specific purposes like TOR, technical reports, proposals, memos and letters. Needs Analysis is the first step towards developing curriculum. It could be used to bring improvements in existing syllabus/methodology. The research was conducted to analyse the target needs of the Bachelors of Engineering students in Pakistan and to identify the gap between present syllabi and the needs of the students. The research was conducted in five engineering institutions of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The data was collected though questionnaires and class observation. The findings of the study indicate the wants of the students regarding English courses. It also reveals that teaching/ learning situation in the classrooms of English courses for engineering students.

Keywords: Need analysis, English courses, Engineering

The purpose of the study was to compare the Emotional Intelligence among the University graduates on the basis of subjects opted and time spent at the university campus. Population of the study were the students enrolled in different faculties at University of Gujrat. Accessible population of the study was those understudies who were enlisted in Faculty of Natural Science and Social Science at University of Gujrat. Multistage sampling technique was used to select sample for the study. Sample size of the study was 305 (106 natural sciences and 199 social sciences graduates) students. The data was analyzed through SPSS software. This study revealed that there is a significant difference of Emotional Intelligence of students enrolled in 2^nd and 8^th semester as well as between Natural Science and Social science students. It was therefore recommended that the teachers as well as the curriculum developers must be trained to take care for the grooming of students’ emotional intelligence.

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-regulation, relationship management

The present paper is a research oriented attempt to find out the effects of Self-Efficacy on the Academic Performance of the students of University of the Punjab, Lahore. Self-Efficacy refers to the beliefs of students, who achieve our target and fulfill the task base on own abilities because they think that, they can do it (Bandura & Locke, 2003) whereas Academic performance mean outcome of educational targets and goals. A Quantitative research methodology was adopted for this study. Simple random sampling technique was used. Total sample size was 180. Interview schedule was used as the tool for data collection. The data were processed by using SPSS. This study found that 42.2% of the respondents were confident to have the ability to fulfill their goals and 54.4% were confident and motivated to understand basic concepts of their subjects because 46.1% believed on hardworking that will be helpful for them in trouble situation. For academic performance, 41.7% respondents were satisfied with their academic performance because their past results encourage them to work hard. The results of Spearman’s correlation indicated that there is significant relationship between the self-efficacy and academic performance of the students while studying at higher level learning. Moreover, Independent variable i.e. self-efficacy has effect on the dependent variable i.e. academic performance.

Keywords: Self-Efficacy, Academic Performance, Self-Adequacy, Students’ Motivation.

Classrooms are the most diverse and complex social structure for teachinglearning process where teachers practice differentiated instructions, assess students with fairness and interact with just. Sans doubt, potency in teaching always lies with teachers’ equity based interaction, assessment and pedagogy. Quality of student-teacher interaction is vital and fundamental to understand students’ engagement in classroom, fulfillment of students differentiated learning needs and their assessment that does justice with them. Teachers are considered as a catalytic agent who can play a pivotal role in students’ classroom to narrow the achievement gaps among students by bringing equity in classrooms. The purpose of the study undertaken was to examine teachers’ differentiated instructions, student-teacher fair interaction and fair assessment during teaching-learning process in classrooms. The study was quantitative and descriptive in nature and data were collected through self-developed questionnaire administered on primary school teachers. By using convenience sampling, 300 teachers were selected as sample from four tehsils of district Sargodha. The study found that albeit, teachers in primary schools are using differentiated instructions but not to the degree of satisfaction. They need more knowledge and orientation to understand the need and importance for using differentiated instructions in their classrooms. Also the study found that teachers are less fair in their assessment of students as well as do less justice with students while interacting with them in classrooms and schools.
 Keywords: Fair interaction, differentiated instruction, fair assessment  

Teachers play a significant role in the construction of global identity of students by providing them knowledge of the world and by cultivating positive attitude towards the global world. However, many aspects of curriculum reform related to global identity theme may be viewed and treated as a source of resistance by teachers working in a conservative context. The purpose of this study was to explore teachers’ beliefs and perceptions regarding global identity theme of Pakistan Studies curriculum policy and textbooks in order to develop and understanding of the ground level realities of curriculum changes in in the secondary schools in Punjab. For this, semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-seven Pakistan Studies teachers recruited from public and private schools in one district of Punjab province in Pakistan. Analysis of data revealed that in many ways curriculum policy by these Pakistan Studies teachers’ beliefs and perceptions show compliance as well as resistance to various aspects of curriculum reform related to global identity curriculum policy.

Keywords: Textbook, curricular gatekeeping, global perspectives, national identity, cultural diversity

According to Tornikoski (2011) compensation is an approach for providing monetary benefit to an employee in exchange of his work. Compensation is an important motive to attract and retain good employees for the attainment of managerial goals. This study attempts to investigate the types of compensation practices and its relationship with teachers’ motivation of public and private secondary schools. Through simple random sampling technique a representative sample of 312 male and female secondary school teachers was drawn from the population. The results of the study show that variations in compensation practices exist in public and private secondary schools. Various compensation practices affect teachers’ motivation differently. The study reveals that most of the compensation practices have significant positive relationship with teachers’ motivation whereas few of them signal fair degree of relationship. We conclude that compensation practices are effective stimulus for teachers at secondary school level.

Keywords: Compensation practices, motivation, secondary school teachers