School type Private, preparatory Founder Nazi Qureshi Phone +92 42 35777173 Campuses 13 | Opened 1987 Status Open Founded 1987 | |
School board Nazi Qureshi
Zainab Qureshi Principals Ayesha Zaigham
Sara Ajmal
Rubina Sajjad
Naveela Abbas
Shehla Shahanwaz Address 26 College Rd, Lahore, Pakistan Motto To live in truth. (English language) | ||
Lahore College of Arts and Sciences (abbreviated as LACAS), founded in 1987, is a private fee-paying academic institution with most of its campuses located primarily in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. LACAS provides preschool, primary and secondary education and preparation for international General Certificate of Education (GCE) examinations.
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The institution has currently seven campuses in the city of Lahore; one each in Johar Town, Burki Road, Gulberg, Upper Mall, and Model Town, and two at Canal Side (a girls campus on Rasulpur Road; a boys campus at Raiwind Road). One campus was established in the city of Gujranwala and another in Faisalabad.
Johar Town campus
The LACAS Johar Town campus is situated in the Johar Town housing scheme of Lahore. It currently offers classes from Preschool to Grade 11 (including GCE O Levels). All classes are coeducational except for Middle Section have separate branches for boys and girls.
Burki Road campus
The LACAS Burki Road campus is situated in the Paragon Society on Burki Road of Lahore Cantonment, Lahore. It currently offers classes from Preschool to Grade XI (including GCE O Level).
Gulberg Alevels campus
On 14 April 2010, it was officially announced by the Managing Director of the institution at the Annual Excellence Awards Distribution Ceremony that a new purpose-built campus will open in Gulberg in August 2010. The new campus houses only the A Level section.
Curriculum
Courses offered at CIE and Edexcel International GCE, AS/A Level are:
A-Level section is organized into four groups. 'Group' in LACAS is a class of students who share a similar combination of courses that fit their career choices and appropriate for their academic lifestyle. During the freshmen orientation, all students are required to initially select four or five courses from one of the four groups.
Monitoring
'Formal assessments' and assignments/coursework are scheduled regularly and the grades are included in the end of term report. Examinations are held at the end of each academic term/semester. All these factors contribute to the scoring of a given course in an 'Academic Progress Report'. 'Parent Teacher Meetings' (PTM) are scheduled every term where the progress of each student is discussed in detail.