Kip (unit)

A kip is an Imperial unit of force. It equals 1000 pounds-force, used primarily by American architects and engineers to measure engineering loads. Although uncommon, it is occasionally also considered a unit of weight, equal to 1000 pounds, i.e., one half of a short ton. One use is as a unit of deadweight to compute shipping charges.

The name comes from combining the words "kilo" and "pound"; it is occasionally called a kilopound. Its symbol is kip, or less frequently, klb. When it is necessary to clearly distinguish it as a unit of force rather than mass, it is sometimes called the kip-force (symbol kipf or klbf). Note that the symbol kp usually stands for a different unit of force, the kilopound or kilogram-force used primarily in Europe prior to the introduction of SI units.

The kip is also the name of obsolete units of measure in Malaysia.

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Knowledge Inn Preparatory School

Knowledge Inn Preparatory School (colloquially known as KIPS) is a private educational school, college and academy, founded in 1995, in Pakistan, with central campus in Johar Town, Lahore. The institution provides education to boys and girls until MCAT and ECAT. KIPS has satellite branches in Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Peshawar, Sargodha, Sahiwal, Gujrat,kharian Multan, Okara, Sialkot, Kasur, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan.

Inadequate Facilities

KIPS School and KIPS College does not have any appreciable laboratories. There is one library with 30 books. Students often complain about the poor facilities provided at the school.

Educational and Co-curricular structure

Students are discouraged to take part in any Co-curricular activities because the philosophy of school is to encourage students to study for "14" hours per day. KIPS and its rival private high schools are notorious for focusing on rot-learning and cramming and poor education style. Eminent Pakistani physicist and academic Pervez Hoodbhoy has always vociferously criticized this kind of education provided in Pakistan.