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Institutions holiday | BIEK cancelled results | SU, Mirpurkhas classes
Educational institutions to remain closed today
Karachi, April 04, 2008: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan has announced a public
holiday for all educational institutions throughout Sindh on Friday (today), on
the occasion of the 29th death anniversary of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. According to a handout issued from the Governor's
House on Thursday, all public and private educational institutions including
schools, colleges and universities in the province would remain closed on Friday
(today). The News
BIEK action against 24 candidates
Karachi: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has
cancelled the results of 15 candidates on the charges of impersonation in their
Intermediate supplementary examinations-2007.
The board has also punished
another nine candidates, who appeared in the same examinations, by canceling
their papers in which they were found guilty of using unfair means, such as
copying material or taking away the answer scripts.
Giving details of the
punishment, sources in the BIEK said that out of the total 15 cases in which
results were cancelled for impersonation, six candidates were caught at the
examination centre set up in the Shipowners' College and another five at the
centre set up in the Govt Degree College, Quaidabad. Two candidates each were
caught at the centres set up in the Govt Degree Boys College, Gulistan-i-Jauhar
and the S. M. Govt Science College, Shahrah-i-Iraq.
With regard to some
candidates having taken away the answer scripts, the sources said that five
candidates - two male and three female - were involved. Two such cases were
detected at the centre set up in the Govt College for Women, Block 16, Federal B
Area and one each at the centres set up in the Jinnah Govt College, the Govt
Superior Commerce College, the Govt Degree Science College, Malir and the Sir
Syed Govt Girls College, Nazimabad. Daily Times
Classes at Mirpurkhas campus of SU to begin by Sept
Mirpurkhas: Classes at Sindh University's Mirpurkhas Campus will
begin in September, said District Naib Nazim Zafar Ahmed
Kamali.
Presiding the meeting of University Campus Academic Committee on
Thursday he said the building for postgraduate classes will be completed with a
cost of Rs24.5 million in which classes of university campus will
start.
The meeting was informed that the Academic Block, compound wall,
Auditorium and Library Block of the building for postgraduate classes were
complete with finishing under way. The building will be handed over to
University Administration by June 30.
He said a meeting will soon be held
by varsity's administration to review requirements of campus.
Regional
Director Colleges Prof Ghulam Rasool Maher, Principal Government Shah Abdul
Latif College Mirpurkhas Prof Akbar Ali Khaskheli, Prof Dr Saeeduddin, Prof
Khursheed Ahmed, Prof Abdul Hameed Shaikh and District Officer Education Works,
Fazal Illahi Memon attended the meeting. Dawn
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