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Karachi University admissions schedule, Students Week, scholarships
KU to hold 'Students Week' with changes
Karachi, Aug 05, 2008: Karachi University has decided to observe students' week, engaging
youths in extracurricular healthy activities, at its campus from August 15 to
20, 2008 with some initial but important administrative changes to prevent the
occasion from any untoward situation.
All events will be held on departmental
bases. It if worthy of note that chairpersons of departments will be responsible
for any untoward situation if it occurs some troublesome against peaceful
atmosphere or Students' political wings may face trouble in context of
organizing their programmes as per the current KU rules and regulations for
students' week, as the students' wing used to commit participating in
extracurricular activities, following their political agenda, The Nation has
learned.
This year, students' week will be held under the management of the
KU departments, while last year such activities were organized on centralized
basis under the management of the KU Students' Adviser Office, KU Campus Officer
Dr Khalid Iraqi said expressing his views on Monday to The Nation.
Now the
students will not be allowed to take permission with the endorsement of their
department's chairperson from the KU Students' Adviser Office. The permission
for any programme will only be issued to chairperson of the department. In this
regard, each department will be funded Rs 2500 by the KU administration. Some
healthy activities, including Qirat and Naat competition, English and Urdu
debate competition, seminars, workshop, conference, poetry competition, quiz
programms, picture and photography competition, cooking competition and etc are
scheduled to be held as per the code of conduct of the KU.
Admission for law
Karachi University has announced that admissions to LLB
Part-I and LLM (Previous) classes for the session 2008 and 2009 in the KU
affiliated Law Colleges will start from August 4 to September 5 2008.
As per
KU notification issued on Monday, admissions in the respective colleges will be
allowed subject to eligibility for admission to the said class and availability
of seats as per allocation by the university. The students who have passed
examination from any institution other than KU equivalent to the pre-requisite,
will have to submit the equivalence certificate from the Varsity at the time of
admission. The university will not be responsible for any ineligible admission
given by the college.
Notification issued
Karachi University has notified
to all candidates of B Com (Part-I, II and) External Annual Examinations 2007-9
held I 2008), that their marks sheets have already been dispatched with their
provided residential addresses.
According to notification issued on Monday, Such candidates who have not yet
received their marks sheets are directed to contact to the external unit of
examination department at Silver Jubilee Gate, Room No 1 from 4 to 7 August 2008
during office hours for issuance of the duplicate marks sheets. Photocopy of
admit card and registration card will be required for the issuance of the
duplicate marks sheets. The Nation
KU offers scholarships
The University of Karachi has invited applications for
merit-cum-need scholarships 2008.
A spokesman for the institution said on
Monday that the scholarships were being offered to the students of BS Honours/
Masters/ Pharmacy who fulfilled the prescribed criteria.
The applicants
should have cleared all courses and first semester of 2008 with overall 60 per
cent marks. The form should be submitted to the chairpersons of the departments
by Aug 30.
Meanwhile, the university has extended the date for the
submission of enrolment forms and fee for BA, BSc and BCom academic session
2007-08. The candidates may submit their enrolment forms with a late fee of
Rs650 till Aug 25, 2008. Dawn
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