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Admission in the medical and dental collages of Peshawar
Over 10,000 sit medical college entry tests
Peshawar, Aug 25, 2008: More than 10,000 students desirous to get admission in the medical and
dental collages of the province taken the entry test in Peshawar, Abbotabad and
Bannu on Sunday, official said.
An official of Educational Testing and
Evaluation Agency (ETEA), which conducts the test for the medical colleges of
the province, said that around 7500 students appeared in the Peshawar, 2400 in
Abbotabad and 770 students in Bannu centres to take the test, which was
conducted to select candidates for 1072 seats in the medical colleges of the
province.
The tests were held in the Colonel Sher Khan Shaheed Stadium
Peshawar, Ayub Medical College Peshawar (AMC) Abbotabad and Akram Khan Durrani
Medical College Bannu simultaneously.
The officials said that five seats
have reserved for the Chitral, Lower Dir and Gadoon and 90 for FATA, seven for
northern areas, four for Afghan nationals and 147 were for self finance students
of 1072 seats.
Strict security arrangements were made for the entry test
and students started to arrive at the venue advance of time announced by
ETEA.
The ETEA had announced that the test would start at around 6:00am
and students arrived at the venue earlier of the schedule, however, it got
delayed for more than two hours and started at around 9:00am.
Most of the
students, who had reached the venue two hours advance had to wait for more than
four years in the heat as the ETEA could not ensure the time it had announced
for the test.
Most of the students taking the test said that
they were told to reach the venue in advance of scheduled time, but were made to
wait for hours in the hot weather.
Mohammad Aziz from Mardan said that he has reached the venue at around 3:00am and the time for the test
on their admission slips was 6:00am and it was to be strictly
followed.
He said that the test has yet to start and they are facing
lassitude due to longer than usual waiting for resumption of the
test.
Another student said that the students had to go through body
search, while entering the venue and it was contemptuous to search the students
like criminals. He said that it was beyond comprehension to set the time at
6:00am, which is too early as students from far flung areas of the province were
participating in the test. Daily Times
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HEC launches advanced research network
Islamabad: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has now launched the
advanced Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN) which has been connected
to other global Research & Education Networks (RENs), viz the Internet2 of
USA, Asia-Pacific Advanced Network of continents of Asia and Australia, and
GEANT2 network of National RENs of European countries.
This link is a result
of joint efforts of the HEC and the National Science Foundation of USA who
equally co-funded a dedicated link from PERN to Internet2.
The PERN now has a
total R&E link capacity of 155 Mbps and it is now leading in South Asia
being three times bigger than the linking capacity of India's Education &
Research Network (ERNet) which is connected to global R&E network over a 45
Mbps link.
Through this connectivity, academicians and researchers would be
directly connected to other peer RENs, resulting in lesser delays and low
latency with add on features of security and high performance for the
specialized and time sensitive activities, like simulations on distributed
resources, telemedicine and video conferencing, remote instrumentation, etc.
Moreover, universities/ institutes now have access to the large contents and
research resources available with the constituent academic and research
institutions in RENs in advanced countries.
These include free online
educational multimedia-on-demand, online library resources, access to
supercomputing and grid nodes, collaborative tools, digital heritage, test bed
for the future internet design, advanced network services' test bed for IPv6,
multicast implementation, layer 2 virtual private networks (VPNs) etc.
The
purpose of this network connection is to support Pakistan's science and
technology collaborations with technologically advanced countries.
The
network connections will greatly assist the scientific collaborations being
defined between the developed countries and Pakistan by allowing more direct,
high-speed access and communication among S&T investigators and worldwide
S&T resources.
Two of the many examples are the High-speed access to
the Bio-Mirror and other genomics based archive data hosted by Indiana
University which is critical for genome research will be facilitated by this
high-performance connection.
Similarly, this connection will allow more
rapid access to data originating from the NSF funded Network for Earthquake
Engineering Simulation (NEES) project to assist the efforts of the Earth
Sciences and Seismology WG.
The project of PERN was initiated in 2002 as an
Educational Intranet by Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman. Since then the Network has
evolved significantly and provides valuable services, like high speed internet,
audio/video conferencing, access to digital library resources like journals,
books and research thesis in digitalised format. The Nation
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2 faculty members of Bahria University honoured
Islamabad: The Bahria University administration and faculty members have
congratulated renowned educationist and TV artiste Durdana Butt, currently
working as director public relations & marketing in the academic
institution, for receiving 'Tamgha-e-Imtiaz' on August 14.
Durdana Butt
is also a three-time recipient of the National Award by Pakistan Television and
received a medal for her 25 years of outstanding services to the PTV. In the
famous drama 'Aangan Taira' written by Anwar Maqsood, she played the character
of 'Hamsheera', which was much appreciated by the viewers.
Jehanzeb
Ahmad, head of the Computer Science & Engineering Department, Bahria
University, was conferred upon the 'Best University Teacher Award' for the year
2007 by HEC Chairman Professor Dr Atta-ur-Rahman on August 13.
Jehanzeb
is an MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA, and Bachelors in
Electrical Engineering from UET, Lahore. He has won numerous recognition awards
for his design work at Intel. Before becoming the head of department at Bahria
University in 2001, Jehanzeb Ahmad worked as general manager at Nescom. He has
specialised in Microchip Designing and is an expert in VLSI, FPGAs, Encryption
and Embedded Systems. The News
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