Punjab university BBA (Hons) examination 2009

Punjab university announced BBA Hons examination schedule
Lahore, Dec 03: The Punjab University (PU) has issued a notification for commencement of the Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Annual Examination, 2009.

The BBA (Hons) First Year and Fourth Year Annual Examination, 2009, will commence from December 18, BBA (Hons) Second Year Annual Examination from December 19 and BBA (Hons) Third Year Annual Examination from December 21. Detailed schedule is also available at the PU website www.pu.edu.pk. The news

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PU, IJT activists tussle
Lahore: The tussle between PU administration and IJT activists on the issues of students' expulsion and forcible attempt to establish union offices in PU hostels and some departments has reached at the boiling point.

Non-cooperative attitude of police and fear of taking offensive action by the IJT activists at the PU hotels and new campus departments to establish their hegemony have panicked the varsity administration and students who are expecting high turmoil at the campus in the coming days.

Fearing this, the varsity administration Wednesday sought police protection at hostel No 1 and philosophy department where the armed activists want to establish their offices despite ban on union activities.

The university is planning to expel more students out of 60 students, mostly IJT activists, who broke the wall of PU campus at gunpoint the other day, sources revealed. The varsity's disciplinary committee is working to deal with the matter of further expulsions.

Official sources said the IJT activists had occupied rooms in hostels without any fear and the PU administration was helpless in maintaining its writ mainly due to non-cooperation of the police. PU Students Advisor Iftikhar Malik said that strict action would be taken against the IJT activists who staged an armed attack at the four rooms of the said hostel for making their offices.

In the meanwhile, the Academic Staff Association has vowed to stage a protest demonstration, which will be led by the PU vice chancellor to the Governor's House, against the high-headedness of IJT and filthy language being used by them against the university administration. The nation

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PU Research work
Lahore: An Urdu book by Assistant Professor Dr Ghazala Nasseem of the Institute of Mycology & Plant Pathology of Punjab University (PU) has been published.

The book is titled "Kuch Aham Mahooliyati Aur Arziyati Masail: Aik Sainsi Nuqta-e-Nazar" (Some important environmental issues: A Scientific vision). It carries the research of the assistant professor.

A press release said the book has been published by the provincial Environmental Protection Department in which Dr Ghazala Nasseem has highlighted 15 research topics. The book helps understand natural phenomena.

PU Faculty of Sciences Dean Prof Dr Jamil Anwar Chaudhry has written the preface of the book and said this was an excellent research work. He said it always had been a difficult task for everyone to write on scientific research work in Urdu, adding but Dr Ghazala Nasseem did it in good way and she succeeded to convey her message to common people.

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3.4m Punjab students to benefit from IT labs
Lahore: Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said that education will have to be promoted to eliminate ignorance from the country, putting it on the road to progress.

He said the Punjab government was taking steps for the improvement in the education sector and establishment of IT labs in 4,286 schools, the Punjab Educational Endowment Fund and recruitment of 40,000 educators would leave far-reaching effects on the sector.

He was talking to Punjab Minister Ashraf Sohna, MNA Sheikh Aftab Ahmed, Senator Zafar Ali Shah and Zakia Shahnawaz who called on him separately here on Wednesday.

Mr Shahbaz said the dream of putting the country on the road to progress could not be materialised without education and that's why the Punjab government was taking unprecedented measures for its promotion. He said the project of setting up of computer labs in schools had been completed to equip the new generations with modern knowledge and 3.4 million students would benefit from the labs each year. He said the Punjab IT Labs project would be a milestone for providing education of international standard to the students.

The chief minister said full attention was being paid to the promotion of technical education and not only the Technical Education Vocational Training Authority had been made an autonomous institution but technical educational institutions were also being equipped with modern machinery and other equipments according to their demands. He said to make the manpower more skilful keeping in view the needs of the market and new courses were being introduced with the consultation of the chambers of commerce and industry and experts of agriculture, information technology, textile, livestock and other sectors.

The CM said in the future, talented students would not have to discontinue their education due to financial constraints as the Punjab Educational Endowment Fund had been set up for deserving students and the process of issuing scholarships to the students out of the fund had been started.

He said the project Danish Schools had been started for providing the latest educational facilities to students of the backward areas of the province on the pattern of modern schools of developed areas and the project had been started from southern Punjab. He said that besides free education, boarding facilities would also be available to the students in such schools.

According to the instructions of Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, inaugural ceremonies of newly-constructed 4,286 computer laboratories in government schools will be held at all district headquarters of the province at 11.30am on Thursday (today). Provincial ministers, advisors and special assistants to the chief minister and members parliament will be the chief guests in the ceremonies.

The provincial level ceremony in this regard will be held at the Government Model Girls High School, Model Town, at 4.30 pm where Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif will be the chief guest. The news

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International Day of Disabled Persons
Lahore: Experts and educationists reaffirmed their commitment to incorporate mentally and physically disabled persons into mainstream society at ceremonies held to mark International Day of Disabled Persons (Thursday, December 3) on Wednesday.

The Punjab Special Education Department and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the city organised functions to commemorate the occasion. According to Punjab Special Education Department Programme Officer Zahid Majeed, there are 18,342 registered disabled persons in Punjab.

He said they were categorised as 'deaf', 'blind', 'mentally challenged', 'physically disabled' and 'slow learner'. He said the percentage of disabled men was higher. He said 112 institutions across Punjab were working to promote special education and improve the status of disabled students.

He said the department would organise a special programme for disabled students. Humiar Bano, Head of the Punjab University Special Education department, said she called such children "challenging children" because it was unfair to call them 'special children'.

She said technology and expert knowledge must be used to develop the status and personalities of disabled children. staff report. Daily times

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