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4-year BA/BS honours in colleges discussed by HEC
Lahore, Feb 29, 2008: Education secretaries of all provinces and Azad Jammu and Kashmir
will meet today (Friday) to deliberate on the introduction of four-year BA/BS
(honours) degree programme in colleges.
The Higher Education Commission
(HEC) has convened the meeting of the steering committee of provincial education
secretaries at its regional office in the city.
The meeting was earlier
scheduled to be held on February 9 but was rescheduled because of general
elections.
It is learnt that the meeting would also discuss action
against colleges working without affiliation and registration and substandard
private universities and higher education institutions across the country
failing to meet Higher Education Commission criteria. An HEC official said that the commission had urged all provinces to follow the example of public
sector universities and introduce the four-year degree programme in colleges.
He said the move was aimed at making Pakistani degrees equivalent to the
degrees awarded by universities in developed countries and also to increase the
duration of study by refurbishing the curriculum/ course contents and scheme of
studies etc. The official said the steering committee would also submit
suggestions to streamline affairs of higher education in the country and to end
the prevailing disparity between college and university education. He said the
committee would also discuss action against substandard private substandard
universities and higher education institutions as Higher Education Commission's
deadline of June 30th was approaching. An official of the Punjab Education
Department seeking anonymity said the department had initially planned to
introduce the four-year degree programme in 26 selected colleges of the province
from 2008. He said implementation of the plan was delayed due to a lack of
requisite infrastructure, capacity building and ambiguity in the mode of
examination. He said universities were reluctant to help these colleges in
developing the required modus operandi for smooth functioning of the four-year
degree programme.
He said a departmental meeting held at the end of last
year observed that inadequate and ill-equipped libraries, lack of trained
teachers and poor condition of laboratories were the hurdles in introduction of
the programme. He said colleges must be provided necessary facilities before
introduction of the programme.
Dr Sohail H Naqvi,
the executive director of the HEC, said that the meeting would discuss
requirements for introduction of four-year bachelor degree programme in colleges
across the country. He said there was a need to replace the traditional two-year
degree programme as it was not equivalent to the degrees awarded in developed
countries. He said it was difficult to replace the present degree programme with
four-year degree programme in a single move across the country and efforts were
on to introduce it in phases. The News
Bio-medical engineering institute to be set up at UET Peshawar
Peshawar: The NWFP University of Engineering and Technology (UET)
Peshawar and the Khyber Medical University (KMU) decided on Thursday to set up
an institute of bio-medical engineering at the UET Peshawar, where experts from
both the institutions would work jointly.
The decision was made at a
meeting after a seminar on 'Recent Developments in Biomedical Engineering'. The
seminar was held to highlight the importance of cooperation between medical and
engineering researchers. UET Peshawar Vice Chancellor (VC) Syed Imtiaz Gailani
chaired the seminar, while KMU VC Professor Dr Daud was the chief guest. The
seminar was organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, while
Professor Dr Rizwan Gul and Engineer Usman Khan gave presentations on the
occasion. Dr Gul informed the participants about the use of plastic material in
knee and hip, while Engineer Usman Khan shed light on the importance of rapid
prototyping.
The chief guest, Dr Daud, stressed the importance of
enhanced cooperation between medical and engineering fields. He said that the
developments in the field of medicine were made possible due to engineering. In
the modern technologically advanced world collaboration between the two fields
could not be ignored, he said. He stressed the need for cooperation in teaching,
training and maintenance of the equipment.
Speaking on the occasion, the
UET Peshawar VC said the importance of engineering sciences could hardly be
overemphasised. "God gives life and engineers make life," he said, adding that
faculties of both the institutions should utilise their resources for joint
research to improve bio-medical engineering.
He said that rapid
prototype machine in engineering university could produce various body parts,
which could be used in medical research. Daily Times
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| Education News | | Updated: 24 May, 2012 |
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