Dr Qaiser appointed Karachi University VC
Dr Qaiser appointed KU VC
Karachi, Feb 10: Prof Dr Mohammad Qaiser, serving as the vice chancellor of the Federal Urdu University
for Arts, Science and Technology, has been appointed vice chancellor of
Karachi University, said a statement issued by the Governor's House on
Thursday. The statement added that the name of Dr Qaiser
was recommended by the search committee tasked with suggesting names for
the post. There were speculations about Dr Qaiser's appointment
since he was invited for a meeting with Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad
Khan, the chancellor of the public sector universities in the province, a
few weeks ago. The appointment issue had attracted a lot of media
attention and was extensively debated as university teachers across
Sindh expressed serious reservations over the discretionary powers of
the chancellor to choose any person as the head of a university. One of their major grievances relates to the continued extensions the chancellor has been giving to retired professors. Although
the Karachi University Teachers Society, the representative body of KU
teachers, declined to share their views on Dr Qaiser's appointment
saying that the matter would be discussed on Friday at a Kuts executive
body meeting, the appointment had been taken positively on the campus,
sources said. This is because of Prof Qaiser's "high academic
credentials and positive reputation", the sources added. Dr Qaiser will
replace Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui who has completed two
tenures on the campus. Dr Qaiser is a member of the Pakistan
Academy of Sciences and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Botany . One
of his major academic contributions is a research project titled The
Flora of Pakistan, which records scientific details of all the
indigenous flowering plant species of the country. Dawn
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BIEK terminates PTC, CT programme
Karachi: Following the decision of the Sindh Education and Literacy
Department, the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has
announced on Thursday that the Primary Teacher Certificate (PTC) and
Certificate of Teaching (CT) courses would be terminated by the end of
session 2011. It is pertinent to mention here that the Sindh government
had already issued a notification on April 22, 2011 in this context. The
board further announced that it would not conduct examinations of PTC
and CT courses for session 2011-12 and onwards, however, the candidates
who could not pass their PTC and CT examinations up to session 2011 can
avail their remaining chances only for failed papers. Daily times
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Academic activities suspended in Sindh varsities
Hyderabad: On the call of
Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association,
Sindh chapter, all the public universities of interior Sindh including
Mehran, Agriculture, Quaid-i-Awam, Shah Abdul Latif and Sindh
universities remained closed on Thursday to express solidarity with the
Sindh University Teachers Association (SUTA). The protest has been launched for removal of the university vice chancellor and for the acceptance of their other demands. Sindh
University teachers and employees staged a rally at the campus and a
protest sit-in outside the Sindhology department for three hours. They
raised full-throated slogans against the VC and the Sindh education
minister. Police and Rangers had set-up check posts and pickets at
all the exit and entry points of the Sindh University. Efforts of the
university administration to run classes remained futile as the teachers
boycotted all academic activities. Speaking on the occasion, SUTA
leaders Dr Azhar Ali Shah, Dr Arfana Mallah, Rabia Memon, Asghar
Burfat, Amar Sindhu, Badar Soomro and employees leaders Ghulam Nabi
Bhalai and Allah Wadhayo Sehto lashed out at the Sindh education
minister Pir Mazharul Haq for supporting 'inefficient' vice chancellor. They
said that the future of thousands of students, teachers and employees
was at stake due to the mismanagement of the VC and regretted education
minister's support to him. A single individual was being given priority
over thousands of stakeholders, they said. They appealed to the
president and the prime minister of to remove the VC and Sindh education
minister. The employees leaders said that the VC had done no favour to
the employees by regularising the services of some contract employees. Barrister
Zamir Ghumro visited the teachers camp and expressed his support to the
agitating teachers. Speaking on the occasion, he said, it was a very
simple issue and the government should immediately remove the retired VC in whose tenure a university professor was killed.
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Protesting teachers invited for talks
Hyderabad: The vice-chancellor of the university has
invited the agitating teachers for a dialogue and also appealed to them
to resume classes with the assurance that their demands would be
accepted. Vice-Chancellor of the Sindh University, Dr
Nazir Mughal lauded the earnest desire of the silent majority of
teachers to run smoothly the academic activities but couldn't against
the group of teachers who were forcibly suspending classes. Dr
Mughal said everyone has the right to protest but not to suspend
classes, while the present behaviour of teachers is unheard of in the
history of education. In addition to the plea of parents and
guardians, around 100 female students also appealed to agitating
teachers to end their boycott but to no benefit. He advised the
employees not take part in illegal sit-ins. Dr Mughal said this
while distributing job regularisation orders among 252 contractual
employees of the varsity on Thursday. He also announced promotion of 11
employees under technical scheme and upgraded 10 from BPS 14 to 16. Pro-vice chancellor, deans, heads of various teaching institutes and departments, registrar and employees attended the ceremony. He
approved the third phase of housing scheme and announced allocation of
Rs30 million for the land. He promised a house for every employee.
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SALU Khairpur teachers' protest
Khairpur: Teachers of the Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur boycotted all the academic
activities. They condemned issuance of show-cause notices to SUTA
members. President, Shah Abdul Latif University Teachers
Association, Professor Dr Abdul Majeed Chandio and Professor Imdad
Chandio told reporters that teachers also boycotted viva of college-side
degree examination. General Secretary of the association,
Professor Dr Ghulam Mohiuddin Veesar said that the boycott would
continue up to February 13 as per the decision of FAPUASA, Sindh
chapter. Dawn
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