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Sindh University to send teachers to UK for PhD
HYDERABAD, Feb 20(Dawn): The University of Sindh will sign a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with the University of Leicester of the United Kingdom in
near future to send faculty members to UK for PhD studies in natural sciences
and social sciences under faculty development programme.
A meeting held
on Monday between Sindh University Vice-Chancellor Dr Mazharul Haq Siddiqui,
senior member of faculties and Dr Michael Green, senior international officer of
the University of Leicester discussed terms and conditions for finalising the
MoU's draft to be signed in near future.
Mr Green informed the meeting
that his university, established 1921, had 10,000 full-time and 10,000 part-time
students in graduate, undergraduate and postgraduate level. The university was a
top-ranking university among 110 universities in UK, he added.
Mr
Siddiqui shed light on the academic and educational programmes in which the
university was preparing to extend scholarship to faculty members for PhD
studies. The university had 16,000 students registered at the campus and 60,000
students enrolled in affiliated colleges, he said.
Faculty of Social
Sciences Dean Dr Rafia Ahmed Shaikh, Planning and Development Adviser Mohammad
Hussain Shaikh, Prof Agha Rafiq and faculty members of Mass Communication
Department also attended the meeting.
POSTPONED:The registrar of
the University of Sindh announced on Monday that prize distribution ceremony
scheduled to be held at the Governor's House on Feb 22 had been postponed and
the new date would be announced later.
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