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Best University Teachers Awards: HEC honours 3 IBA teachers
Karachi, Jan 26, 2008: Mehreen Nazar, Aman U. Saiyed
and Yaseen Ahmed Meenai are three Institute of Business Administration (IBA),
Karachi faculty members, who have been selected by the Higher Education
Commission for the 'Best University Teachers Awards' for the years 2004, 2005
and 2006. A total of 103 teachers will be honoured at a ceremony in Islamabad
today.
These awards are in recognition of their contribution to the
field of higher education and to honor their achievements. The ceremony will be
held today, Jan 26, at 11:00 a.m. at the HEC Auditorium, Islamabad with Prof.
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman.
The winners have been selected for the awards, based
on the evaluation of the students and staff of the IBA. Aman U. Saiyed (for the
year 2004) has been a Lecturer at the Department of Accounting and Law at the
IBA since July 2003. He has an M.B.A. from Georgia State University, Atlanta
(1978). His areas of special interest are Investments, Financial Management,
Valuations, Mergers and Acquisitions and Risk Analysis. He has just finished
writing a book on Financial Accounting with text and Pakistani
cases.
Mehreen Nazar (for the year 2005) has been a Lecturer with the
Accounting and Law Department since May 2002. She has an LL.M degree in
International Law from Temple University, Philadelphia. Nazar also has six years
professional experience in Civil Litigations as an advocate. She is a member of
Pakistan Women Lawyers Association (PAWLA). Her areas of special interest are
Service and Labor Laws.
Yaseen Ahmed Meenai (for the year 2006) has been
a Lecturer with the CCS (Centre for Computer Studies) for the last two years. He
has an MSc. degree in Statistics from the University of Karachi (1999) and
served for six years at the Department of Statistics, KU, before joining the
IBA. As a Ph.D. student, he has read papers at three international conferences.
His areas of expertise include Mathematics and Statistics.
In addition to
these three faculty members, two other IBA teachers who received the Best
University Teachers Awards earlier are Dr Mahnaz Fatima (2001) and Dr Qazi
Masood Ahmed (2002).
The HEC established the awards for one faculty
member of each of the 50 public universities in the country. The award consists
of a certificate and Rs 100,000. Daily Times
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