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GCU to set up two new campuses
Lahore, Jan 30, 2008: The Government College University (GCU) is planning to
extend its network by setting up two campuses in Islamabad and Kala Shah
Kaku.
The government has allocated 371 acres in Kala Shah Kaku for the
campus and has allocated Rs 531 million for construction. The Higher Education
Commission has pledged to provide funds for establishing laboratories on this
campus.
GCU Media Relations director Iqbal Anjum said that
the school was working to set up two campuses in Islamabad and Kala Shah Kaku.
"The building of the main campus is situated in a place where it cannot be
expanded while, currently, 6,000 students across the country are attaining
education from the school. The demand for the school is ever increasing. GCU
Vice chancellor Prof Khalid Aftab wants to elevate the status of the school to
the world's top institutes," he said.
Anjum said the land allocated in
Kala Shah Kaku was in the area that was often hit by floods. "We are working to
construct the building is such a way that it is not affected by flooding," he
said. Apart from these two campuses, the school was also working to upgrade the
building of the main campus, he added.
He said the school was now
focusing to promote a research culture. "There are 60 foreigners in the faculty
who are teaching at various departments. We have invested Rs 20 million to
construct a multipurpose and multi-storey building, the Centre for Advanced
Studies in Physics, where a sophisticated nuclear accelerator has been installed
for research purposes. Students from other universities are also benefiting from
the facility," he said and added that the GCU was the first to adopt the Tenure
Track System, which was another step towards its goal.
GCU arranges presentation on cosmology
The Government College
University's (GCU's) Education Society on Tuesday arranged a documentary
presentation on cosmology titled 'Galactica' in Bokhari Auditorium of the
university.
According to a press release issued, it was a 40-minute
documentary with detailed information regarding the universe, its movement,
position and reverse calculation. The documentary depicted various paradigms
related to the sun, the moon and the earth's structural modules. A large number
of science students of the university watched the documentary. Its objective was
to tell the students about various paradigms of the universe with special
reference to the earth and the sun. GCU Chemistry Department chairperson Prof Dr
MA Kashmiri was the chief guest of the event. He lauded the GCU's Education
Society for presenting the documentary. Daily Times
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| Education News | | Updated: 24 May, 2012 |
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