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HEC PhD scholarships: funds to QAU
HEC announces 1,500 PhD scholarships
Lahore, 28 March, 2008: Higher Education Commission (HEC) Executive Director Dr
Sohail H Naqvi on Thursday said that the HEC had announced 1,500 PhD
scholarships, and that the proposal had been sent to authorities concerned for
approval.
He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the National
Conference on the State of Social Sciences in Pakistan, organised by the
Government College University (GCU), in collaboration with the HEC at the
Bokhari Auditorium.
Dr Naqvi said that maximum funds were being mobilised
to provide maximum foreign scholarships to improve the quality of education by
providing better faculty at institutions.
He said that the HEC was
moulding curriculum in lines with the national and global markets, and that
merit-based scholarships were being replaced by need-based scholarships. "A
number of scholarships for post doctorate programme are available, but the HEC
cannot find suitable candidates for them," he said, and added that 316 students
had already been sent abroad for post doctorate degrees.
GCU Vice
Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Aftab, on the occasion, said that the primary role of
any university was to act as an agent of social change and ensure cultural
enlightenment.
Former State Bank of Pakistan governor Dr Ishrat Hussain
talked about public policy challenges, lack of governance, distributional
inequalities, identity crises, food, water and energy crises, and the
responsibility of social scientists. He said that the students of engineering,
medical, agricultural, physical and biological sciences and business
administration should also be mandated to take social sciences
courses.
Philosophy Department Chairperson Mirza Athar Baig spoke on "the
possibility of indigenous theorisation in social sciences: a transition from
trans-disciplinary to post-disciplinary paradigm", whereas Shahid Javed Burki
from the United States presented his paper on "the significance of the
development of social sciences for effective public policy". Daily Times
HEC chief promises more funds to QAU
Islamabad: Higher Education Commission Chairman Dr Attaur
Rehman has said that a reasonable amount would be granted to Quaid-i-Azam
University (QAU) for research projects in near future.
"It will help
transforming the university into an institution of international level," he said
while addressing the inaugural session of a two-day workshop on "Nano sciences
and catalysis" at the university.
The HEC chairman lauded the efforts of
National Centre for Physics (NCP) in the field of research and said, "we are
proud of Quaid-i-Azam University as it has a distinctive feature of competent
faculty, hard working professors and very conducive research
environment."
He said HEC has created a conducive environment for
scientists and researches to come to their homeland and impart their knowledge
among the potential scientists.
Dr Rehman said HEC was facilitating the
students as it has introduced many facilities like E-books programme and video
lectures facility.
Dr Hafeez Hoorani, Director Research, said NCP was set
up to facilitate the researchers in field of Physics and centre is well equipped
with up to date facilities and well trained human resources.
He said NCP
was collaborating with international universities and industries to develop
useful materials for industrial applications.
Institute of Nano Science
and Catalysis has developed five patents in the fields of medicines, energy,
environment and food processing and got them registered with US Patent and
Trademark Office.
Meanwhile addressing a workshop on "Bio-ethics
education: necessity not luxury" organised by OIC Standing Committee for
Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH), in collaboration with HEC,
Dr Rehman said that the allocation for higher education had been increased to
Rs18 billion from Rs800 million five years ago. Eighty per cent of this money is
being spent for human resource development; training of scientist, researchers
and educators which is the main focus of HR development efforts," he said adding
that the results of this investment in education and science and technology have
started emerging as the trained professionals have started coming back to
Pakistan.
The HEC chief said the country needed 'quality minds' and
'committed professionals' for advancement in the field of science and technology
and this gigantic task could only be achieved "if resources were allocated for
this purpose".
He informed the gathering that Higher Education Commission
had also started international lecturing programme through video conferencing.
After USA, Pakistan is the first country where students have access to
E-lectures and books, he added.
Dr Farhat Moazzam, from Centre of
Bio-Medical Ethics and Culture of Sindh Institute of Urology and
Transplantation, Karachi spoke on kidney trade in Pakistan and stressed on the
need for strict implementation of laws. Dawn
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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