Punjab university bachelors exams 2010

PU announces BA/BSc exams schedule
Lahore, March 16: The Punjab University examination department has announced that the BA/BSc annual examinations for 2010 will begin from April 14 and conclude on May 6. PU will remain closed on March 23 (Tuesday) on account of Pakistan Day. Dawn

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Manhandling, hurling threats
Lahore: The Islami Jamiat Tulaba has again been accused of manhandling and hurling threats – this time at a Punjab University teacher, who is also assistant superintendent of Hostel No 19.

PU Kashmiriyat department lecturer Sardar Asghar Iqbal has reported to the vicechancellor and other officials concerned in writing that some IJT activists hah manhandled and threatened him. Punjab University Teachers Alliance leaders Prof Dr Saeed Ahmad Nagra, Dr Shaukat Ali and Dr Zaid Mahmood have also strongly reacted to the `incident' and demanded that the vice-chancellor take stern action against those elements who tried to insult a teacher, and remove the food court near teacher's residence.

They said the VC must ensure teachers' respect on the campus. Mr Iqbal, in his application, stated that there was a food court cabin near his official residence, which was a `den' of IJT activists. On March 13 late evening, Mr Iqbal said he went to the food court along with his three guests, where the staff refused to serve him tea.

In the meantime, four IJT activists came there and said that he would not be served because he had objected to IJT and its food price control committee. Mr Iqbal said as he argued with them, the IJT activists manhandled him and threatened him with dire consequences.

Later, he said, some 15 IJT men came to his house and hurled threats at him. An IJT spokesman said the food court did not serve tea and the teacher had exchanged hot words with its servicemen, due to which the IJT had intervened.

He said some hostel students had also complained against the assistant superintendent, claiming that he used to ask them to do some personal jobs.

About IJT's food price control committee, the spokesman said the students were the major stakeholders who purchased eatables from canteens on the campus as well as hostels' area.

With particular reference to a newly-established canteen at the Institute of Communication Studies, the spokesman said the canteen contractor was selling different food items at exorbitant prices.

He, however, denied that the canteen was closed because male and female students were sitting together. Dawn

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PU awards two PhDs
Lahore: The Punjab University (PU) has awarded PhD degrees to two students in Punjabi and Persian. According to a press statement, Syed Wasim Raza Gardazi, the son of Syed Iqbal Hussain, has been awarded a PhD in Punjabi after approval of his research thesis "Psychological Analysis of the Characters of Heer Waris Shah." He completed his thesis under the supervision of Dr Saeed Khawar Bhutta, associate professor, PU Department of Punjabi.

Sofia Perveen, the daughter of Kh Siraj ud Din, has been awarded a PhD in Persian. She completed her thesis "Impact of the Works of Iranian and Central Asian Scholars on Persian Literature in Subcontinent from 998-1526 AD" under the supervision of Dr Sayyid Muhammad Farid, assistant professor, PU Department of Persian.

Later, Prof Dr Conrad Schetter and Prof Dr Katja M Mielke from University of Bonn visited the Punjab University's Department of History, Pakistan Study Centre (PSC) and Dept of Political Science.

A colloquium was held with the students and teachers of Faculty of Arts and Humanities in order to discuss the possibilities of cooperation between Punjab University and University of Bonn.

Late Prof Annemarie Schimmel of Oriental Studies, Bonn University has laid the foundation of cooperation between Pakistan and Germany. The delegation expressed their desire to extend the cooperation to include the exchange of students and teachers of both, the Universities of Punjab and Bonn.

Prof Shimmel's long tradition of working on the projects related to Pakistan will be continued by the academicians of both the universities to revive the relationship at various levels of working together in educational projects, building up deeper relationship between the two countries through teamwork research projects for master and PhD Students in the medium and long term.

The colloquium also explored the potentials for universities partnership in other areas. Prof Dr S Qalb-i-Abid, Dean Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Prof Dr Massarrat Abid, Director Pakistan Study Centre, welcomed the guests.

Professors from Bonn University also inaugurated the sports week held at History Department and announced that a student delegation from University of Bonn will visit Punjab University in September this year to lay the foundation of deepening the relations between Germany and Pakistan.

Later, Lahore High Court chief justice nominated LHC Judge Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry as member Punjab University Syndicate, in place of Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, for three years, says a PU press statement issued on Monday.

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IT labs in 7,500 middle schools
Lahore: Chief Minister's Taskforce on Elementary Education chairman Raja Muhammad Anwar has said, after setting up 4,286 IT labs in high schools, the Punjab government plans to set up computer labs in 7,500 public sector middle schools by 2013.

Addressing the concluding session of one-day "Orientation on Universal Primary Education Campaign-2010", which was arranged by School Education Department and held at the Directorate of Staff Development on Monday, Raja Anwar said 17,000 public sector schools had been converted into English medium from April 2010, to ensure quality education for the students with poor socio-economic milieu. He said the program aimed at promoting uniform education structure for all the students.

Raja Anwar said the IT lab project would enable students from the far-off areas to have access to the latest trends in knowledge. He expressed concern on the fact that, even in the 21st century, our schools were without even some basic facilities, like the availability of furniture for the 99,000 teachers.

He asked EDOs (Education) and teachers to mobilize the nearby community to lend a helping hand in the development of schools as it would bring about prosperity for the areas.

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New dental college
Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has given approval for a new dental college that will offer 50 seats in Bachelors of Dentistry (BDS).

This was disclosed in a meeting presided over by Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hasan Fawad on Monday. It was told that the new college will be part of the Punjab Medical College Faisalabad.

The meeting was told that staff for teaching as well as clinical side is being recruited. For this purpose, he said, 95 posts on teaching side including one professor, four associate professors, nine assistant professors and 35 demonstrators have been created.

On the clinical side, 151 vacancies including MS/Chief Dental Surgeon, two senior dental surgeon, one senior registrar, one DMS, one nursing superintendent, one registrar and three posts of dental surgeons have been created.

An amount of Rs 16 million had been released to meet the expenditure of salaries, allowances etc. for remaining months of the current financial year 2009-2010.

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Cheating in Matric exam
Lahore: Unfair means cases were registered against nine candidates in English paper of the Matriculation annual exam on Monday.

A press release issued from Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore said the candidates were actually prisoners. Their roll numbers are 105853, 105878, 105880, 105804, 100703, 100706, 105890, 105816 and 105817. It said they were appearing in the exams from Kot Lakhpat Jail.

Meanwhile, a candidate roll number 78595 was caught red handed while cheating through mobile phone at exam centre B, Government High School for Boys, Sheikhupura. BISE Lahore Controller Examination Prof Manzur ul Hassan Niazi said the examination in Ferozepur Road leading to Kasur area where protesting people had torched few buses went smoothly as the paper had started before the controversy erupted.

He said by the time the exam concluded, the protestors had dispersed owing to which second group exam also went smoothly. Meanwhile, a DGPR handout said that Additional Secretary Higher Education Yawar Hussain visited various examination centres of Multan Board and during the inspection of a centre set up in Multan Central Jail four students were caught red-handed using unfair means.

Higher Education Department directed Chairman Board to change the staff of the centre and take action against them under the relevant rules. Deputy Secretary Higher Education Department Mehmood ul Hassan inspected various examination centres of Bahawalpur and five students were caught cheating. He had them arrested on the spot.

Secretary Higher Education Ahad Khan Cheema and Additional Secretary (Academic) visited various examination centres in Lahore. They reviewed the facilities being provided at the examination centres and checked the answer sheets of the candidates. They found the examination process transparent and expressed satisfaction over the arrangements.

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UHS employees strike
Lahore: Contract employees of the University of Health Sciences observed a pen-down strike on Monday to protest against the university administration's decision to not to regularise contract employees from grade 1 to 15 violating the Punjab government's order.

Employees protested against university administration for inflicting police torture on employees fighting for their rights. They chanted slogans against the university administration headed by Vice-Chancellor Prof Hussain Mubashar Malik and also accused him of making illegal appointment of Director (Admn & Coord) Col (retd) Jawaid Iqbal and making him in-charge of multiple offices in the university.

They observed that all other institutions had complied with the Punjab government's orders and regularised all contract employees from grade 1 to 15, but the UHS administration had violated the provincial government's order.

They demanded of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif take notice of university's non-compliance of his order, and urged him to intervene.

The university's contract employees' protest has entered the second phase on Monday. Employees would observe pen-down strike for three days from March 15 to 17, starting from Monday. In the first phase, contract employees observed token strike against non-regularization.

In the third phase, they plan to stage a sit-in in front of the university. Furthermore, they have announced that they will continue their protest until regularization of all contract employees from grade 1 to 15.

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GCU career guidance fair
Lahore: The Government College University (GCU) Career Guidance & Placement Centre (CGPC) on Monday organised 'Career Fair 2010' at Bokhari Auditorium to explore the possibilities of placing its final year students and graduates in reputed organizations besides giving them opportunities to avail foreign scholarships.

As many as 24 international and national companies take part in the event. Written tests and on-campus interviews were conducted by the companies to shortlist the candidates. The stall of United States Education Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) remained the centre of attraction at the fair. The foundation representatives briefed the students about various foreign scholarships including Fulbright and also guided them about the procedures, requirements and eligibility criteria.

The GCU Career Guidance Centre also offered counselling services to students at the fair to help them identify their talents and interests in making career choices, academic planning and exploring future professions.

GCU CGPC In charge Yousaf Bashir said that the Career Fair was organized to build a strong foundation for professional career of students, so that they could excel into market at a rigorous pace. The news

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