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AIOU postgraduate exams | UET closed | World Science Fair
AIOU postgraduate examinations begin on June 1
Islamabad, May 22, 2008: Allama Iqbal
Open University will hold examination of all postgraduates programmes for Autumn
Semester 2007 from June 1. Controller Examination Hafeez Ullah Wednesday said
admission cards to all postgraduates programmes had been dispatched to the
students on given addresses. He said the roll number slips were also available
at AIOU website www.aiou.edu.pk where they could download the copy of roll no
slip. If any student, he added, does not receive the admission cards or slips up
to May 22, should contact nearest regional office or examination department of
the main campus on 051-9057334.
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UET closed till June 8 following protests
Peshawar: Following series of protests by students against prolonged
loadshedding and police torture, administration of the NWFP University of
Engineering and Technology Wednesday closed down the varsity till June
8.
A UET registrar's notification says that the university will remain
closed till Jun 8 due to the uncertain situation. The students of the university
under the aegis of Muttahida Talaba Mahaz gathered outside the office of the
vice chancellor to condemn what they called the inhuman torture by the campus
police on their colleagues who were protesting against the persistent power
outages and university's inability to provide power generators.
They said
the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) led UET students took to streets on Tuesday night
to urge the university administration to provide them power generators. "We were
peacefully marching towards the coffee shop, when a police party started beating
us cruelly. The police also picked up 36 students who were tortured in the
lockup," said Muhammad Fakher, Nazim IJT, UET.
He said four of the
detained students sustained serious injuries, while one fell unconscious. On
Wednesday, the students boycotted classes, gathered in the main lawn and raised
slogans against Vice Chancellor Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gilani. They were also
holding placards with slogans against the campus police and university
administration.
Meanwhile, with the mediation of some senior teachers
between the protesting students and the administration, the varsity
administration agreed that no FIR would be lodged against the protesting student
and action would be taken against the police constables namely Ihsan and Akram,
who had tortured the students while generators would also be provided to the
hostels.
After several hours of protest they dispersed peacefully.
However, afterwards the university administration closed down the institution
for 17 long days. The students, however, opined that the closure of the
university was not acceptable and they would start a protest drive against
it.
The first protest demonstration to this effect would be held today
(Thursday) outside the Peshawar Press Club, Fakher said. It may be mentioned
that the frequent loadshedding in the educational institutions on the premises
of the University Campus Peshawar has been badly affecting the students
particularly those appearing in the ongoing FA/FSc examination and those
preparing for their professional colleges examinations such as the Khyber
Medical College, and others.
The administration of University of Peshawar
had closed down its constituent institutions for five days, when a major fault
developed in the electricity system in Peshawar as a result of blowing up of a
500kv tower at Sheikh Mohammadi grid station.
After the university was
reopened, the administration arranged power generators for the boarding students
to save their time from being wasted. This provoked the students of Islamia
College Peshawar, Khyber Medical College Peshawar and UET to stress their
respective administration to arrange power generators.
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Pak student shines at World Science Fair
Islamabad: Fatima Shami from Pakistan has won the Silver Award in the
World Virtual Science and Engineering Fair at an award ceremony organised by The
College of North Atlantic Doha-Qatar recently.
The awards were presented
in front of an audience made up of students and VIPs. The ceremony also
featured films about the finalists and their projects, testimonials and a speech
by Canadian astronaut and special guest judge, Dr Roberta Bondar.
The
World Virtual Science and Engineering Fair (WVSEF) organised by the College of
North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q), in partnership with Qtel, brought together young
scientists from five continents.
Of the science students from around the
world who submitted science projects virtually (over the Internet); eight
finalists team travelled to Doha for the final judging and awards
ceremony.
The special guest and judge at the WVSEF, Roberta Bondar said,
"The virtual aspect of the fair is quite unique and allows students who don't
normally have access to science fairs to be involved and compete against
students from all over the world. I am a big supporter of science fairs like
this. They stimulate science and education through rewarding excellence."
Bondar was the world's first neurologist in space and the first Canadian
woman in space on the shuttle Discovery mission in 1992.
CNA-Q's
president, Harald Jorch said: "This is a world first and a great event for the
college - we were thrilled to welcome these young scientists and the
distinguished judges from around the world.
All of the projects were very impressive and the participants should be proud to have made it to
the final judging in Doha." The News
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Opening up varsities?
Reference the proposal for an IT university in GOR I, we agree with the
letter opposing the move, as it would be impractical to locate a
college/university in the midst of sensitive officials' residences. However, a
better proposal could be shifting the Governor's House to the Chief Minister's
House and converting its present premises into a university. The huge area of
the Governor's House would be ideal for a medical/engineering university. Due to
its ideal location on the Mall, with easy approach from different localities, it
would be really convenient for the poor students who should get free education
here. While doing this, it should be ensured that the historic buildings within
the compound should not be altered. There is ample space in the present
Governor's House for new buildings. A whole education city can be built here.
GHULAM RASUL & HUSSAIN RIAZ, Lahore - The Nation
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A week of weakening QAU administration
Islamabad: The litigious and quarrelsome villagers encroaching on the land of
Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) are not allowing the varsity administration to
fence the property with barbed wire exposing the faculty and the students to
muggers and thieves.
The students of hostel number 8 located far from the
university are more prone to attacks in the evening by intruders who, the
varsity and the district administration believe, are no other than the
villagers. Mobile and purse snatching is common on the campus.
The
officials have said, "The administration wanted demarcation of the
entire campus, not only hostel no 8, but the encroachers did not allow it to do
so on the excuse that it would hurt privacy of their houses."
"The
university has been held hostage to the encroachers," said an official.
Students, they said, had lodged with the administration complaints to
the effect time and again but the administration simply could not do any thing
in this regard.
Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, a local MNA, is of the view
that the encroachers have been living in the area for over 50 years and it was
unfair to displace them after formation of the university.
QAU Vice
Chancellor M Qasim Jan said the university administration did not want to get
involved in any dispute with the encroachers, which was why it had preferred
fixing the barbed wire away from their houses. He said there was a security
issue because of a constant presence of the encroachers on the campus.
A
female professor was attacked in May 2007 by an outsider. Since then the
administration has been trying to build a boundary wall of the campus but
failed.
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MSF oath-taking ceremony at FUUAST
The Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) administration has not allowed the Muslim Students
Federation (MSF) to hold oath-taking ceremony of its officeholders during a
seminar on 'students and Contemporary Challenges'.
Reportedly, a
political party had allowed the students to hold the ceremony at its
secretariat. A university official thinks that the students should have been
allowed to hold the ceremony on the campus so that outsiders could not exploit
them, carrying forward their political agenda.
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IST seminar to promote extra-curricular activities
Institute of Space and Technology (IST) arranged a two-day seminar on 'twin city
inter-university challenge' in which 13 universities participated. The aim of
the programme was to promote extra-curricular activities.
Competitions
of debate, photography, poetry etc were held and Riphah International University
grabbed most of the prizes. Daily Times
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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