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PU book fair prep | Interviews for TTS | NTU affairs & Faculty
PU book fair preparations underway
Lahore, May 22, 2008: The Punjab University's (PU) committee formed to organise a book fair from May 28 to May 30 held a meeting on
Wednesday to discuss arrangements.
According to a press release issued by
the PU, the meeting was attended by the conveners of eight organising
committees, deans and heads of various departments with Vice Chancellor Prof
Mujahid Kamran in chair. The book fair is being held to mark the 125th
anniversary celebrations of the university.
The meeting was told that 232
students had been nominated by department heads to organise the
fair.
Earlier, the Publisher and Book Sellers Liaison Committee had had a
meeting with its convener Prof Saleem Mazhar in chair. The report of the meeting
was sent to the vice chancellor. The committee fixed May 24 as the last date for
receiving applications from publishers and booksellers intending to participate
in the fair.
Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif, secretary of this committee, said
that several government and semi-government organisations, including the
Institute of Islamic Culture, Urdu Science Board, Iqbal Academy and Anjuman
Tarqi-e-Adab, had been invited to participate in the book fair.
PU
organises seminar on Internet browsing: The PU History Department organised a
seminar on the use of the Internet with the collaboration of Pakistan Study
Centre on Wednesday.
The seminar aimed at disseminating information on
the academic Internet browsing, access to electronic journals and database
facilities. American Information Resource Centre (AIRC) Director Muhammad Asif
delivered a lecture and explained how various search engines and websites could
be used for gathering information and research material. He said that AIRC
(Lahore) gave access to 50 databases that provided various resources. He said
that those databases stored more than 20,000 electronic journals and billions of
declassified documents. Asif also told about AIRC publications and resources
like books and videos and encouraged students to take full use of these
facilities. Daily Times
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Punjab University Selection board interviews for TTS
Lahore: Punjab University Selection Board Wednesday interviewed candidates
for the posts of three professors and four assistant professors in PU Centre of
Excellence in Solid State Physics under Tenure Track System. The PU VC and
Board's Chairman Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran chaired the meeting, while Centre's
Director Prof Dr Nazima Ikram, HEC representative and Virtual University Rector
Dr Naved Akhtar Malik, Karachi University Applied Physics Department's subject
specialists Prof Dr Muhammad Khalid Anis, Prof Dr Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry from
BZU Physics Department and Dr Muhammad Ishaq SajjadPakistan Institute for
Science and Technology (PINSTECH), Islamabad, attended the meeting.
Meanwhile,
PU spokesman said that Hailey College of Banking and Finance Principal Prof Dr
Khawaja Amjad Saeed attended the "Third Global Conference of Institute of
Management Accountants" in New Jersey, USA and presented his keynote address on
"Strategic Cost Management." Dr Khawaja also attended 5th Annual Conference on
"Advancing Arab Microfinance: Greater Social Impact through Inclusive Financial
Systems" organised by SANABEL in Tunis and conducted a workshop on
"Microfinance: Islamic Perspective" on special invitation of the organizers. The
SANABEL is an Arab countries Network in Microfinance established in Egypt. App
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Faculty breaks silence over NTU affairs
Faisalabad: Faculty members of the National Textile University
(NTU), Faisalabad, have held the administration responsible for deteriorated
conditions on the varsity campus which were disturbing the academic activities
since April 2, sources said on Wednesday.
The faculty members have
first time dared to speak out against the management by writing over certain
issues, which led to the closure of the university twice.
Sources said
the NTU faculty had dispatched a letter titled 'Faculty's perspective on the
current situation at the university' to the board of governors (BoG) of the
institution in which they apprised the board about some 'hidden' facts that
resulted in the closure of the university.
The university was closed
second time on May 13 for a fortnight because of the protest drive launched by
students. Earlier, the NTU was closed on April 8. However, it reopened two weeks
after closure for the first time.
The students have been demanding the
university's accreditation with the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC),
disbandment of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association, an organising body,
and resignation of the vice-chancellor Masood Biabani. In their letter, the
faculty members said that accreditation of the university with the PEC was the
core issue. They said the university administration had failed to accomplish the
requirements mandatory for accreditation and improvement of any engineering
programme.
Mentioning the PEC requirements, the faculty members said
administration could fulfil scores of such prerequisites without spending even a
penny. The provisions are: definition of the mission statement of the
university, educational objectives of the engineering programmes, organisational
structure, students, alumni and employers' feedback on textile engineering
programme initiated by the university, improvement of the NTU website and
establishment of students counselling and placement bureau. However, the
teachers said that the university management did not give the requisite
importance to the PEC certification issue and left the matter in lurch. This
issue alone had exposed the management, which was still using delaying tactics,
they alleged. An excellent transport system was also mandatory according to the
PEC requirements, but no such system existed in the academia. The administration
had also discontinued a faculty performance appraisal system started by the BoG,
they added.
They also said that management did nothing proactively for
the development of institution's faculty, which was the requirement of the PEC.
The management basically intends to authorise a single figure to make decision
about the NTU's fate. Even in the current scenario, faculty members said, the
administration had used delaying tactics to resolve the current crisis by
exhausting the students instead of looking for appropriate solutions on
time.
Suggesting the ways and means to control the situation on the
campus, they suggested that BoG should seek feedback not only from the
representatives of faculty and staff but also from the students. This way would
assist the board to come up with the solution required by the situation, they
added.
Senior faculty member of the NTU, Dr Malik Mumtaz, said that
the university teachers had dispatched a letter to the BoG and apprised them
about the whole scenario of the academia. Dawn
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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