PU Mycology and Plant Pathology students
PU to address concerns of Mycology and Plant Pathology students
Lahore: The Board of Studies in the
Institute of Mycology and Plant Pathology and Board of Faculty of Life
Sciences have already approved the change of nomenclatures of the
institute and BSc and MSc degrees to remove the grievances over the
status of the institute's degree to safeguard and brighten the job
prospects of the students, Punjab University Acting Vice-Chancellor
Prof Dr Jamil Anwar CH said on Monday. He was addressing a joint
meeting of the faculty and students of the Institute of Mycology and
Plant Pathology at the PU New Campus, which was also attended by
Faculty of Life Sciences Dean Prof Dr Shahida Hussain and Assistant
Professor Dr Ghazala Naseem. It is worth mentioning that the students
of the department had been protesting for two weeks over the status
being given to degrees that was not on an equal level with the degree
of the Agriculture Department. The acting VC told the students
that the Board of Studies in the Institute of Mycology and Plant
Pathology and the Board of Faculty of Life Sciences have already given
their approval to the change of nomenclature from the Institute of
Mycology and Plant Pathology to Institute of Plant Pathology, in
addition to changing the nomenclature of degrees from BSc and MSc
Mycology and Plant Pathology to BSc and MSc Agriculture by adopting the
curricula of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Plant Pathology
for the said degrees. Daily times
PU students stage protest, block road near CM Secretariat
Lahore: Dozens of students from the Punjab University's Institute
of Mycology and Plant Pathology (IMPP) staging a strong demonstration
on Monday blocked road near 90-Shrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam to protest over
what they termed "PU administration's indifferent attitude over degree
equivalence issue." Carrying banners and placards, the
protesting students chanted slogans against PU administration and IMPP
management for not paying attention to their problems. They said
despite details mentioned in the institute's prospectus, their degree
was not being considered equivalent to that of plant pathology
agriculture owing to which students were facing immense problems in
getting jobs. The protestors also alleged that instead of
listening to problems of the students, the PU administration and the
institute's management was threatening the protesting students. After
recording their protest, the students dispersed peacefully while a
traffic mess was witnessed on The Mall for quite some time. Meanwhile,
a PU press release said that PU Acting Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Jamil
Anwar Ch while addressing a joint meeting of faculty and students of
the Institute of Mycology and Plant Pathology (IMPP) at New Campus here
on Monday said the Board of Studies in Mycology and Plant Pathology and
the Board of Faculty of Life Sciences had already given their approval
for changing nomenclature of Institute of Mycology and Plant Pathology
to Institute of Plant Pathology in addition to changing nomenclature of
degrees from BSc (Hons) and MSc (Hons) Mycology and Plant Pathology to
BSc (Hons) and MSc (Hons) Agriculture (Plant Pathology) by adopting
curricula of HEC in Plant Pathology for the said degrees. He
said was done to remove genuine grievances of students over equivalence
of the institute's degree to safeguard their future and brighten up
their prospects for job opportunities.Similarly, both the bodies had
also approved arranging deficiency courses in special semesters for
existing students as well as those who have already qualified to bring
them at par for the proposed degrees BSc Agriculture (Plant Pathology)
or MSc Agriculture (Plant Pathology), he added. Dr Jamil Anwar
further said the students who had already passed out would surrender
their old degrees for acquiring new ones after completion of one-year
deficiency course. He further said the adoption of HEC curricula from
the academic Session 2010 had also been approved. The news
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Facebook fury erupts in Mianwali district
Mianwali: Traders and educational institutions observed a
complete shutter down strike on Monday throughout the district in
protest at a controversial image competition deemed blasphemous by the
Muslims, posted at social network site Facebook. Hundreds of
protesters, including seminary students, assembled at Railway Chowk in
the morning carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans
against blasphemers and marched towards Ikram Niazi Shaheed Chowk
blocking traffic for one hour. Speakers urged the people to prepare for jihad against such hate acts. Strike and processions were held in Piplan, Kalabagh, Isakhel, Daukhel, Wan Bhachran, Kundian, Qamar-Mushani and Mooch.
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Land for BZU Layyah sub-campus
Multan: The Punjab government has transferred 120 acres of land
to the Bahauddin Zakariya University for its Layyah sub-campus. BZU
vice-chancellor Dr Zaffarullah said here on Monday that the university
would establish an agriculture research institute and a livestock
department in the Layyah sub-campus to help improve the economic and
social development in the area. He said initially the classes
in the Layyah sub-campus, established in September 2009, were started
in four disciplines - MBA, Economics, psychology and English. MPA
Mahr Ejaz Achlana said the Punjab government had released seed money of
Rs46.6 million and parliamentarians of the Layyah district had decided
to engage the Higher Education Commission in this project. Dawn
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Two students arrested for using unfair means in exams
Faisalabad: Two students were arrested red handed on charge of
using unfair means to solve their papers in the Intermediate
Examination 2010. A spokesman of the Board of Intermediate and
Secondary Education (BISE) Faisalabad told APP that an examination
centre was established at Government Millat Degree College Ghulam
Muhammad Abad to facilitate the students of this locality. He told that
two students, Nazim and Saddam Husain, were using unfair means i.e.
copying to solve their question papers at this centre. However, the
examiner caught them red handed and later both the accused were handed
over to police.
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NUST delegation visits LCWU
Lahore: A delegation from the National University of Science and
Technology (NUST), Islamabad, led by Pro-Rector Air Vice Marshal Asif
Raza visited the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Monday. According
to a press statement, LCWU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Bushra Mateen
briefed the delegation on the varsity activities. The delegates visited
different departments of the university and showed keen interest in TV
and FM Radio studios in the Mass Communication Department. Mass
Communication Department Chairperson Dr Anjum Zia informed the
delegation that the department was focusing on producing manpower
compatible for print as well as electronic media and for this purpose
audio-video labs had been set up with professional standards. The
delegation participated in live broadcastings of LCWU radio channel FM
96.6 NUST Director Academics Brigadier (retd) Zuhr Khan and head of the
Mass Communication Department Prof Dr Masroor were also present. The news
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