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PU gives laptops to senior professors
LAHORE, May 16(Daily Times): The Punjab University gave the university's senior
professors laptop computers on Tuesday.
PU vice chancellor Arshad Mehmood
gave the laptops to the professors in ceremony at the new campus. He said the
senior professors were the university's assets and were improving the varsity's
education standard. He said the university would provide them every facility for
education and research, so that they could materialise the university's
revolutionary plans actively. He said PU was progressing swiftly because it was
using all its energies on raising the educational standard. Mehmood said that
after the start of the videoconferencing system between the Lahore and
Gujranwala campuses, distance learning and online teaching programmes would soon
be launched. He said initially, B Com, BBA, Banking and Finance, and IT would be
started in the beginning and more disciplines would be included in the programme
later.
He said overseas students would be able to download the courses
from the PU website and would be able to appear in exams conducted by a panel of
examiners available online.
Mehmood said this programme would be the
first of its kind in Pakistan. He expressed the desire to introduce this system
in the varsity's teaching departments. The VC instructed all deans, directors
and principals to present suggestions regarding this system. He asked teachers
to focus on research. The professor who received the laptops are: Shaista Sonu
Sirajuddin, Muhammad Amin Athar, Rass Masood Khan, Syed Shahid Ali, Shahida
Hassnain, Rukhsana Bajwa, Mujahid Kamran, Chaudhry Jamil Anwar, Nasir Ahmad,
Khawaja Harris Rashid, Muhammad Arif Butt, Javed Ahmad, Muhammad Jamshaid,
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Iqbal, Maher Muhammad Saeed Akhtar, Najma Najam,
Yasmin Nilofar Farooqi, Nosheen K Rehman, Shahid Saeed Siddiqui, Shahid Kamal,
Mazhar Moin, Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, Ismatullah Zahid, Muhammad Saleem Malik and
Dil Muhammad Malik, Liaqat Ali, Muhammad Naeem Khan, Taqi Zahid Butt, Nazir
Ahmad Chaudhry, Dr Farasat Ali Syed, Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif and Malik Muhammad
Zaheer.
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