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Islamia College University becomes functional
Peshawar, Sep 23: Islamia College University became functional on Monday by granting
admissions to about 800 students in various disciplines. The highest marks were
required for getting admission in Bachelor of Business Administration, followed
by the departments of Botany, Zoology and Chemistry. Admissions in BBA were
stopped at 830 marks.
Vice-chancellor Ajmal
Khan expressed pleasant surprise over the high merit. He said that they had
introduced four-year BS Integrated Programme in the university abolishing the
two-year bachelor programme. The BS programme would lead to MS and then to PhD,
he said.
Islamia College Peshawar was declared Islamia College University
in June 2008. The vice-chancellor said that under the four-year programme a
student would have to study three subjects during the first two semesters but
after completing the second semester he/she would have to select a single
subject. "We will allot a single subject to student in the third semester as a
major discipline of study keeping in view choice of student and merit," he
added.
Mr Khan said that completing the process of admission in a single
day was an uphill task, however the staff and members of admission committees
worked zealously and completed the process. He termed it a historic day for the
province as according to him the upgradation of Islamia College to the status of
university was a longstanding demand of the teachers of this ancient educational
institution of Frontier.
Students will have to study a combination of
three subjects. The combinations of science subjects are: Botany, Zoology and
Chemistry; Botany, Zoology and Geography; Botany, Geography and Chemistry;
Geography, Zoology and Chemistry; Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry;
Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science; Mathematics, Physics and Statistics;
Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science and Mathematics, Statistics and
Economics.
While subject combinations for students of Humanities are:
English, Law and Political Science; English, Law and Islamic Theology; English,
Political Science and Economics; English, Islamic Theology and Sharia & Law;
Law, Islamic Theology and Sharia & Law and Political Science, Economics and
Sharia & Law.
Besides sciences and humanities, BBA, BCs and BIC are
the other departments where students can get admission in the four-year
programme.
About the space on the premises of the university, the
vice-chancellor said that they had specified Takbeer Block for the
newly-admitted students. He said that regular classes would begin in the
university from October 13. When asked whether the university would lessen the
burden on Peshawar University, Mr Khan said that there were thousands of
students in the province and the burden could not be lessened only with the
setting up of a new university. "There is need for many more universities to
accommodate all the students," he added. The vice-chancellor hoped that next
year they would be in a better position to grant admissions to more
students.
Dr Hussain Farooq, a member of the admission committee, said
that they had constituted seven different committees with Dr Naeem Khalid as
their head to complete the admission process in a single day. About the need for
more teachers in the university, he said that the administration had advertised
a lot of vacancies in different departments.
"Hopefully recruitments in
all departments would be completed before the commencement of classes," he
added.
He said that students were given an open choice to select their
subjects of interest. He said that all the departments had been given a fund of
Rs200,000 each to establish seminar libraries. "We will provide students with
the books needed in first and second semester," Dr Hussain said. He added that
all faculty members were in high spirit owing to the smooth admission
process. Dawn
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University says PkSF disrupting campus peace
Peshawar: The administration of University of Peshawar has said the activists of
Pakhtun Students Federation (PkSF) are disrupting peaceful environment of the
campus and the Awami National Party-led provincial government was taking no
notice of the activities of the federation.
A spokesman for the Peshawar
University told reporters Monday that despite media reports of misbehaviour of
PkSF activists with the provost of the university, the NWFP government had
failed to take action against the accused students. He said the image of the
university was being tarnished because of the hooliganism of few students and
PkSF leaders are persistently trying to turn students hostel into a hideout and
resorted to highhandedness when the university administration moved in to
restore order.
The provost along with the staff visited Hostel-II of the
university two days back and found that PkSF leaders had occupied some rooms
illegally. When the administration tried to get the rooms vacated, PkSF students
resorted to violence and threats before the campus police arrested them, the
spokesman added.
The activists of PkSF on the other hand accused the
university administration of taking action against them because of the movement
launched by the federation against unprecedented increase in fees. They said the
administration to pressurise the students raided the rooms where only students
affiliated with PkSF were arrested. They rejected the claim that outsiders were
residing in the rooms. The News
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| Education News | | Updated: 26 May, 2012 |
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