University of Sindh BA, MA exams 2011
Schedule for BA, MA exams revised
Hyderabad, Sept 16: The University of
Sindh has extended deadline to Oct 10 for submission of examination forms of
B.A. (regular, external), B.Sc, B.Com, B.Sc home economics (regular)) Part-I and
Part-II, M.A. previous and M.A as external under annual examinations of 2011,
according to a handout. The university took the decision to facilitate regular and external
candidates because of heavy rains in the province. Dawn
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FAPUASA to protest non-payment of increased salaries
Peshawar: Expressing concern at the non-payment of increase in salaries to the employees of several
public sector universities as per announcement in the federal budget, the
Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA)
Thursday announced to launch protest to force the authorities to pay the
teachers. The announcement was made at a joint press conference by
FAPUASA President Prof Dr Fida Mohammad, Prof Dr Jauhar Ali, president Peshawar
University Teachers Association, Prof Dr Ziaullah Sehrai, president Teaching
Staff Association Islamia College University and Engineer Sidique
Akbar. A large number of teachers of different universities were also
present on the occasion. The teachers also staged protest outside the Peshawar
Press Club after their news conference to press the management of their
respective universities to ensure payment of the increased salaries to
them. The teachers representatives said that the 15 percent increase in
salaries had been given to the public sector universities in other parts of the
country. They demanded immediate payment of the raised salaries at all the
universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They observed that it was the duty of
the vice-chancellors to acquire funds for their universities. They urged the
governor to use his influence to ensure payment of the increased salaries to the
university employees. They threatened that if their demands were not
accepted within three days, they would start holding series of general body
meetings at all the universities. The first general body would be held at the
University of Peshawar on Sep 19.
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25 teachers of UoP win research awards
Peshawar: Twenty-five teachers of the University of Peshawar (UoP) have won research productivity
awards of Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and
Technology, Islamabad, for the year 2011. In this connection, a
certificate distribution ceremony was held at the Area Study Centre in the
University of Peshawar (UoP) on Thursday. Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Azmat Hayat
Khan gave away the awards to the winners. The number of award winner
scientists of the UoP was the highest among all universities in the country this
year. Twenty-one among them hailed from chemical sciences, two from earth
sciences and one each from environmental and biological
sciences. Speaking on the occasion, Prof Dr Azmat Hayat Khan said that
the university was proud of its faculty. He added that the science
departments of the varsity especially the chemical sciences have shown excellent
performance and their efforts have been acknowledged by Ministry of Science and
Technology. The vice-chancellor urged the faculty members to focus
attention on establishing more and more academia industry linkages so that local
industries could take benefits from them and come up with state of the art
products at economical prices. Azmat Hayat maintained that researches on
changing dynamics of the country and outbreak of a possible epidemic should be
done so that timely guidelines can be suggested to the policy makers and the
general public could be made aware of the same to take preventive
measures. He also announced formation of a committee under the
chairmanship of senior dean to support such researches and recommend their
findings to the authorities concerned. The news
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Free technical education for 1,500 youth every year
Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti inaugurated a project
here on Wednesday to impart free technical and vocational education to youth in
the reputed institutions of the country to alleviate poverty in the province.
A total 1,500 youth would be imparted technical and vocational training every
year under the project, costing Rs230, said a handout. "The government would
bear all expenses," Mr Hoti told a function, held at Chief Minister House to
inaugurate the project.
He said that it was third poverty reduction project after Bacha Khan Khpal
Rozgar Scheme and Hunermand Rozgar Scheme launched by the provincial
government.
"Geographically Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is situated far way from the seaport while
presently it is also facing insurgency and militancy. Our forefathers had
rendered matchless sacrifices for the motherland in the past and we will
continue to do so," he said.
He said that they had to protect their country from enemies at any cost. He
added that credit for facing the scourge of militancy bravely went to the entire
nation.
"It is very challenging to live in such difficult times as terrorists are
targeting innocent children and elderly people. However, our people are standing
like rock against all such evils," the chief minister added.
He said that some elements were tying to mislead the youth but government was
not oblivious to the situation. "To counter the evil designs of such people, the
government has accelerated socio-economic activities," he said.
Mr Hoti said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was neither poor nor short of resources
as it had all natural resources, including hydel power potential, which if
exploited could change the fate of its people.
"Keeping this fact in mind, two hydel projects - one each at Mataltan and
Lavi - will be inaugurated in December and January next," he said.
He said that they would develop the sectors of tourism and minerals. "The
countries, which took part in the first and second world wars, have also stood
on their feet and developed themselves so why can't we," he asked.
He denied the notion that government was initiating projects for taking
credit, saying they didn't want to get any political mileage out of it rather
they wanted to develop the province on sound footings.
"To get maximum benefits from the God gifted natural resources, we have
planned to set up Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Oil and Gas Company on the basis of
private-public partnership. Dawn
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