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PU teachers to resist VC 'agenda'
Lahore, Dec 18: The Punjab University Academic Staff Association has demanded the
withdrawal of an agenda item related to adoption of the Punjab Employees
Efficiency Discipline and Accountability (PEEDA) Act 2006 in a
syndicate meeting scheduled for December 18. PU ASA President Dr
Mahr Muhammad Saeed Akhtar claimed that the varsity vice-chancellor had
put an agenda item in the upcoming syndicate meeting to adopt the PEEDA
Act 2006, requesting to delegate all its powers to him. "It
reflects a mala fide intention, as the syndicate is incomplete and there
is no representation of university teachers, and the meeting is being
called in Muharram vacation", he added in the statement. Demanding
withdrawal of the agenda item, Dr Mahr further said there was already a
procedure approved by the Provincial Assembly under the Universities
Act 1973 for employees' efficiency and discipline. "I believe
important decisions like this should be discussed with stakeholders
(university professors and heads of departments), all strengths and
weaknesses should be carefully viewed and then it should be proceeded",
he added. He also claimed that one of PU legal advisors had
already given his opinion that PEEDA Act 2006 was not for universities.
The PU ASA President further said keeping in view strong political and
professional rivalries and implementation of authority many times, it
was not fair, adding it would create a serious problem. He also warned of a strong protest against the agenda item if was was not withdrawn. However,
according to Shahzad Shaukat, one of legal advisors of the PU, PEEDA
Act applied to the varsity, as it was a corporate body under Section 3
of the University of the Punjab Act 1973. It is pertinent to
mention here that the PU has already served show-cause notices under the
PEEDA Act 2006, on two faculty members of the varsity. Faculty
of Behavioral & Social Sciences Dean Prof Dr Mughees Uddin Sheikh
and Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) Director Dr Ahsan Akhtar
Naz were served with show-cause notices after the approval of the
varsity's syndicate. A PU official, seeking anonymity, said no
agenda item related to the adoption of the PEEDA Act 2006 was in the
upcoming syndicate meeting. He said the PEEDA Act already applied to the
varsity and there was no need to adopt it.
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9th class students face problems in online admission forms
Lahore: The candidates, preparing to appear in the 9th class annual examination
2011, have been facing immense problems in submitting online
registration/admission forms. The chocked websites of different
examination boards, lack of IT facilities and more importantly lack of
experience to submit forms through internet are some of the major
problems being faced by the candidates, especially those appearing in
the examination privately. They are also critical of
overcharging by internet cafÈs in the wake of lack of IT facilities for
thousands of students in the government schools and colleges where the
facility is being extended to private candidates as well. The
problems being faced by candidates of far flung rural areas can be
imagined while keeping in view the problems being faced by students of
big cities, as the gap is certainly wide in connection with the
provision of facilities and know-how to use the same. A number
of candidates said that they were greatly irked owing to
problems in filing the forms through the website of the Board of
Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore which, most of the
time, remained chocked on Wednesday. The situation is however
different for regular candidates, appearing from government and private
schools, as the job of filing the form is being done by the school
administration itself. Nonetheless a number of private schools
have also complained about the chocked website, saying the prevailing
situation was annoying the students besides multiplying the
responsibilities of the management of the institutions. It is
pertinent to mention here that December 20, 2010 is the last date of
submitting forms for class 9th annual exam 2011 with single fee of Rs
570 (for science students) and Rs 520 (for arts students) besides Rs 700
as enrolment fee. When contacted, a BISE Lahore official said
earlier a joint server was being used by different boards for their
websites, adding however the same had been divided among different
boards to lessen the burden and to facilitate the candidates by
providing easy access. He said the government schools and
colleges were also open for private candidates to use the IT facilities
for sending forms. He further said there might be some problem owing to
sudden and massive traffic on the website during a particular period of
time. The official said all the boards were also conducting
special workshops to train the IT staff of government schools to
facilitate the students. "We have recently conducted a series of
workshops to ensure capacity building of the officials involved in the
whole process", he added. He further said a programme had also
been planned to send the board's IT experts in schools to train the IT
teachers and create maximum awareness about the online submission of
forms.
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PU results
Lahore: Punjab University's Examinations Department on Wednesday announced the results
of BA special annual examination 2010 held in Washington DC and LLM
(Final), annual exam 2009.
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UHS announced BDS result
Lahore: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Wednesday announced the result
of BDS, second professional, annual examination. According to a press
release, a total of 481 candidates from 10 affiliated dental colleges
appeared in the exam out of which 284 passed and 194 failed. The pass
percentage remained 59.41. Maira Mubashar of Lahore Medical & Dental
College Lahore got the first position securing 742/900 marks. Ushna
Ahmed of Nishter Institute of Dentistry Multan and Ahsan Khalid of
Multan Medical & Dental College Multan got second and third
positions securing 726/900 and 715/900 marks respectively. The
supplementary exams will commence on January 25, 2011. The news
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433 vacant posts await lecturers
Bahawalpur: As many as 433 posts of lecturers are vacant in 35 government colleges in Bahawalpur Division.
According to Bahawalpur Division Director (Colleges) Mushtaq Javed,
two posts of grade 20, 12 of grade 19, 73 of grade 18 and 78 of grade 17
are vacant in 15 women's colleges. Also, two posts of grade 20, 43 of
grade 19, 96 of grade 18 and 127 of grade 17 are vacant in 20 boys
colleges.
The director said he hoped the government would soon take measures to fill these posts. Dawn
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