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Semester squeeze irks students
Karachi, June 05: Reduction in the duration of MS semester (March-May 2009) of Karachi University (KU) students have spread a sense of fear among them of getting low marks in their examination, which had started from June 2, The Nation has learnt.

It was told that the present MS semester (Jan-May 2009) was begun too late on March 16, 2009 and ended on May 30 which resulted in such shortcoming of two and a half months. This has caused problems for the students, but the KU administration did not even pay attention to the issue and rejected the demand of the students to hold semester exams in July to compensate their 2.5 missing months.

The students expressed their serious concerns over the issue and said that due to shortage of time the teachers had compelled to cut down certain chapters and topics in every subject. "Some students, taking serious notice of the issue, have written a letter to the KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim to give more time for the completion of the courses but the KU VC did not consider their request," they added.

"This stance by the KU administration has had profound effect on both our learning and our study schedule, as we are already too pressed by the projects. We have to give a reasonable time to every subject but moreover this two-edge sword (shortage of semester duration) has done great damage to our learning experience; something to which any sane human would not consent," they added.

They said that they found themselves in another acute pressure of obtaining 75 per cent marks in every subject. Henceforth, they are being ill-treated on three different grounds: (i) scoring higher than usual marks; (ii) not getting proper understanding of all courses being taught in such a short time; and (iii) being unable to use this knowledge in the next year thesis writing phase.

KU Registrar Prof Rais Alvi, when contacted, said that the university had not received any application related to this issue, however, the semester exams were being held normally at the campus. The Nation

KU MBBS Examination dates
Karachi: University of Karachi (KU) MBBS First Professional Part A Supplementary examinations will commence from June 8 and conclude on June 16. Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) First Professional Part B Supplementary examinations will commence from June 9 and conclude on June 13. The News

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PST test results
Hyderabad: The Sindh University has announced result of the test for the posts of primary schoolteachers of Karachi and Naushahro Feroze districts. The test was conducted on May 24.

The centre has also announced the result of PST test of Jacobabad and Khairpur districts conducted on May 19. Dawn

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Universities, corporate sector coop imperative
Karachi: Cooperation between corporate sector and educational institutions is imperative in order to produce suitable human resource with skills and abilities required by the job market.

Speaking at a Project Exhibition and Career Fair organised by Bahria University at its Karachi Campus on Thursday, Commander Logistics Pakistan Navy, Rear Admiral Azher Shamim Anwer said: "We should support all such joint efforts where varsities and corporate sector organisations could come up at a platform to provide jobs to fresh graduates."

Earlier, he visited the project exhibition & career fair of Bahria University where around 18 corporate sector organisations had set up their booths to search for suitable human resource for their respective organisations.

He also visited the projects displayed by Bahria University Students. Bahria University Karachi Campus organises this career fair as a semester-event to provide a platform where students and the corporate world can be congregated with the prospect of knowing each other strengths and requirements.

Speaking on the occasion, Director Bahria University Karachi Campus Capt Retd Ashfaq Agha said that it would be highly advantageous for the students in terms of getting aware of the job market requirements as well as the prevailing trends in corporate sector.

He said that organisations would be able to offer training/employment opportunities to the recently graduated students after giving them their company presentations, open house interactive sessions, recruitment test and on spot interviews.

Agha said that the purpose of organising "Project Exhibition" was to provide our graduating student of software hardware & electronic engineering with a resolute platform to expose their inner talents and creativity, thus to prove that sheer hard work and determination can diminish the impossibilities and bring up the growing hope of superior achievements by putting their final projects on display.

Hundred of fresh Bahria graduates participated in the Fair to explore and apply for jobs posted by participating organisations. They appeared in on-the-spot interviews, listened to speakers, and interacted with HR heads of local and multinational companies regarding career opportunities. The Nation

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HEC team visits Sindh university
Hyderabad: A team of Human Resource Development (HRD) Indigenous Scholarship of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) visited the University of Sindh (SU), Jamshoro, on Thursday.

The HEC team, headed by Mahmood Raza, Adviser for HRD-Indigenous Scholarships-HEC, met Vice Chancellor (VC) SU Mazharul Haq Siddiqi and discussed the progress of indigenous scholarships allocated for research projects to the SU faculty.

The Pro VC, Dr Rafia Ahmad Sheikh, and Adviser Planning and Development, SU, Muhammad Husain Sheikh, also attended the meeting.

A separate meeting was held at the Committee Room of the Planning and Development department committee between the HEC representatives and indigenous scholars of the SU, in which the progress of research projects was discussed.

The HEC team expressed satisfaction on the overall output of the ongoing research in the National Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry, the Institute of Information and

Communication Technology (IICT), the Institute of Biotechnology and Genetics Engineering, the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (IMCS), the Department of Library Information Science, the Archives Studies and other institutes and departments. The News

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