KU admissions | Razmak College re-opening
KU offers admission to flood-hit candidates without documents
Karachi, Oct 12: A meeting of the Karachi University admission committee
was held on Monday to discuss the admission policy for the year 2011. It decided that admissions to the institution would commence as per of
the previous year's policy. However, in order to make the procedure less
complicated, it was decided that the candidates seeking admission in
the faculty of pharmacy would be allowed to submit an application on the
same form for morning and evening classes. Separate forms would be
issued for admission in morning and evening classes to those seeking
admission in other KU departments. The meeting also decided to
extend the dates for admissions due to recent flood in the country.
However, in order to give an equal opportunity to all admission seekers,
provisional admissions would be given to the candidates coming from the
flood-affected areas and not in possession of the required documents.
Their admission would be confirmed only when they would be able to
submit the required documents. Meanwhile, a three member
committee has been formed to facilitate the entire process of admission.
The committee will provide guidance to students and parents on
admissions in different disciplines. A special security plan to ensure peaceful conduct of the admission procedures was also discussed at the meeting. ppi
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Fuuast VC seeks liaison with industries
Karachi: Vice-Chancellor Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and
Technology (FUUAST) Prof. Dr Muhammad Qaisar stressed the need of
strengthening ties between varsity students and industry so as to
provide those more job opportunities. Speaking at a seminar organised
by the Faculty of Pharmacy FUUAST in collaboration with the industry,
he said, "The country could be put on the track of development by
strengthening liaison among the industry, students and research
institutions," he noted. The VC said that the industries should
provide short-term sponsored research projects to students. Registrar
Prof. Dr Qamar ul Haq said, "Our industries should try to attain
self-reliance besides taking effective measures to keep in touch with
research institutions. The Guest of Honour, Sardar Yaseen Malik,
said, "The assistance of government is essential for boosting research.
Due to the flawed policies of the government, our country cannot be made
self-sufficient even in preparation of raw material, he regretted.
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Re-opening of Razmak College demanded
Miramshah: The students and their parents on Monday staged protest in Miramshah,
agency headquarters of North Waziristan, asking the government to reopen
the Razmak Cadet College. Speaking on the occasion, parents said the
college administration had assured them to reopen the college in the
first week of October. However, no steps were taken to reopen the
institution till now, they added. They deplored that the college
administration had arranged classes for the students in Hayatabad and
University Town in Peshawar but there were no arrangements for
accommodation due to which the students were facing hardships. The news
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Six schools emerge pool winners in Spelling Bee
Islamabad: Six schools on Monday emerged as pool winner on the
opening day of "6th Dawn in Education National Spelling Bee" contest, at
Islamabad Club Auditorium. The competition is being organised by the Dawn Media Group in partnership with the US embassy. On the opening day six schools - Elite International School, Bahria
College (Cambridge section), Headway Escuela, Westminster High School,
Roots School System (77A) and Beacon House School - emerged as winners
from their respective pools. In every pool, students of 11 schools tested their mettle in spelling bee contest. The students of Rawalpindi, Islamabad and surrounding areas schools,
including Rawalakot, Murree, Kohat, Swat, Kharian and Risalpur would
appear in the five-day contest. A student from Roots School
System, Saad Khan, was the lone participant who astonished many in the
Islamabad Auditorium having a better vocabulary. "Six students
represented every school. However, Saad Khan was the lone participant
from Roots School System and won his respective event," said one
organiser. Dawn
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Varsity has no record of Rahimdad's degree
Peshawar: A representative of the Gomal University in Dera Ismail Khan
Monday informed an election tribunal of the Peshawar High Court (PHC)
that the varsity had no record of the degree of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Senior Minister Rahimdad Khan, which he submitted with the Election
Commission for contesting general election of 2008. Presided over by
Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel, the tribunal was taking up two identical
petitions filed by losing candidates from PF-27 (Mardan-V) Shahid Ali
and Riaz Khan - accusing the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa senior minister of
producing a fake bachelor's degree before the election commission to
contest the general election. According to the rules set for the
general elections held in February 2008, graduation was a prerequisite
for contesting the polls. During the questions session, in-charge of
degree cell of the Gomal University Dr Hafeezullah informed the court on
oath that he checked the degrees record and did not find the name of
Rahimdad Khan in it. Nevertheless, the respondent's counsel Abdul
Lateef Yusufzai requested the tribunal to direct the in-charge of the
degree cell to produce before the court the record of the issued degrees
and blank degree forms of the year 2008 on the next hearing in the
case. The tribunal adjourned the case for November 01. Dr Hafeez also
showed his ignorance about issuance of graduation degree to Rahimdad
when his lawyer produced before him the same for recognition. He said
that signatures of vice-chancellor and controller of examinations were
genuine, but he did not know who issued the degree, as it did not exist
in the record. The petitioners challenged the photocopy of the
provisional certificate of Rahimdad Khan as bogus, claiming that the
gazette result of the annual examination 2005 shows that Rahimdad son of
Bangi Khan, a resident of Lakki Marwat, could not pass the compulsory
subject of English. They requested the tribunal that the election of
Rahimdad should be set aside and the authorities concerned be directed
to take appropriate action against him for committing forgery. They
further prayed the court to direct the election commission to hold
election on PF-27 afresh. The news
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