ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved a Rs19 million project for establishment of a computer networking and telecommunication infrastructure at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.

Under the project, that would be completed in one year, access to the world’s major journals and data bases will be provided to the students of the institution, said an official statement.

An information technology highway would be established through the internet facility to connect the IBA students with the rest of the academic world. Thus the students and the faculty members of the IBA would be provided access to international journals of economics, finance, business administration and other related disciplines.

The project would not only enhance the research capabilities of the students/faculty through this facility but also increase the standard of computer laboratories and libraries.

It will in turn boost the quality of education of IBA students and productivity of all faculty and staff concerned.

The main objective of the project is to have a modern networking infrastructure comprising state-of-the-art hardware and enterprise software that would allow quality education to be imparted to the students.

Meanwhile, the Higher Education Commission has declared the results of the candidates appeared in the tests for award of Ph.D. scholarships for Austria and Germany.

The results have been dispatched to all the successful candidates on their home and e-mail addresses. All the successful candidates are required to prepare research proposals in advance for their Ph.D. studies.

They are also required to bring original academic and service documents for interview. Their field of study and research experience will be discussed in the interview.

Those who have qualified in the written test for Ph.D. studies in Austria will be interviewed on 15-16 August, 2003 at HEC Headquarters, Islamabad, from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

While the interview programme for the successful candidates for Ph.D. scholarship in Germany will be announced later on. It is to note that for the Ph.D scholarship at Austria, 531 candidates appeared in the tests and 55 of them have qualified the test.

Similarly, for Ph.D. scholarships in Germany, 681 candidates appeared in the test and 113 qualified for the test. The roll numbers of the successful candidates for both the categories are given below.

Austria: 1026, 1029, 1040, 1090, 1093, 1125, 1166, 1314, 1366, 1398, 1432, 1482, 1527, 1567, 1569, 1583, 1593, 1608, 1645, 1667, 1731, 1747, 1750, 1752, 1765, 1808, 1836, 1837, 1847, 1853, 1924, 2013, 2040, 2050, 2069, 2117, 2118, 2125, 2205, 2207, 2209, 2246, 2282, 2295, 2406, 2430, 2513, 2529, 2539, 2627, 3111, 3158, 3159, 3221, 4037.