ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Quaid-i-Azam University’s syndicate will meet on Saturday to discuss a number of issues ranging from endorsement of appointments, recommended by the university’s selection board, to students’ affairs, official sources told Dawn.

Recruitment of teachers needs the syndicate’s approval after which appointment letters are issued to the selected candidates.

Besides, they said, some students, who had been handed down various punishments owing to their involvement in different cases, had sought the syndicate’s intervention.

Another item on the meeting’s agenda is the new security plan the university had recently formulated.

It may be added here that the university has hired the services of a private security agency for the first time to guard its exit and entry points as the QAU has been plagued by security issues in the last few years.

The university is also planning to introduce some new courses, the sources said, and the syndicate would also take some decision in this regard.

At present, the QAU is without a librarian and in today’s meeting the syndicate will decide how to fill this post because according to the recently-held written test none of the existing staff members deserve to be a librarian.