KARACHI, Nov 19: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will provide Rs36.5 million to Karachi University within the next four months for its networking based on fibre optics, which will be used for provision of Internet as well as interlinking of various departments and sharing of other important data.

This was stated by Vice Chancellor KU Dr Zafar Saeed Saify while talking to newsmen at the campus here on Wednesday.

Dr Saify said the HEC was purchasing international scientific journals and other important data from abroad, in order to provide it to local students and faculty and networking at major varsities of the country was a prerequisite to share that important data simultaneously at all the higher educational institutions in the country. The VC added that the establishment of an engineering faculty was also in the offing.

He said the inauguration ceremony of the new building of Karachi University Business School (KUBS) will be held on Friday, Nov 21.

“The present building of KUBS is not sufficient for a large number of students and we are also going to start some new degree programmes in addition to the increasing number of seats in BBA and MBA programmes,” he said.

Dr Saify further said that the under-construction building of the Umair Basha Institute of Technology would be completed by the start of next year, where latest facilities in the field of Information Technology would be made available for students.—PPI