04 January 2004	Sunday	11 Ziqa'ad 1424

ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: Higher Education Commission (HEC) will review the curriculum of the discipline of Health and Physical Education being taught at public sector universities of the country at graduate and post-graduate levels.

A preliminary meeting of the National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) of HEC for the discipline of Health and Physical Education will be held from Jan 5 to 7, at the HEC Regional Centre, Lahore.

The committee will prepare a draft curriculum of the discipline after a thorough review of the existing curriculum. The draft prepared by the committee would than be sent to all the public sector universities of the country for their views, comments and suggestions.

Prominent educationists and experts of the discipline who have been invited for the meeting are Turs Mohy-ud-Din, B.Z. University, Multan, Prof Dr Muhammad Asghar Javed, Punjab University, Lahore, Shahab Ahmad, University of Sargodha, Asif Jamil, Gomal University, D.I.Khan, Khizar Hayat, Sports Officer, Railway Stadium, Lahore, Dr. A. Waheed Mughal, Pakistan Sports Board, Islamabad, Prof. Mrs. Yasmin Iqbal, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Muhammad Khalid, AJ&K University, Muzaffarabad, Najeeb Channa, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Mrs Abida Shaheen, University of Karachi, Jabir Hussain, Iqra University, Islamabad, Mrs Shaheen Khan, HEC, Islamabad, Shafqat Rasool and Mian Rafiq, College of Physical Education, Lahore, Javed Akhtar, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Mrs Shaheena Ishtiaq, Lahore College of Women University, Lahore, Mrs Tabsum Abbas, BISE, Lahore.-APP