HYDERABAD, Jan 10: The Institute of Information Technology (IIT), University of Sindh, announced on Thursday that it had made arrangements for online nationwide lecturing programme of eminent scientists and scholars on different subjects at the multimedia conferring room of the IIT.

According to the announcement by the director IIT, Dr Imdad Ismaili, the online lecture programme initiated by the Higher Education Commission is aimed at providing an opportunity to local scholars and educationists to listen to lectures delivered by eminent scholars of national and international universities on topics relevant to curriculum and modern aspects of different fields.

The lectures would be simultaneously relayed in 22 universities of Pakistan including University of Sindh.

According to the schedule, in the subjects of science, Professor Eduaro Pinho Melo of University of Algarva, Portugal, would deliver his lectures on protein stability and protein folding on Jan 14 and 15 at 2.30pm. Professor Tarisha Greenhalgh of Primary Healthcare London would deliver his lecture on healthcare on Jan 23.

In social sciences, scholars including professor Serge Brand of Psychiatric University Switzerland would deliver his lecture on classroom management on Jan 16; Professor Eileen Clark on the hospital as an institution and Dr Risa Morimoto of Toulouse Business School France, would lecture on climate changes on Jan 22.

Prof Eileen Clark of La Trobe University Australia would deliver lecture on medical dominance revisited and professor Serge Brand of Psychiatric University Switzerland, will deliver lecture on how to explain depressive disorder on January 23.

In this connection, Dr Risa Morimoto of Toulouse Business School delivered first lecture on introduction to sustainable development on Thursday.

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