GUJRAT: The University of Gujrat (UoG) has planned to shift the administrative and academic process to automation mode from the manual system of paperwork in three phases in the next six months.

Initial work on the project has been launched, says UoG Vice-Chancellor Dr Ziaul Qayyum in an informal chat with this correspondent.

He said the academic activities from admission to graduation of the students would be shifted to complete automation within four months in the first phase after which a one-window operation for students’ facilitation centre would be established.

In the second phase, he said, the administrative process including employees data, budget and other things would be automated with a special task to connect the external campuses of the varsity with the data centre to be established on the main Hafiz Hayat campus in Gujrat and all the monitoring and reporting of the external (satellite) campuses would be done from the main centre.

He said without technological support, no institution could survive as shifting on the latest technology would help the varsity enhance efficiency and transparency.

Dr Zia said that since his joining as the vice chancellor back in December last year, his focus was to have a better faculty in the UoG which had been struggling on this front. “We have made an achievement by hiring 137 permanent faculty members after completion of a recent selection board and 122 of them have already joined the academic activities,” he said.

He said lecturers and assistant professors had been selected and further hiring of the faculty would be done in July when assistant and associate professors would be selected.

Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2015

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