KARACHI, July 10: Seventeen students of various faculties of the University of Karachi will be conferred with PhD degrees. And twelve more students to be given MPhil degree, one to get MS degree, while 67 students have been given admissions to PhD/ MPhil programmes in different disciplines.

This was told to a meeting of the KU Board of Advance Studies and Research held here on Saturday with vice-chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui in the chair.

Speaking at the meeting the vice-chancellor said that the teachers and students should set special priorities in the field of research, so that students could be imparted with modern learning, and future needs of the country could be catered.

He said that only with sciences and technology the challenges of future could be met and asked that students should be offered incentives for higher education under the scholarship scheme of the Higher Education Commission (HEC).—PPI