HYDERABAD, Feb 19: The University of Sindh will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Leicester of the United Kingdom in near future to send faculty members to UK for PhD studies in natural sciences and social sciences under faculty development programme.
A meeting held on Monday between Sindh University Vice-Chancellor Dr Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, senior member of faculties and Dr Michael Green, senior international officer of the University of Leicester discussed terms and conditions for finalising the MoU’s draft to be signed in near future.
Mr Green informed the meeting that his university, established 1921, had 10,000 full-time and 10,000 part-time students in graduate, undergraduate and postgraduate level. The university was a top-ranking university among 110 universities in UK, he added.
Mr Siddiqui shed light on the academic and educational programmes in which the university was preparing to extend scholarship to faculty members for PhD studies. The university had 16,000 students registered at the campus and 60,000 students enrolled in affiliated colleges, he said.
Faculty of Social Sciences Dean Dr Rafia Ahmed Shaikh, Planning and Development Adviser Mohammad Hussain Shaikh, Prof Agha Rafiq and faculty members of Mass Communication Department also attended the meeting.
POSTPONED:The registrar of the University of Sindh announced on Monday that prize distribution ceremony scheduled to be held at the Governor’s House on Feb 22 had been postponed and the new date would be announced later.
LAST DATE: The director of admissions of the University of Sindh announced on Monday that the students of the MBA first-year evening programme 2005 session should fill application forms and deposit fee for admission to MBA second year up to March 3.
APPEAL: The members of academic council of the University of Sindh on Monday appealed to the governor of Sindh to reinstate Prof Nazeer Hussain Pathan, principal of the Government Sachal Sarmast Arts and Commerce College Hyderabad, because they stressed the orders issued for his suspension were illegal.
Prof Mushtaq Rajput, Prof Ms Saeeda Bashir, Agha Abdul Nabi Pathan, Khalid Rajput, Hussain Samdani and Ms Parveen Channa said in a joint statement that according to the recommendations of the Higher Education Commission, only teachers possessing degrees in commerce should be made principals at the commerce colleges.
FLOWER EXHIBITION: The district government would organise a three-day “Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai” flower exhibition in the city, which would run from March 2, decided a meeting chaired by District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Monday.
Mr Jamil said that the exhibition had been named after the great Sufi poet and saint, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, as it coincided with his 263rd Urs celebrations.
He asked the nazims of all the four talukas to decorate all the roundabouts in their areas with flowers. A separate corner should be reserved in the exhibition for holding a competition among women.
The meeting formed an organising committee and a security committee with DPO Ali Ahmed Junejo as its head to make arrangements for security at the exhibition.
The taluka nazims of Latifabad and rural taluka, DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed, project director food technology of Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, heads of district government departments and educational institutions and representatives of growers and NGOs attended the meeting.
