HYDERABAD, Sept 19: The University of Sindh announced on Wednesday that admission to MBA evening programme in the Institute of Business Admini-stration (IBA) for the academic session of 2008 would start on Sept 22.

The IBA’s two-year MBA evening programme includes specialisation in marketing, finance, management information system (MIS), management, accounting, human resource management and banking especially designed for in-service personnel.

The university said that HBL branches in Sindh University and old campus would issue admission forms on Sept 22 and the last date for submission of forms with required documents was Oct 12 while pre-admission test would be conducted on Oct 20 and while final list would be notified on Oct 22.

APPOINTMENTS: The University of Sindh on Wednesday appointed 24 assistant professors in BPS-19 and 19 lecturers in BPS-18 in various institutes and departments.

The university’s registrar, Mohammad Saleh Rajar, issued appointment orders to four assistant professors in Commerce Department, eight assistant professors in Institute of Business Administration (IBA), three in Sociology and two in Physical Education. One assistant professor each had been appointed in the Department of Library Information Science and Archives Studies, Mass Communication, Economics, Physiology, Urdu, Political Science, Department of Distance Continuing and Computer Education, he said.

He said that among 19 lecturers, the university had appointed three lecturers in the Institute of Commerce, five in the Institute of Physics, two in Physiology, two in Urdu, six in the Institute of Business Administration and one in Commerce Department the Sindh University Laar College Badin.

The university also promoted two officers of BPS-18, M. Nawaz Narejo and B.A Shaikh to BPS-19 and two officers of BPS-17, Ahmed Khan Khaskheli and G.M Bhutto, to BPS-18.

SAU: A training programme on award of scholarships to the undergraduate and postgraduate students on the basis of merit was organised at the Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam on Wednesday.

The programme coordinator, Ahsan Mumtaz, trained students in how to fill in the forms correctly told them that the programme was aimed at giving financial help in the shape of scholarship to the students of rural and backward areas.

He said that the eligible students would be given full scholarship up to the finalisation of degree programme and urged them to derive maximum benefit from this programme.

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