LAHORE, Nov 7: Governor Khalid Maqbool has said the first session of the Punjab Assembly would be convened after the announcement of the date of National Assembly session.

He was talking to newsmen at the Punjab University’s Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) here on Thursday.

The governor, however, parried questions about the ongoing protest by teachers, doctors and students against the constitutions of board of governors for the public sector hospitals, the privatization of nationalized schools and the promulgation of the Model University Ordinance.

Earlier, the governor spoke of government’s policies to improve higher education in the province. He asked the universities to coordinate research so that their students could benefit from it. The government would continue funding the institution involved in research.

The governor said that he had directed the vice-chancellors of the universities to revise their curricula to improve the standards and quality of their education. He said the universities would have to produce leaders to help the country’s economy.

He urged the CEMB administration to help promote agricultural and industrial growth in the country.