Friday, 30 November 2012

50 colleges set up in Punjab in four years, says minister

LAHORE

Punjab Minister for Education Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman said the Punjab government has opened 50 colleges in the province during last four years, out of which 12 colleges were in Lahore.

Talking to a delegation of students and teachers on Friday, he further said the government was implementing a comprehensive policy to up-grade higher education in the province.

The minister said scholarships were being given to 50,000 students from Punjab Education Endowment Fund (PEEF) this year.

CM asked to take notice: Young Doctors Association (YDA) has demanded the chief minster to take notice of the matter related to Acting Vice Chancellor of King Edward Medical University (KEMU) who is doing his PhD from the same varsity.

In a press release, Young Doctors Association office bearers including Dr Rana Sohail, Dr, Salman Kazmi, Dr Aurangzeb, Dr Aslam Rao, Dr Khuda Bux, Dr Kamran, Dr Khalid ldrees and others said Acting VC Dr Asad Aslam Khan was a student of PhD in his own university and one of his subordinates was acting as his supervisor.

They added it had never happened that the VC of a medical university was a student of PhD in the same university and his subordinate was supervising him.

The Young Doctors Association office bearers further claimed minutes of the meeting which approved the panel of examiners for the defense of the thesis of the acting VC had been issued by his own signatures.

They added further written complaints in this regard had been submitted to PMDC, HEC and the chief minister Punjab.

They appealed to the chief minister to take notice of the matter.

Workshop: A five days workshop on “ELT/Pedagogical Skills” held at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) concluded on Friday.

A press release said the workshop was a joint venture of ELTR Project, Higher Education Commission and US Embassy Islamabad. The international resource person was Dieter Bruhn who is the president of One World Training, LLC.

The areas under discussion were academic English, grammar in context and improvisational English.

In teaching and learning of English language, the role of interactive games and activities, songs and chants, rhythm, stress and intonation was also focused and brought under discussion by Dieter Bruhn. Teacher education and training was also one of the areas under discussion with special focus on teaching effective presentations.

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