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By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Metropolitan University Karachi (MUK), which was chartered by the Government of Sindh in 2015, awaits the No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Islamabad-based Higher Education Commission (HEC), before opening admission at its spacious campus located on University Road near Safoora Chowk. By the look of things, the management of the MUK has started feeling burdened by the long delay as it has not been able to open admissions despite having invested heavily in the development of the various facilities at their campus during the last five years. Despite being chartered from the Sindh Provincial Assembly in 2015, they have been deprived of the opportunity to initiate their academic activities even after five years. The MUK is believed to have built facilities at the campus at an estimated cost of PKR 500 million, on a piece of land whose commercial value is thought to be around PKR two billion. The university complex app...

Pakistan News & Features Services   The Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, has been warned for violating the government directives regarding prevention from Coronavirus epidemic.  According to details, the Deputy Commissioner Karachi East had visited the SSUET, located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, on March 17 to check the precautionary measures against Coronavirus, which were supposed to be taken by the university management.  Accompanied by the SHO Gulshan-e-Iqbal, the Deputy Commissioner East was believed to have been surprised at having found the institution open with around 1,000 plus teaching and non-teaching staff in attendance at campus on duty in violation of the directives from the federal and provincial governments.  The Higher Education Commission (HEC) had also advised the university for adoption of safety precautions against Coronavirus epidemic which were ignored.  Coronavirus has been declared a se...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has granted funding for an innovative study designed to identify how different methods of teaching Mathematics and Science can improve children’s understanding of these key subjects. The study will be conducted by researchers from the Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development (IED) over a period of at least three years.  During this period, educational experts will analyse a demographically representative sample of children and teachers across the country to gather evidence on how educators perceive existing educational methods and to identify teaching approaches which give students the strongest grasp of concepts in these two areas.  “Students who excel in Mathematics and Science possess the skills needed to innovate and to power Pakistan’s progress. By evaluating the value of teaching methods in these two subjects in classrooms across t...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News &  Features Services) The 10-day long trials for selection of teams for the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Games started at the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET), Karachi, on November 2. The SSUET will be selecting 14 teams including those of cricket, football, hockey, volleyball and basketball.  These teams will play in the HEC Games, scheduled to start from December 2016 at different venues of various universities all over Pakistan.  The trials for selection of the SSUET teams are being organized by the SSUET’s sports department.  The Director Sports, SSUET, Mubbashir Mukhtar, informed that the trials will help find out new talents to replace those who passed out after completion of their studies. He said that about 1,200 to 1,500 students will be participating in trials for 14 to 16 different disciplines. The SSUET has shown good performance in sports competitions...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has granted permission to the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET), Karachi, for organizing a zonal football tournament as well as the final round of All Pakistan Tug of War. The decision was taken at a recent meeting of HEC held in Islamabad to review sports activities at universities level.  The meeting, held annually, was attended by the Director Sports of all the universities. The SSUET was represented by its Director Sports Mubashir Mukhtar.  The HEC agreed to the SSUET proposal of holding the zonal football round and the final round of Tug of War. On the occasion the Mubashir Mukhtar also presented annual report of the university’s sports activities, informing the meeting about a number of inter-departmental tournaments in cricket, hockey, football, badminton, volleyball, table tennis and an All Karachi Inter-Varsities Jashn-e-Azadi cr...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Prof Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, has said that our younger generation was the custodian of our culture and traditions that our nation always rejoiced.  “Pakistan is going through a critical phase having challenges to face and now it is their responsibility to develop our country and carry nation forward into new era of development and prosperity,” he said while addressing as chief guest the impressive 19th Convocation-2016 of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) at the Karachi Expo Centre on March 19.  Over 1100 graduates of the university were awarded degrees in engineering disciplines of Computer, Electronics, Civil, Bio-Medical, Telecommunication and Computer Science while top position holders were awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.  The female graduates clinched most of the top three position with Sadia Ghani Mal...