Shortage of license in medical colleges
Islamabad, July 04: The department shortage has plagued medical colleges encircling the country.
In total, 128 rule and private medical colleges, recognised ~ dint of. the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), are functioning in the political division. Under the PMDC rules, every therapeutic college is bound to have a professor, each associate professor, two assistant professors of every specialty and other teaching staff, including a older registrar, a senior demonstrator, senior lecturers, lecturers and demonstrators. However, the statistics compiled ~ means of the PMDC lately reveal a strait-laced shortage of medical faculty in the region.
In total, the countrywide medical colleges obtain 1,197 professors, 651 associate professors, 3,855 assistant professors, 504 senior registrars, 38 senior demonstrators, 59 more advanced lecturers and 4,996 other members of the education staff though the required strength is c~ing 17,000.
According to the fall of the statistics, there are 73 professors of heap of skin and bones against the required strength of 128; 52 of science of life against 128; 36 of biochemistry off 128; 39 of community medicine over ~ 68; 53 of pharmacology against 68, and 18 of disputative medicine against 68.
Likewise, the therapeutical colleges have 37 associate professors of skeleton against the need of 128; 31 keep company professors of physiology against 128; 31 coadjutor professors of biochemistry against 128; 32 companion professors of community medicine against 68; 20 join professors of pharmacology against 68, and 19 bring into close relation professors of forensic medicine against 68.
As as antidote to assistant professors, their current and required fortitude at medical colleges is 145 of structural science against 258; 152 of physiology in contact with 258; 88 of biochemistry against 258; 128 of common medicine against 136; 74 of pharmacology opposed to 136, and 58 of forensic remedy against 136.
Like students, the of the healing art colleges are bound by the rules to acquire their faculty, too, registered with PMDC. However, greatest number of them are understood to take not done so.
When contacted, a PMDC functionary confirmed the acute faculty shortage in the rural’s medical colleges. He said that the PMDC had recently written to the administrations of peculiar and government medical colleges to give notice PMDC of their faculty strength and persuade all their teaching staff registered by it without delay. He said that the colleges lapse to follow these instructions would have existence dealt with strictly.
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HEC plans to value up sub-offices
Islamabad: In proper state to facilitate young people and total public from remote and far-flung areas of southern Punjab, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) plans to fix its sub-office in Bahawalpur. The sub-service will be inaugurated this month.В
Subsequently, the HEC desire establish sub-offices in Sukkur, Muzaffarabad and Gilgit to cater to the youth of upper Sindh, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Through these offices, the HEC would lead youth of far-flung areas hind part before various HEC programmes and initiatives, scholarships and end liaison with higher education institutions of the areas would besides be established.
HEC Chairman Dr. Javaid R. Laghari afore~ the HEC is focusing on augment of access to higher education targeting especially stripling belonging to remote, under-developed and farther-flung areas of country.
“The household of four new outreach offices would not sole guide and encourage the youth of these areas to advantage various HEC programmes and but in addition be helpful in networking with limited universities and colleges. The HEC sub-service at Bahawalpur would cater the three populated divisions of Southern Punjab including Bahawalpur, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan.
The HEC has paid extraordinary attention towards increasing access to higher nurture in remote and far-flung areas of the rural parts . Within last few years, out of whole 55 new university campuses, 31 receive been established in rural areas from one extremity to the other of Pakistan. A number of scholarships and other programmes bear been launched aiming at equitable approach to higher education throughout the rude. The commission is also implementing PM’s Tuition Fee Payment Scheme during students of Balochistan, Gilgit/Baltistan and Fata which has been recently extended by the federal government to northern Sindh and southerly Punjab.
Four regional centres of HEC at altogether four provincial headquarters are already coordinating and economical different academic activities and events like meetings, workshops, seminars, trainings, human instrumentality development and quality assurance programmes in collaboration with different divisions of HEC as well considered in the state of regional institutes of higher learning. The news
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AIOU sacks 300 tutors through ‘irrelevant’ experience
Lahore: The Allama Iqbal Open University Lahore part administration has terminated services of more 300 tutors for not fulfilling the criteria and inducted unaccustomed ones with relevant qualification and continued.
Speaking at a news conference up~ Wednesday, AIOU Lahore Director Rasul Bakhsh Behram said the university was celebrating 2013 for the re~on that ‘Quality Education Year’. He said the universal school was offering a second chance to mob who had to discontinue their unvarying education for certain reasons to prepare education from matriculation to PhD in in a circle 150 programmes.
In these programmes, he said, they were offering some 1,500 courses. He said students were being admitted to mutable programmes twice a year. During head admissions, he said, the university had completed its mark and provided free books to students at their doorstep.
Behram uttered he had ensured this year that 3,500 tutors were appointed well in time to do a good turn students. He said the university had also developed a mechanism to monitor tutorials.
He reported the university was increasing enrolment and in Lahore tract alone some 200 sales points had been established to put up to sale their prospectus and admission forms to bring into proximity more and more students for loss of eminence admissions. He said the university would likewise be launching a two-year mate degree programme offering specialisation in diversified disciplines, including tourism management, hotel superintendence, hospital management, accounts and finance.
The manager said the university had also imparted advice technology training to its tutors and asked them to submit students’ results online. Behram uttered a new building costing Rs70 the great body of the people at the varsity’s regional campus was well-nigh complete. Dawn
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AIOU, Iranian varsities to ~ out programmes for women education
Islamabad: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Vice Chancellor Prof Nazir Ahmed Sangi on Wednesday showed keen interest in launching scholastic programmes for promoting women education and clan studies in the country through a concerted venture of AIOU and five-swollen Iranian universities.
Iran’s Women Section World Linkage Organisations category Dr Khanum Siddiqa Hijazi met with the AIOU’s vice chancellor.
Iran’s Cultural Consul Dr Taqqi Siddique, AIOU’s Faculty of Social Sciences Dean Prof Rashid A Naeem, Faculty of Gender and Women Studies grand Dr Riffat Haque, Abdul Basit Mujahid and Abdul Wadood were attentive on the occasion.
Both teams discussed ways and instrument to prepare and launch the of the college programmes for the promotion of women nurture.
It was said that the proposed agreement between AIOU and five-big Iranian universities would be signed before the holy month of Ramzan. The AIOU depravity chancellor said that Model Study Centres and fresh campuses of the university are heart established in remote areas.
The university has also launched a plan of reveal-schooling system to provide middle-plain educational facilities to drop-out women students.
Dr Khanum Siddiqa Hijazi appreciated the honest-schooling system of AIOU and related that this project would increase the literacy degree at a large scale.
Dr Taqqi Siddique disclosed that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad would make over a special lecture on ‘Architecture Design’ at AIOU for the period of his upcoming visit to Pakistan.
On the occasion, Dr Riffat Haque briefed the Iranian team with regard to the academic programmes, initiatives, achievements and planning of the Gender and Women Studies Department as far as concerns the empowerment of women. Daily state of things
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