MPhil and PhD programmes are to
be introduced this year by the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Chair (SBBC) at the
University of Sindh.
This was decided at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto Chair which took place at the regional office of the Higher Education
Commission here, a spokesperson for the education department said on Sunday.
The board of the SBBC also approved the budget for the year 2012 and the funds
for an international seminar on Benazir Bhutto, he said. The board also decided
that an advert inviting applications for the post of a full-time director of the
chair would again be placed in the newspapers, the spokesperson said.
The Speaker of Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, and the Vice Chancellor of
Sindh University, Dr Nazir Ahmed Mughal, jointly presided the meeting which was
also attended by provincial education minister, Pir Mazharul Haq, adviser to the
prime minister, Begum Shahnaz Wazir Ali, and representatives of the department
of culture.
Responding to a question on suspension of classes at the University of Sindh,
Pir Mazharul Haq, who is also the pro-chancellor of the universities in the
province, said it had been an unhealthy practice that a teachers’ association
had boycotted classes. The minister, however, praised the efforts of the VC of
Sindh University, Dr Nazir Mughal, for striving to bring peace to the campus.