MoU on Pak-China joint PhD

LAHORE: Punjab University and China’s Northeastern University (NEU) on Monday signed an MoU for launching joint doctoral programme.

According to the MoU, the joint training programme would be launched in PhD in History and both parties would jointly recruit the qualified postgraduate students from China. In the four-year programme, the students would spend first year in Punjab University to complete the basic course and they would spend next three years to do research in NEU, which is ranked among top 40 universities out of 500 universities in China.

PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Dean Faculty of Arts Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Chawla, Mr Tan Biyou, Director NEU Institute of Manchus Study of China, Director External Linkages Dr Fauzia Hadi Ali and others were present at the MoU signing ceremony.

Addressing the ceremony, Dr Zakria Zakar said Pakistan and China were time tested friends and added the academic institutions of both countries must enhance academic collaboration because of increasing bilateral relations between China and Pakistan. He said CPEC would bring prosperity for Pakistan and we must prepare ourselves to get benefit from the mega project.

grace marks: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) Monday ruled out any possibility of awarding grace marks to failed MBBS students.

According to a press release, a spokesman for UHS said in the light of Supreme Court’s verdict, no grace marks could be awarded to the students who had failed the second professional MBBS examination. The protest of students was not relevant, he said.

He said, “The Vice-Chancellor had directed to facilitate the students by waiving-off the rechecking fee. Moreover, a committee had been constituted to review quality of the question papers which would submit its report this week.” The spokesman said the university would not compromise merit. “The students must not waste their time in protesting”, he concluded.