AIOU establishes Computer Laboratories in Regional Offices
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is establishing Computer Laboratories in its Regional Offices throughout the Country not only to achieve digitalization objective fully but also to provide technical support to those students who lack these facilities so that they can work in these laboratories to complete their academic tasks.
The University has also expedited efforts to establish its Television Channel which will be purely educational and non-commercial in nature. The University has already sought its approval from a competent authority.
The Television Channel will be highly effective in providing educational access to hundreds and thousands of AIOU students who are residing in distant geographical regions of the country which lack internet facilities.
The Vice Chancellor AIOU Professor Dr. Zia Ul-Qayyum in exercise of his powers appointed Bibi Yasmin as the Acting Registrar along with all of its administrative and financial powers.
Vice-chancellors feel unheard by HE commission
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan did not take all stakeholders, especially vice-chancellors of universities, on board while making policies regarding higher education during the last two or three years, according to speakers at the consultative meeting of vice-chancellors of Pakistan on “Emerging Trends and Challenges of Higher Education”, reports
The News International.
The meeting was jointly arranged by Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and Quaid-i-Azam University at the main campus of AIOU. Vice-chancellors across the country participated in the meeting physically as well as online.
The meeting was arranged to discuss and evaluate the undergraduate and graduate policies formed by HEC in the recent past, and issues in higher education.
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‘HEC ignores VCs in higher education policy making’
Islamabad
April 27, 2021
Islamabad : The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) did not take all stakeholders, especially vice chancellors of universities, on board while making policies regarding higher education during the last two or three years, remarked speakers at the consultative meeting of Vice Chancellors of Pakistan on ‘Emerging Trends and Challenges of Higher Education.’
The meeting was jointly arranged by Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and Quaid-i-Azam University at the main campus of AIOU. Vice Chancellors across the country participated in the meeting physically as well as online. VC, AIOU, Prof. Dr. Zia Ul-Qayyum while delivering a welcome address, thanked all the worthy guests to gather for a noble cause and highlighted the objectives of the meeting.