The Karachi University Teachers Forum expressed its deep sorrow over the killing of Usman Institute of Technology Director Engineer Dr Zahir Ali Syed, who was shot dead on Friday over resistance.
The University of Karachi in collaboration with the Sindh health department has established a Covid-19 vaccination centre at the CBSCR Research Institute of the varsity.The spokesman for the Sindh.
On April 8 this year, K-Electric Chief Executive Officer Monis Alvi held a grand press conference at his office where he conveniently announced how the company was confident about achieving a power.
Power cuts affecting teaching, office work at KU
Karachi
May 28, 2021
Unannounced power outages every day from six to eight hours have badly disrupted online classes and on-campus essential office work at Karachi University.
According to the Karachi University Teachers Society (KUTS), the varsity daily faces power outages of 10 to 12 hours. The power cuts have become a routine due to which chemicals of laboratories and other equipment worth millions are also affected.
The teachers and students are forced to use offline resources for learning and teaching. If the situation remains the same, it would be difficult for faculty members to complete the courses before the semester exams, KUTS, adding that though Karachi University was exempted from loadshedding by K-Electric due to it being an educational and research institution, the varsity was still experiencing the worst power cuts.
Dead journal revived in KU to publish backdated papers for ‘promotions through unfair means’
Karachi
April 19, 2021
It is a matter of common sense to believe that any article cannot cite works that came into existence after its date of publication. However, this logic has been defied by the research journal of the University of Karachi’s (KU) history department as a large number of its issues, which are also available online, contain research papers that cite news stories, internet articles and other papers that had not existed when those issues were produced.
Clearly, those biannual issues of the Journal of History and Social Science (JHSS) were published in some dates much later than the six-month period written on them. According to some faculty members of the KU, the purpose of backdating around a dozen issues of the journal was to help promote some teachers through unfair means.