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KARACHI: The Sindh Information Technology Advisor, Noman Saigal on Thursday said all computer training centres and IT institutions in the province would soon be registered with the Sindh IT Department.

Speaking to a delegation of students at his office, the minister said a summary of the project has been sent to the Sindh Chief Minister for approval.

He said after its approval, work for registration of computer training and IT institutes in the province would be started.

Noman Saigal said the strategy regarding registration of IT institutes would be chalked out in the meeting of the IT Board, which is scheduled for next week. Later, all qualified IT institutes would be provided legal protection by registering them with the IT department. He assured that the registration process would be transparent; adding that only those training institutes meeting the required criteria would be registered.

KARACHI: The Sindh Education Department has announced that no examination for class IX would be held this year in the province.

A press release issued by the Sindh Education Department said it was decided in the Inter-Provincial Education Ministers’ Meeting in 2005, that from 2006 all the provinces would shift to composite examination system at matriculation level as a part of ‘Education Sector Reforms Package’. It said under this system, the students are to be examined at the end of their two-year studies i.e. after class ten.

This was approved by the President of Pakistan as part of Education Sector Reforms Programme. All provinces and the federal government agreed that there would be no examination of class IX in 2006 and students shall appear in composite examination in 2007.

The press release further stated that as a result of this policy there was no class IX examination in 2006 in Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan, adding however, Sindh sought a waiver for one year in the implementation of this new system from the President, which was graciously granted.

As this waiver was granted by the President just for one year, Sindh has to adopt the composite examination system at matriculation level from this year, which means that there would be no examination of IX class this year and students of matric shall be examined next year. Any change in the composite examination system lies with the President, the press release concluded.

KARACHI: Teaching at nine departments of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology could not be initiated on Thursday due to the institution’s new admission policy.

Sources said that the varsity was without a vice-chancellor for the past nine months and the varsity affairs were being run in an unorganised manner. They said that a new admission policy was devised by chairman of the admission committee, dean of Science faculty, also the acting vice-chancellor.

Under the new policy, students having cleared their intermediate/degree exams more than two years back are not eligible. Only one list has been displayed so far after the submission of 1,800 admission forms.

Second and third list may not be displayed before a fresh review of the applications and, as such, many seats are lying vacant in various departments though the admission seekers are being made to wait for a decision on their applications. The policy also prohibits commencement of the session in a department having less than 15 admissions.

Sources said that due to defective admission policy, teaching at Sindhi, Social Work, Psychology, Arabic, Urdu, General History, Political Science and Islamic History had not begun as yet.

KARACHI: The enrolment section of the University of Karachi on Thursday notified that enrolment forms and fees of MBBS and BDS would be accepted without late fee from February 7 to 21.

According to a KU notification issued here, enrolment forms with a fee of Rs700 (for public sector) and Rs4,000 (for private sector) could be submitted till February 21. Forms with late fee of Rs1,000 would be accepted till February 28.

Pharm-D: The University of Karachi also notified that enrolment forms and fee for (Pharm-D) Jinnah Medical and Dental College for the year 2007 would be accepted from February 10 to 24.

The enrolment forms with normal fee of Rs4,000 would be accepted till February 24. Forms with late fee of Rs1,000 would be accepted till February 28.—PPI

The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) has announced the results of MSc (Mathematical Sciences) second batch of the first semester and first batch of the second semester (repeaters) 2006, M.Phil first batch (Evening) and LLM second year 2005 annual examinations. The pass percentages for these examinations remained 42.8 and 57.14 respectively.