Karachi: The search committee established for the appointment of the permanent vice-chancellor in the Federal Urdu University has removed the condition of being a “professor” for the candidates for the said position and in the advertisement published two days later, “Candidate for Professor on HEC” All the conditions of will be imposed” will not be included.
It should be noted that under HEC rules, 15 years of teaching experience and publication of 5 research papers in the last 5 years are mandatory for a professor. Two are freed from the aforementioned technical conditions.
Now candidates can also apply for the post of Vice-Chancellor who have been acting professors or associate professors or are outside the teaching category, however the search committee has required 15 research papers and 20 years of teaching/administrative experience for the candidate. Overall experience requirement is included but teaching experience requirement is not imposed separately.
The age limit of the candidate has been set at 65 years for which a PhD is mandatory, these decisions have been taken in the recent meeting of the search committee held under the convenorship of HEC Chairman Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed.
A member who participated in the meeting told “Express” that there was a lot of discussion in the meeting that the requirement of PhD and professorship should be abolished for the candidate, but most of the members are not ready to abolish the requirement of PhD. happened
He further said that a senior member insisted that the university needs an administrator and not a researcher, so the condition of professor should be removed and on the insistence of the said member, this condition was removed.
Apart from this, an informal discussion was also held in the meeting regarding the transfer of the principal seat (Vice-Chancellor and other key administrative offices) of Urdu University from Karachi to Islamabad. See you later.
On a question from “Express”, Chairman HEC said that the principal seat is written in Islamabad in the University Act, so it should be there. The vice-chancellor office of the university also used to be in Lahore earlier, but it was later shifted to Islamabad, so why can’t it be in Urdu University?
It should be noted that this meeting of the search committee was held in the regional office of HEC in which Prof. Dr. AQ Mughal, Shahid Shafiq, Prof. Dr. Sarosh Hashmat Lodhi, Dr. Syed Akhlaq Hussain and Sheikh Kashif Rifat participated.
According to the decision made in the meeting, the search committee will complete its work in 6 weeks so that a permanent Sheikh-ul-Jamia can be appointed in the Federal Urdu University as soon as possible.
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