LAHORE, Jan 20: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has sent his advice to
the governor to appoint vice chancellors of two agriculture
universities, recommending the candidates who had won top positions in
the three-candidate panels sent by the Punjab government’s Search
Committee.
Sources told Dawn that the chief minister had recommended University of
Agriculture, Faisalabad, (UAF) VC Prof Dr Iqrar A. Khan for another term
of four years.
For Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, sources said, the chief
minister had recommended Prof Dr Rai Niaz Ahmad for his appointment as
VC. Prof Ahmad is currently serving as Dean Faculty of Agricultural
Engineering and Technology, UAF.
Prof Iqrar A. Khan, in his first tenure, had guided the university to
achieve new heights of excellence. In October last year, the UAF had
surfaced among top 300 universities of the world on the basis of the
Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities
conducted by the National Taiwan University Ranking.
The top 300 universities’ ranking published by the Higher Education
Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) had rated the
UAF at 158th position with 14.96 quality points in the category of
Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, followed by numerous famous
universities of the world including the University of Oxford (with 14.88
points).
In February last year, the UAF had won the Islamic Development Bank
award for science and technology in the category of “institutions having
achieved outstanding contribution to a given discipline.”
The vice chancellor had received award worth US $100,000, a trophy
and a certificate on the basis of varsity’s research publications,
citation, foreign funding and research funding, exchange programmes,
quality assurance criteria, PhD faculty ratio and faculty-student ratio.
The university had 487 impact factor publications that had over 3,000
citations.
The chief minister’s advice for the appointment of the University of
Health Sciences and the King Edward Medical University VCs was still
awaited, they said. — MANSOOR MALIK.Dawn.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
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