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Bahria University to set up institute of marine
sciences at Gwadar
KARACHI (March 28 2004): Bahria University has
planned to establish a modern, fully equipped
institute of marine sciences at Gwadar.
Rector, Bahria University, Vice Admiral Fayyazur
Rahman (Retd) stated this while addressing at the
5th convocation ceremony of Bahria Institute of
Management and mputer Sciences (BIMCS), Karachi on
Saturday.
Highlighting the future plans of the university,
he said that beside its expansion plans to reach
the far-flung, underprivileged areas of the
country, the university had also planned to set up
a composite institute of marine sciences at Gwadar
with all essential facilities including
residential facility.
He regretted that the subject was most neglected
one in the country due to which there emerged an
acute shortage of qualified faculty of the subject
and sea-based research.
In this perspective he stressed the need of giving
due significance to the subject and announced the
university's plan to establish marine sciences
institute.
However, he discussed the paucity of available
funds for running such research-based educational
institutes and asked the government to extend
maximum financial support for the establishment of
marine sciences institute.
He described a fear-free learning environment and
taking new initiatives to keep up with changes
taking place in the international universities and
marketplace as the two distinctive features of the
university's educational policies.
Throwing light on initiative taken by the
university recently, he discussed the launching of
executive MBA and Ph.D. in management and computer
sciences programmes, introduction of wireless LAN
in the libraries and other technological
advancements.
Provincial Education Minister, Irfanullah Marwat
appreciated the standard of education being
imparted by the Bahria University and assured the
university for government's full assistance in its
cause of promoting quality education in the
country, specially its plan for the remote areas.
He urged upon the graduating students to acquire
leadership qualities in the professional career so
that they could be relied upon and respected for
their capabilities.
Earlier, Director BIMCS, Captain Ahmed Zaheer (Retd)
described the curriculum taught at the university
as a unique blend of lectures, case studies, group
discussions, research and exposure to business
organisations through internship.
A total of 220 graduating students in business and
computer science discipline were conferred degrees
by the rector of the institute, while the minister
awarded gold and silver medals to the outstanding
students.
Those who secured gold medals included Yaseen
Majeed, Javed Shamshad, Asif Jameel, Syed Mohammad
Ali, Khurrum Khan, and Imran Malik, whereas Sardar
Shah and Uzma Afzal received silver medals.
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