Magazine October 2010 - Higher Education Commission

Commission Events
Workshop on
Research Techniques
in Social Sciences
A three-day workshop on Effective Research Techniques in
Social Sciences was recently held at HEC Regional Centre,
Karachi. Thirty faculty members representing different
universities/institutions of Sindh attended the workshop.
The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Ishrat Hussain,
Director, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi.
He said that research in the area of Social Sciences was
previously neglected. He highlighted the need for research in
Social Sciences, and how it creates impact on the socioeconomic
development of the country.
On the first day, Dr. Syed Jaffar Ahmed, Department of
Pakistan Studies, University of Karachi discussed in detail the
Proforma developed by HEC for research grant in Social
Science.
On the second day, Dr. Fatah Muhammad Burfat, Department
of Sociology, University of Karachi highlighted the research
methodologies and its impact on country's development.
On third day, Dr. Moonis Ahmar, Department of International
Relations, University of Karachi shared his experience related
to effective research techniques and discussed its
importance.
Dr. Nasiruddin Khan, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Karachi
was chief guest in the concluding ceremony. He appreciated
HEC Regional Centre for conducting the workshop on a very
important topic.
Mr. Fida Hussian, Regional Director, HEC explained the
objectives of the workshop and gave details of certain
initiatives of the Higher Education Commission in the area of
research and development.
ELTR
Launches
Indigenous
Fellowships
under Phase-II
The English Language Teaching Reform
(ELTR), under its Phase-II, has launched
Long-Term Indigenous Fellowships
Programme in four universities for the
faculty of public sector colleges/
universities.
This is the only project of HEC through
which the college sector has also
b e n e f i t t e d t h r o u g h i t s faculty
development programme. So far, 125
faculty members of public sector colleges
and universities have benefitted from such
long-term fellowships under ELTR (Phase-
I). The Project will award 150 long-term
fellowships under Phase-II.
The fellowships are being offered in MPhil
(TESL) at Beaconhouse National
University, Lahore, MA (ELT and
Linguistics) at University of the Punjab,
Lahore, Advance Diploma (TEFL) at
Forman Christian College University,
Lahore and ADP (TEFL) at Aga Khan
University, Karachi.
Almost 60 fellowships have been awarded
to the universities for 2010-11. The
candidates from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and
Balochistan have been allocated special
seats at University of the Punjab, because
no university from these provinces
submitted a proposal for long-term
fellowships.
Those fulltime/permanent faculty
members of public sector colleges and
universities are eligible, who are teaching
English at graduate and post graduate
level, are under 50 years of age, and have
a minimum of 16-year education, besides
at least one year experience of teaching
English as a subject.
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