Dragging their feet: Hiring of VCs for KU, DUHS delayed
KARACHI: What is a predestine of vice-chancellors (VCs) of open zone universities after a bequest of a longest portion administrator of Sindh, Dr Ishratul Ebad, who was also chancellor of a universities, finished final week after 14 years?
The appointment of a dual clamp chancellorships of a biggest open zone universities in Karachi — Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) and a University of Karachi (KU) — have been stranded in dilapidation given former petroleum apportion Dr Asim Hussain’s arrest, as he was a convener of a hunt cabinet that assists in a appointment of a VCs.
While a VCs were given special honours by Dr Ebad, a appointments were dragged for as prolonged as a year for DUHS and some-more than 10 months for KU.
KU VC Prof Dr Muhammad Qaiser, whose reign as varsity conduct finished on Feb 9, was given a assign of behaving VC on Feb 9, 2016 and given afterwards has been portion as a conduct of a university.
The routine of appointment of a VC for KU has been ongoing for a final 11 months; an announcement was published in this courtesy on Jan 27. The short-listing, interviews and inventory of a tip 3 possibilities was also finished though a appointment is still in a pipeline, notwithstanding 3 tip possibilities being selected.
The 3 names, that were finalised after interviews conducted by a five-member hunt cabinet headed by Deedar Hussain Shah, have been sent to a arch apportion and a preference is now in his hands.
“We have conducted a interviews and that day a recommendation and outline was sent to a CM,” pronounced member of a hunt cabinet Mazharul Haq Siddiqui.
Short-listed claimant for KU and aspirant for Sindh University’s VC’s post, Prof Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat, pronounced he is wakeful of a brief inventory though has not been strictly sensitive of any preference in that courtesy yet. “I will offer anywhere a supervision will ask me to perform, as we am a supervision employee,” he said.
Karachi University Teacher’s Society boss Dr Shakeel Farooqi pronounced that a supervision of Sindh has combined a large mess, as a hunt cabinet that interviewed a possibilities comprised domestic and irrelevant people. Even afterwards a recommendations by a hunt cabinet were kept in abeyance, he lamented.
“We trust a supervision was in no approach prepared to commence a shortcoming of a universities and vehement and over desirous process makers brought in inadequate amendments in a Sindh Universities Act and now all a universities are profitable a cost during a cost of a stakeholders, who are teachers, students and parents,” he explained, perfectionist a amendments in a Sindh Universities Act be withdrawn.
DUHS’s dilemma
Meanwhile, a matter of a appointment of DUHS’s VC was taken to a law when Prof Dr Masood Hameed Khan’s second reign as VC finished on Sep 15, 2015 and Prof Dr Noshad A Shaikh was allocated VC out of spin by Dr Ebad. Prof Dr Saeed Qureshi, who was during a tip of a list of endorsed VCs by a hunt committee, was not even considered.
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) filed a petition and won a case, nonetheless Dr Khan was allocated behaving VC though he is behaving his duties as a full time VC in a university. PMA filed another petition saying that, according to a laws ruling universities, no claimant can be VC of any university if he has finished his dual terms as VC of any university in a range though Dr Khan is on his third term.
“The justice limited Dr Khan from holding any vital decisions relating to a university and pronounced he should usually act as a behaving VC though he is violating a rules,” pronounced former PMA ubiquitous secretary Mirza Ali Azhar.
PMA ubiquitous secretary Dr Qaiser Sajjad pronounced that a quarrel was and still is for merit. “There is no issue, a justice box can be resolved out of justice and a series one claimant on a list can be allocated as a VC of DUHS,” he suggested, appealing to a CM to take notice of a case.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 15th, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1231054/dragging-feet-hiring-vcs-ku-duhs-delayed/