84 laptops distributed among AIOU students

Islamabad

As many as 84 laptops under the Prime Minister’s scheme Phase-II were distributed among the students of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) at a ceremony held here on Tuesday.

The ceremony was presided over by the Chairman Higher Educational Commission (HEC) Prof. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, who elaborated on the occasion the government’s youth welfare schemes, being implemented through the Commission.

AIOU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Shahid Siddiqui thanked the government and the HEC for including the AIOU’s students in the PM’S scheme. It was a great encouragement to those, who are engaged in upgrading their academic profile through distance learning system.

The total number of laptops given to the AIOU under the scheme phase-II is 940 that were being handed over to the M.Phil and PhD students at their respective regional offices. The excited male and female students received the latest laptop machines with specifications enabling them to be both as a computer and as well as a notepad. In addition, an internet device was also the part of the package.

Addressing faculty and students, Dr Mukhtar Ahmed appreciated the AIOU for consistent efforts upgrading its academic output.

The enrollment of students in M.Phil and PhD programmes got hundred time increase with the introduction of fee-reimbursement and other such schemes. The HEC, he added has been doing its best for efficiently implementing the schemes, assigned to it by the government.

Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed said in all 2 lakh laptops will be distributed among the students in phase-2.

Dr. Shahid Siddiqui in vote of thanks lauded the HEC’s pro-Universities’ role in providing necessary funding for carrying out research-oriented task. In this connection, the role of chairman HEC and his team is highly commendable, he added. Earlier, at the outset of the function, the participants strongly condemned the terrorists’ attack at Police training colleges in Quetta that took many precious lives. They also offered ‘fateha’ for the departed souls.

CIE: Director of Assessment, Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) Roderic Gillespie visited Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE), on Tuesday and delivered a lecture on Assessment and Examinations to the participants of workshop organised by FBISE, says a press release.

The participants of the workshop were FBISE master trainers, paper setters and markers in the subject of English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics along with senior educationists and officers of the board.

The lecture delicately focused on the scope of setting of various syllabi, their logical progression, question paper setting techniques and parameters, preparation of marking scheme, reliable marking and valid conversion of marks into grades. Dr. Ikram Ali Malik, chairman briefed about the recent initiatives undertaken by the FBISE for qualitative improvement of examination system with major focus on capacity building of all the stakeholders. Further, shortcomings in the existing system were also highlighted along with proposed road-map to rectify the same in near future. Roderic Gillespie and Uzma Yousaf, country manager of CIE assured full support for improvement in examination system of the FBISE.