390 graduates get degrees at 7th ICU convocation

PESHAWAR: A total of 390 graduates were awarded degrees with gold medals to 30 of them for outstanding performance at the seventh convocation of the historic Islamia College University Peshawar, on Wednesday.

Governor Shah Farman, who is also chancellor of the public sector universities, was the chief guest on the occasion.

The graduates who received the degrees included, seven PhDs, 33 MPhil and 350 bachelors and master’s.

Some nine PhD supervisors were also awarded gold medals.

Apart from the governor, the ceremony was addressed by Acting Vice-Chancellor Dr Naushad Khan and Registrar Dr Tauqeer Alam.

The governor said he was a graduate of the historic Islamia College where he received more training than education. He said he wanted to go to medical college, but became a law graduate.

He said it was a fact that the responsibilities of teachers have increased in the present age. But they should focus equal attention on the character building of the students alongside their studies.

The governor termed character building as an integral part of education and said that students consider teachers as their role model and they learn more from teachers than books. He urged the heads of educational institutions to promote the Urdu language.