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PU to hold FPGMI exams from 7th

By Our Staff Reporter 2015-08-05
LAHORE: The Punjab University has announced conducting MD/MS exams of the Federal Postgraduate Medical Institute after its legal experts declared that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council has not barred the varsity from holding the exams.

Earlier, the PU had postponed the exams scheduled to be held on July 27 when the PMDC issued a notification announcing that nonmedical varsities would not be allowed to hold exams of the medical colleges.

The notification created confusion when the PU found that there was no mention of postgraduate medical institutions. It later referred the case to the legal experts of the university.

According to the revised schedule issued by the PU, the MD/MS exams of the FPGMI will be conducted on August 7. Punjab University Controller of Examinations Shahid Munir confirmed the development.

Some 40 students of the FPGMI had applied to appear in the exams. Also, scores of young doctors under the platform of Young Doctors Association of Punjab lodged protest at the Shaikh Zayed Hospital for the affiliation of the FPGMI with the King Edward Medical University. They warned that the agitation may be intensified if their demand was not met in seven days.

They also demanded the dissolution of a committee of senior doctors formed to decide the fate of affiliation of the institute alleging that the committee giving favour to the Punjab University instead the KEMU.PEF: Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) hopes to achieve the target of enrolling most of the 2.8 million out-of-school and dropout children by 2018 under the `Parho Punjab, Barho Punjab` initiative of the provincial government.

This was stated by PEF chairman Engineer Qamarul Islam Raja during a meeting with a World Bank delegation, headed by task team leader Ms Scherezad Latif, at his office on Tuesday.

Raja said improving access to education and provision of quality education to the needy communities had been the two important achievements of PEF, which is the best example of publicprivate partnership as it strengthened low-cost private schools through free education models.

The foundation also encouraged marginalised people tosend theirchildren to its partner schools, besides helping the low-cost institutes to improve their quality, he said.

Special Secretary (Schools) Ahmad Ali Kamboh spoke about role of school councils, authorised to take steps for improving educationalinstitutes.

PEF-sponsored initiatives have also improved the ratio of girls education in disfranchised segments because of their easy access.

PEF Managing Director Dr Aneela Salman said the foundation, working in all the 36 districts through a network of 5,000 partner schools, has helped the private sector to promote free schooling in remote and farflung areas.

Earlier, WB Consultant Ms Varda Malik gave presentation on `scoping studypublic private partnership in school education`