Salam,
Good news here. A brilliant College becomes University. I hope it maintains its high standards.
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King Edward Medical College becomes university
Former Principal of KEMC Prof Dr Mumtaz Hasan may be named vice chancellor
By Amer Malik
THE Punjab governor, in exercise of powers conferred upon him under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Act of 2005, ordered the establishment of the King Edward Medical University, Lahore by reconstituting the King Edward Medical College, Lahore, according to a notification by the Punjab Health Department.
Consequent upon the order, published under sub-section (1), the post of the Principal, King Edward Medical College, Lahore, shall cease to exist, and all properties, rights and interests of whatever kind, used, enjoyed, possessed, owned or vested in or held in trust by or for the King Edward Medical College, Lahore, and all liabilities legally subsisting against it shall stand transferred to the University.
The Punjab Health Department, in a briefing to the Punjab government on Monday (tomorrow), shall propose that former Principal King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Prof Dr Mumtaz Hasan, may be given charge as Vice Chancellor of King Edward Medical University, Lahore, as interim arrangement till the notification of Vice Chancellor of the University on permanent basis.
The allied hospitals including Mayo Hospital, Lady Wellington Hospital, Lady Aitchison Hospital, shall directly operate under the control of the Punjab Health Department.
When contacted, Punjab Health Minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed said that the Punjab Health Department, as advised by the Vice Chancellors Search Committee, would advertise the post of Vice Chancellor of King Edward Medical University, Lahore, and fulfil all other legal requirements to fill the post on a permanent basis.
However, he said, it needed an amendment to King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Act of 2005, and it would, thereafter, allow eligible candidates, not only from the Punjab, from all over Pakistan and abroad to apply for the post. He said that the Punjab Health Department would take the matter of amendment in the Punjab cabinet for seeking the approval of the Punjab Assembly. Presently, he said, the Act allowed eligible candidates, only from the Punjab, to apply for the post of the Vice Chancellor of King Edward Medical University, Lahore.
To a question, he responded that the Health Department had, so far, not proposed any name for the post. "
KEMU, Lahore, now onwards, will only be in charge of teaching components of allied hospital including Mayo Hospital, Lady Wellington Hospital and Lady Aitchison Hospital while medical superintendents of respective hospitals would be in charge of administrative affairs of the hospitals," he added.
Meanwhile, under the King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Act of 2005, the University shall consist of the Chancellor, the Pro-Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor, the Pro-Vice Chancellor and members of the Senate, the Syndicate, the Academic Council and all other authorities.
The University shall be a body corporate and shall have a perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued by the name.
The University shall be competent to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, and may lease, sell or otherwise alienate any movable and immovable property which vests in or has been acquired by it.
The University shall perform various functions that include to provide for instruction in such teaching subjects, disciplines or branches of learning at graduate or postgraduate level as it may deem fit, and to make provision for research and the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in such a manner as it may determine. It shall prescribe or identify courses of studies to be conducted by it and the colleges.
The University shall hold examinations and to award and confer degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions to and on persons who have been admitted to and have passed its examinations. It shall confer honorary degrees or other distinctions on persons approved there for.
It shall provide for persons having received education/training in other institutions, such instructions as it may determine, and to award degrees, diplomas or certificates to such persons. It shall confer degrees on persons who have carried on independent research under certain conditions. It shall inspect constituent colleges, institutes and institutions.
For the purpose of admission to the University, it shall recognise the examination passed and the periods of study spent by students at other universities and places of learning as equivalent to such examinations as periods of study in the University, and to withdraw such recognition in appropriate cases after giving a notice to the student concerned.
It shall coordinate with other universities and public authorities in such manner and for such purposes as it may determine.
The University shall create posts of Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and Demonstrators and other posts for research, publication, extension, administration and other related purposes and to appoint persons thereto. It shall confer or award fellowships, scholarships, bursaries, medals and prizes as may be prescribed.
The University shall establish teaching departments, schools, colleges, faculties, institutes, museums and centres of excellence including area study centre and other centres of learning for the development of teaching and research and to make such arrangements for their maintenance, management and administration as may be prescribed. It shall arrange, administer and maintain hostels for students of the University and the colleges.
The University shall promote and organise recreational and extra-curricular activities for physical and mental growth, health and fitness of the students. It shall enforce and maintain discipline amongst the students of the University, institutions and the colleges.
Peace.