Our Correspondent
Sargodha
More than 83,683 students including 53,000 girl walked away with degrees at 7th Convocation of Sargodha University (SU), held here on Thursday. Minister for Higher Education Punjab and Pro-Chancellor Raja Yassir Humayun Sarfaraz was the chief guest who presided over the ceremony along with the Vice Chancellor Dr Ishtiaq Ahmad. During the 2nd convocation of the year 2019, the university conferred degrees among total 83,683 students and 64 per cent of total were girls.
The degrees conferred include, 30 PhD, 1,343 MS/MPhil, 37,137 MA/MSc, 14,910 BS/BBA and 30,263 BA/BSc degrees, awarded to the students from disciplines of Medical and Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Agriculture, Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. 574 students with distinctions were honoured with medals. The ceremony was initiated in a ritualistic manner, with the entrance of the academic procession comprising the Pro-Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor and Deans of the seven faculties at the convocation venue.
Addressing the ceremony, Raja Yassir Humayun Sarfaraz said that higher education has unrivaled power to play role in developing human resources and their contribution to the economic progress of a nation. Providing quality education, with compatible skills required by the international market, is the top most priority of the government, he added. The Pro-Chancellor also announced to establish universities in districts Bhakkar and Khushab.
He highlighted initiatives and major reforms taken by the government in higher education sector including the launch of Associate Degree Program to promote skills-based undergraduate education through community colleges, an internationally sponsored training program for engineers for overseas employment and a microchip manufacturing technology venture with the help of China.
