Dr Sabiha Mansoor on Thursday assumed charge as Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) vice-chancellor (VC). She was warmly received at the campus by Acting VC Dr Farhat Saleemi, Registrar Dr Hamala Khalid, Dean of Science Dr KJ Cheema, Dean of Social Sciences Riffat Saqlain and others.
Dr Sabiha holds a PhD in Education and a master’s in TEFL from Reading University, UK and a master’s in English Literature from the Punjab University (PU). She has been a Woodrow Wilson and British Council scholar. Dr Sabiha has a wide experience of teaching English and helped set up various postgraduate programmes in teacher education at the Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Agha Khan University and Kinnaird College for Women.
She is also a member of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) National Committee on English and Asia TEFL Executive Council. Dr Sabiha has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences and as guest speaker at international universities. She is a reviewer of books and has published various articles in reputed journals. Dr Sabiha is author of several books, including Language Planning in Higher Education: A Case Study of Pakistan (OUP 2005), Language Planning, Policy, and Practice: A South Asian Perspective (OUP 2004), and Punjabi, Urdu, English in Pakistan (Vanguard 1993).