SSGC got to be a university: Zaidi

Karachi Commissioner, Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi would constitute a think- tank to upgrade, Sir Syed Girls College for Women Nazimabad into a university.
Speaking at a ceremony arranged at Sir Syed Girls College, Zaidi said that a institution from which on average 7000 students graduate per annum, deserved to be granted the status of a university. He said that “I would do my utmost to achieve this target.” Zaidi said that he would constitute a committee comprising of senior educationists, learnt elites and academic staff of the college to draft recommendations for the purpose. Sir Syed Girls College for Women Principal of Prof Swaleha Islam said that Sir Syed Girls College for Women was the largest public sector academic institute of the country from which thousands of girls graduate in computer sciences, commerce, humanities, pre-engineering and pre-medicine every year. She said that she hoped that the college would be sanctioned to conduct and award degrees in masters, MPhil and PHD programmes. She said that “education in these disciplines is imparted upto graduation level while arrangements are already underway to offer post graduate level courses”. Swaleha told that a proposal for the same was pending for approval since 2005, but no progress had been made due to red tapes so dear to the civil administrators.
The ceremony was concluded with a session on “Allama Iqbal’s Concept of National Unity,” and Arshad Sabri, Prof Farhat Azeem Prof Shazia Naz, Prof Fauzia Siddiqui, Mariam Jafferi and Siraj uddin Siraj addressed the audience.
Sir Syed Girls College for Women was founded 58 years ago, by Syed Altaf Barelvi who was also the founder of All Pakistan Education Conference.
SSUET’s directory of female alumni: Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET), Karachi, became the first university of the country that compiled a directory of its women alumni.
The directory was compiled by the university’s Girls Affairs Committee and records of all female students who graduated since 1998 would be in the document. The first batch of female students of SSUET passed out in 1998.