QUETTA: The Vice Chancellor (VC), University of Turbat (UoT), Prof. Dr. Jan Muhammad has said that his administration was committed to pay more attention towards faculty development activities in order to enhance the knowledge, skills and abilities of the newly inducted faculty members of the university.
He expressed these views on Friday while presiding over the closing ceremony of a 4-day training workshop on capacity building of newly inducted faculty members of the university.
The workshop was organized by the directorate of Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) University of Turbat at video conference room. The Vice Chancellor graced the opening and closing sessions of the workshop as chief guest.
Prof. Dr. Abdul Saboor Baloch, Dean, faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Prof. Dr. Gul Hassan, Dean, Faculty of Legal Education, Dr. Wasim Barkat, Dean, Faculty of Economics, Commerce and Business Administration, Dr. Adeel Ahmed, Dean Academics, Registrar Ganguzar Baloch, Dr. Ghulam Jan, Director ORIC, Rehmatullah, Director Procurement, Shahbeek Syed, Director Finance, Ijaz Ahmed, Director Public Relations, Head of various academic and administrative departments and faculty members were also present on the occasion.
The Vice Chancellor expressed his expectation from the faculty members for taking over their responsibility of teaching and research and bringing this university to the pinnacle of its success. VC appreciated the remarkable efforts of the whole team of QEC and trainers for conducting capacity building sessions to uplift the academic delivery at UoT by applying modern teaching methods.
Besides understand their role as teachers in view of contemporary requirements of the time, VC also emphasized on participants to involve themselves in the activities of professional development for ensuring quality education at the university. .
Dr. Jan Muhammad also advised deans, registrar, directors and heads of other sections to arrange learning sessions about university governance system including policies, regulations, service rules and working practices of their relevant sections.
Highlighting the objectives and achievements of the training workshop, Dr. Riaz Ahmed, Director QEC thanked Vice Chancellor, Deans, Registrar, Directors, HoDs, trainers and participants for their support in conducting this learning activity successfully.
He said that qualified resource persons like Dr. Muhammad Mushtaq, Assistant Professor, Commerce Department, Chakar Hyder, PSO to Vice Chancellor and Qamber Ali, Lecturer Management Sciences Department were engaged in the workshop.
He appraised Vice Chancellor for establishing different sections of the university which are responsible for enhancing the quality standards of education and research works at UoT.
At the end of the session the Vice Chancellor awarded certificates to the all trainers and trainees.