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KARACHI, March 5(Daily Times): Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) conferred degrees on 326 of its students at its fifth convocation held Saturday at a local hotel.

The institution, that has been named the best business school in Asia for five consecutive years by Business Week and the best MBA school for two years by Asia Week, has campuses in Karachi, Larkana and Dubai and has been functioning for 11 years.

The institute conferred 25 BBA degrees, 24 BS and BCS degrees, 178 MBA degrees, 48 MCS degrees and 51 MS degrees.

Dr Javaid Leghari, SZABIST vice president, introduced the institution, which is the only Pakistani institution to be a member of international organisations such as the Commonwealth Institutions Union and the SAARC Educational Institutions Union, New Delhi. "Each year, our students receive prestigious awards such as the Fullbright, Rhodes, Cambridge, Chevening and the World Bank scholarships," he told the audience members, who included the graduates and their parents as well as heads of corporate organisations that had sponsored the event. Leghari also mentioned that the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) had ranked SZABIST in the top three business and information technology schools in Pakistan. He said that the vision of SZABIST was to prepare its students for the challenges that they could face as citizens of the world. "You have been part of an elite institution," he said to the graduates, "and we hope that you address the educational disparities that exist in this country as where a large number of students are able to get world-class education, there are many others who cannot even sign their names."

The chief guest and keynote speaker of the occasion was Rt Sir Gerald Kaufman who spoke on "The responsibility of being Pakistan". He said that he was delighted to be part of the ceremony of the institute as he had admired Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his achievements and was appalled and horrified at his end. He said that there were 800,000 Pakistani-origin people in Britain and Islam was among the largest religions in the country, second only to Christianity. He said that Pakistanis had made a significant contribution to the fields of medicine, law, sports, law and order and the arts in the UK and were the best liked when it came to food. "However, Pakistan has enormous problems of pollution and poverty," he lamented, "and it is essential that they must solve these because it might not be the richest Islamic nation but it is the most significant as it has huge responsibilities." He said that Pakistan had taken up the mission to prove that just because it was a Muslim country did not mean that it was not liberal. After all, he said, Pakistan was the first Asian country to have a woman prime minister. "The biggest responsibility that Pakistan has to shoulder is that it has to prove that a developing country can counter poverty and disease and can do much more industrially and commercially than a call centre." He said that he hoped that President Musharraf would establish true democracy in Pakistan, as democracy was a part of the country's constitution and, "a Pakistan that is not democratic is not the Pakistan established by Mohammad Ali Jinnah." He urged the students to stay back in Pakistan, as their country needed their contribution to enlighten it and help it prosper and grow to its full potential.

SZABIST awarded gold medals to Munira Mansuri and Sanam Pathan of BBA, Mehjabeen Sultan and Muhammad Tahauddin Ahmed of MCS and Muhammad Umair Naqvi of MS for their outstanding performance. Five surprise gold medals were also awarded by corporate organisations to Farah Ali Nawaz of MBA for brand management, Jyoti Balani of MBA for treasury and funds management, Beenish Nida Afaq of MBA for pharmaceutical management, and Zara Rehman and Muffadal of MBA for sales management.

Gold medallist Sanam Pathan spoke on behalf of the medallists and said that SZABIST was much more to her than just an institution where she had achieved a degree. "SZABIST is an inspiration for everyone who believes that the purpose of life is a life of purpose. It is a corridor of opportunities and it has taught us to dream, dare and achieve." She thanked the faculty for their support who, she said, always went an extra mile to help the students. The institution also recongnised two of it's employees, Asif Qazi and Natasha Lobo, for having successfully completed ten years with SZABIST.

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The Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology is a non-profit, publicly and privately funded, Independently chartered, graduate institute of science and technology. It has been established with the objectives of producing  highly qualified scientific and technical personnel to meet the country’s  requirements; of conducting state-of- the-art scientific and technological research and development in support of the  private and public sector; of providing high-tech scientific and technological assistance to the Pakistan industry to enable it to compete with  the world industries in global trading; of providing highly trained scientific and technological personnel to be able to attract the growth of high-tech industries and foreign and Pakistani investment; and of providing a sound socio-economic and scientific base and infrastructure to Pakistan to be able to meet the economic and technological challenges of the 21^st century.

SZABIST programmes okayed by Dubai’s quality assurance body

Karachi: Government of Dubai’s international quality assurance body has approved the programmes of the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of science and Technology (SZAIST).
This was announced by the spokesperson of the SZABIST on Wednesday.
“SZABIST has become the only Pakistan-based university whose programmes have been approved by the Government of Dubai’s highly reputable international quality assurance body following an international peer review”, the spokesperson further maintained.
It was pointed out that the academic programmes of the SZABIST Dubai Campus were reviewed by the University Quality Assurance International Board (UQAIB) set up by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) of the Government of Dubai.
Dr A Faiz M Ishaq, Head of Dubai Campus, highlighted the curriculum and key features of the programmes being offered in Dubai.
The board approved all the six academic programmes being offered in the Dubai Campus, which are the same as those being taught in the home Campus of SZABIST.
The six programme were identified as: Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Science in Computing, Bachelor of Science in Media Studies, Executive Master of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Computing.
As a next step, Dr Ishaq also presented a framework of the plans that SZABIST had for further strengthening its academic programmes.
Dr Warren Fox, UQAIB Chairman and Executive Director of Higher Education at KHDA, said: “We are very pleased with what SZABIST has done, especially because this has been a joint effort with other institutions in Dubai. This really is what UQAIB is about; we are striving to guarantee the standard of higher education in our Free Zones”.
The KHDA of the Government of Dubai has set up UQAIB to assist qualifications and programmes with oversight of the quality of higher education offered by foreign higher education providers operating in the Dubai Free Zones.
The 10-member UQAIB board comprises academics and quality assurance experts from around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, UK, South Africa, USA, Hong Kong, India and Saudi Arabia.

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Szabist Dubai campus on track after probation

Knowledge and Human Development Authority arm satisfied with quality of programmes after review

Dubai: After having all its programmes put on probation since April last year, the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (Szabist) Dubai Campus is now back on track, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority announced on Sunday.

Ten universities, including Szabist, in Dubai's Free Zones came under review last week when the University Quality Assurance International Board (UQAIB) members met. Six universities had asked for their licences to be renewed, one application for a new university was considered, and three universities were asked to supply UQAIB with more information about their academic programmes and accreditation from their home campuses.

The UQAIB ensures the quality of the higher education provided by branch campuses in Dubai's free zones is the same as the accredited home campus.

Head of Szabist Dubai Campus Dr Faiz Ishaq said all academic programmes were put on probation last year though the institution was allowed to admit students.

To get its programmes approved by the KHDA, Szabist prepared a 350-page self-study report on all aspects of its programme, said Dr Ishaq. The report was reviewed by panels of independent reviewers drawn from other institutions, such as Hult, University of Wollongong in Dubai, Murdoch University, Zayed University, he said.

"They were generally satisfied with the curriculum content, facilities, infrastructure etc. However they raised some concerns and made some comments that we are actively pursuing."