Ziauddin University confers degrees on 760 students

ZU Chancellor Dr Asim says varsity will equip departments with best equipment

KARACHI:

Ziauddin University (ZU) awarded 760 degrees to the graduating students for various disciplines at the convocation 2022, held at the Family Park adjacent to the varsity on Tuesday.

Graduating students were conferred degrees in various disciplines including MBBS, dental surgery, PharmD, physical therapy, occupational therapy, medical technology, and biomedical.

Moreover, the varsity conferred degrees in engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, electrical engineering technology, software engineering, communications & media studies, BEd, audiology and speech-language therapy, science in nursing, MS, MD, MPhil, and PhD.

Appreciating the efforts of all the graduating students, chief guest Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy Syed Sardar Ali Shah said, “there is no doubt that the talented young people who have graduated from our country have not only made Pakistan proud all over the World for their intelligence, but they are also providing services in accordance with modern requirements in various fields.”

ZU Chancellor Dr Asim Hussain congratulated the graduating students. “On the achievement of this milestone, remember those who have supported you in this journey, especially your parents, teachers, and mentors.”

Dr Asim said the varsity added cutting-edge tools, digital technology in education in all faculties. A recent example is the addition of Anatomage the 3D dissection system for the Anatomy department and the VR Dental Simulator for the students of dentistry.

This is the beginning and in the next couple of years, we will see equipment that is not available in any other university in Pakistan.

Keynote speaker of the ZU convocation, former federal minister for information and broadcasting Javed Jabbar tells the importance of knowledge to students, he stated, “providing higher education to youngsters is a solemn public responsibility and a big commitment in a country where 20 million children are out of school.”

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Earlier, ZU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Syed Irfan Hyder said, “a degree is not the end of your life; it is the beginning of your professional and practical lives.”

He said the name of the degree programme simply indicates a small subset of the immense ocean of knowledge.

While giving the gold medals, ZU Pro-Chancellor Dr Nida Hussain said, “being in the middle of the global pandemic and you as a student and we as a university have overcome a lot of challenges together.”

She awarded Sir Ziauddin Gold Medals to the top 13 position holders for their exemplary academic performance during their tenure at Ziauddin University. The medal recipients included Gulrukh Shakil (MBBS), Sunita (Software Engineering), Ali Mustafa (Dentistry), Aliza (Pharm. D), Urvah Hadia Dilshad (Physical Therapy), Ameerah Ganny (Speech-Language Therapy), Anita Salim Makhani (Nursing), Rabia Hussain (Media Sciences), Areej Ahmed (Biomedical Engineering), Arbab Ahmed (Electrical Engineering), Ovais Shafi (Civil Engineering), Salman Humayun (Electrical Engineering Technology), Ummeha Wasi (Medical Technology).

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2022.