The Punjab government has set aside Rs 100 million to build a new campus for the University of Health Sciences (UHS) and chosen 50 acres of land in Kala Shah Kaku in Sheikhupura, a university spokesman revealed on Tuesday. He said the government would spend the money on land and constructions.
The new campus will accommodate new academic departments of forensic sciences, public health and biostatistics, genetics and genomics, behavioural sciences, a training and research hospital, a management block, a residential area, hostels and research laboratories.
Vice Chancellor Professor Malik Hussain Mubbashar chairing a meeting of foreign faculty on Tuesday said research in medical sciences was relatively a new phenomenon in Pakistan and new changes in curriculum and teaching were needed.
Professor Mubbashar also said professors appointed in the university affiliated colleges to contact his university and submit a report on their ongoing research projects and problems every three months. He told them to be part of the examination process.
Faculty members agreed to visit the university once a week and work on special projects in various departments and proposed that the university appointed research registrars in every department of its affiliated colleges to promote research culture at the under-graduate level. The faculty members were appointed by the university under the Higher Education Commission's Foreign Faculty Hiring Programme.