The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Director General Noor Amna Malik stressed the faculty members to furnish the name of the country by getting triumph as well as achievements through conducting of research in the field of higher education as she believes Pakistan does not carry good image in international community owing to the wave of terrorism and extremism and the higher edification is incomplete and meaningless without research.
She was addressing the concluding ceremony of a week-long training course on "Research Methodology & Skills" organised by Institute of English language and literature, University of Sindh in collaboration with HEC. The course under the theme of English Language Teaching Reforms (ELTR) was held in a bid to introduce the English language teachers of colleges and universities with new techniques of research and to urge them to pay full concentration towards research so that the improvements may be brought in the subject. On the scholarships of HEC 30 lecturers and assistant professors relating to English Deptt from different colleges and varsities took part in the course and completed it successfully.
Addressing the concluding session, the HEC DG Noor Amna Malik said that the higher education commission has started the training courses for the faculty members of English Department under the theme ELTR so that the teachers of colleges and varsities might be seated together in an attempt to provide them opportunities to share their experiences with one another. She said that she provided highly learned and qualified resource persons for the course and they taught the participants with hard work and full commitment. She added that it is the core responsibility of the apprentices now to go and share their experience with the other faculty members of English Deptt. Because she believed that the act of teaching is Sadqa-e-Jariah (a great thing).
"Thus those who have knowledge must come forward to pass it on to others, it is also the teaching of our religion", Ms. Malik added. Lauding the services of Vice Chancellor SU Professor Dr Nazir A. Mughal, Noor Amna said that he always made remarkable efforts to ameliorate the system of higher education and research by introducing a number of reforms in Sindh University (SU) Jamshoro. She advised the faculty members of SU to join hands with Dr Mughal so that he could be able to bring more reforms to steer the university out of old traditional way of teachings and culture.
Talking about the English Literature and Linguistic, Ms. Malik said there is an opinion in the varsities that the role of English literature is over which strongly needed to be discouraged: "I think there should not be discrimination with English literature; the role of literature will always last as it helps in building up the cultures and nations", she stated. She announced to hold another training course soon in SU so that the faculty of both English Language and Literature might be seated on one table to discuss the importance of linguistic and literature. "150 scholarships will be provided to the English teachers of colleges and universities throughout Sindh", Ms. Malik publicised in the ceremony.
On the occasion the resource persons including Saira Altaf, Dr Abdul Fatah Soomro and others were also awarded certificates of appreciations.