The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Lahore Regional Office and Government College University Lahore signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the cooperation in providing financial literacy and training to the university students about the functioning of capital markets and their role in economic development through hands-on experience.
A seminar titled “Humans without Human Rights” was held at Government College University Lahore under the auspices of its newly formed Kashmir Society to discuss how the current policy of Pakistan was able or unable to address the changing situation in the Indian Occupied Kashmir.
A thalassemia awareness seminar was held at the Government College University Lahore under the auspices of its Blood Donor Society (BDS) and a non-government organization (NGO), Kashif Iqbal Thalassemia Care Centre (KITCC).
A ceremony was held here at the Government College University Lahore on Thursday to celebrate the 98th birth anniversary of one of its most eminent alumni, Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Har Gobind Khorana.
The Government College University Lahore, one of the oldest seats of higher learning in Pakistan, has turned 156. Founded on January 1, 1864 in the Haveli of Raja Dhyan Singh in the Walled City Lahore as the liberal arts and Science College, it served as a nourishing stream to the generations of talented men and women.
A delegation of 55 Baloch students and their teachers from Cadet College Killa Saifullah (CCKS), Balochistan visited the Government College University (GCU), Lahore for a study tour on Wednesday. The delegation visited various academic departments of GCU and also met Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Asghar Zaidi.
The VC told the delegation that GCU offered doubled number of special seats to Baloch students on quota basis, besides giving scholarships and other facilities. He added that they all were all Pakistanis and they had to collectively work for its development.
Professor Zaidi told the students that GCU had produced countless legendary personalities, including Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Nobel Prize winner Dr Abdus Salam, adding that most of the scientists who carried out nuclear tests and designed missile system also belonged to this institution. The students also visited library, Sports Complex and Naqoosh Museum.
The GCU is one of the oldest seats of learning in the Muslim world. As a seat of higher learning GC University blends grand old traditions and modern educational standards to meet the ideals set by persons like Dr. Leitner, philosopher the poet, Dr Muhammad Iqbal and the Noble Laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
With an eventful, glorious history of 154 years, the Government College University (GCU) has a distinct place in Pakistan’s higher education sector. The institute was founded in 1864 as Government College Lahore – an affiliate college of Calcutta University – and was placed under the leadership of Dr GW Leitner, a professor at King’s College London.
In 1882, it became affiliated with the University of the Punjab, and has since produced tens of thousands of scholars who have gone on to serve the country in fields too diverse to put into writing. Given its exemplary record and unique place in the annals of Pakistani history, GC was given the status of a university in 2002 and renamed GC University Lahore. The university is now a fully independent degree-awarding institution of higher learning and operates a campus in Faisalabad as well.
There is an urgent need to change society’s attitude towards arts education, Government College University Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Asghar Zaidi said on Wednesday.
Professor Dr Asghar Zaidi, the vice chancellor of Government College University (GCU) Lahore, has published his first journal paper for the GCU in a reputed high-impact international journal on social policy. Professor Zaidi had more than 40 international journal articles to his credit, but this one is his first as a faculty member of the GCU Lahore.
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