LAHORE, April 26: The Business Initiative Directions (BID), an international organisation based in Madrid, Spain, has selected the Punjab University’s Gujranwala campus for International Arch of Europe Award (IAEA) 2012.

The BID has lauded the leadership of Prof Dr Ehsan Malik as PU campus director general.

For selection of IAEA Award 2012, according to a news release issued here on Thursday, a voting process was carried out during the BID World Congress with meetings in Paris, London, Geneva, Frankfurt, Madrid and New York over the past 12 months. It was based on one or several of the concepts such as the QC100 principles, customer satisfaction, leadership, technology, best practice, business results, ISO 9000 and TQM.

Prof Malik will receive the award at a ceremony to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, on April 30 (Monday). The ceremony will be attended by organisations from 72 countries, together with leaders from business fields, professionals from the world of economics, academic personalities and representatives from the diplomatic corps.

IBIT: The PU Institute of Business and Information Technology (IBIT) is organising its first job fair on Saturday (tomorrow) from 9am to 5pm. The job fair has been organised to provide employment opportunities to intelligent students of the institution.

As many as 18 national and multinational companies are setting up their stalls which will interview students and collect their CVs.

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