HYDERABAD, June 10: Adva-nced Studies and Research Board of the Sindh University in a meeting on Monday constituted a committee to check facilities in teaching institutes and departments for research apart from ongoing activities of MPhil and PhD.

The committee comprising of Dr Rafia Ahmed Shaikh, Dr M. Rais Ahmed, Dr M. Qasim Bughio, Dr Pervez Pathan and Dr Inayatullah Shah will visit different teaching institutes and departments of the SU to initiate MPhil programme and survey the available facilities. It will then report to authority.

The meeting approved research topics and named supervisors in education, library and information science, Sindhi, pharmacy, Islamic studies, sociology, and various disciplines of natural sciences for MPhil leading to PhD.

It also approved candidates transferring their registration from MPhil to PhD research. Dr Aijaz Ali Wassan, Dr Hamadullah, Dr Mehboob Ali Rind, Dr Saima Qayoom Memon and Dr Amber Rehana Solangi were named as MPhil and PhD supervisors for research in sociology, pharmacognosy, chemistry and analytical chemistry. It was decided to allot official web addresses to faculty members for correspondence.

The meeting was presided over by Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui and attended by pro-vice chancellor, faculties’ deans, senior professors and heads of various teaching institutes and departments.

SUMMER VACATIONS: The Sindh University has announced summer vacation from June 23 to July 26 while teaching will resume from July 28.

A notification issued by the registrar on Monday said institutes and departments will have to complete semester examinations before proceeding on vacations with teachers submitting results to heads of their respective departments.