PU MPhil professional track initiative comes to a halt.

LAHORE -- The Punjab University School of Communication Studies' (SCS) MPhil Professional Track (self-support) programme has virtually come to halt because of a lack of interest of the faculty concerned.

Even the pleas of the students enrolled last year in this programme had been falling on a deaf ear for the last one year.

'I have already deposited admission and first semester fee (Rs56,000) but the department has been making one excuse or another to start the classes for the last one year,' an affected MPhil Professional Track (self-support 2021 session) student told Dawn on Friday.

He said programme coordinator Dr Lubna Zaheer who was recently promoted as professor told the students (who enrolled in the MPhil professional track self-support programme last year) that the department needed to have a strength of at least six students to start the session. 'This year too neither the department nor the programme coordinator (Lubna Zaheer) showed interest...