BRITISH COUNCIL PRE-DEPARTURE BRIEFINGS

British Council Pakistan is organising pre-departure briefings for students who are planning to leave for the UK in September 2010. The purpose of these briefings is to help students with their pre-departure preparations and to guide them on how to settle down smoothly after their arrival in the UK.

UK alumni and current students who are on their summer break in Pakistan will share their experiences during the sessions.

Students will have chance to win Free One-Way ticket to the UK by participating in an “Essay Writing Competition”. The tickets are being sponsored by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).

Essay Writing Competition topic:

“How will you promote friendship between UK and Pakistan whilst studying in the UK?”

Interested students can submit their essays through info@britishcouncil.org.pk by 28 July 2010. we encourage you to share this information with your students to attend the briefings.

Briefing session dates:

Karachi          02 August 2010

Lahore          04 August 2010

Islamabad      06 August 2010

Registration deadline: 28 July 2010

Please visit www.educationuk.org.pk for registration and detail of the competition.

(16-07-2010)

GC UNIVERSITY holds workshop ON PERSONALITY DEVELOMENT for PEEF scholarship holders

The GC University Lahore Saturday organized a special day-long training workshop titled ‘personality development and communication skills’ for the university’s students who have been awarded scholarships under the Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF). Shahzeb Khan and Siddique Awan were the course instructors.

As many as 81 students enrolled in the intermediate and undergraduate programmes of GCU attended the workshop conducted and designed by the university’s English Department on the special request of PEEF. The training was focused on interpersonal, presentation and interaction skills, time-management, critical thinking and the art of appropriate attire. The workshop instructors also conducted various activities with the students besides detailed multimedia lectures and question answer sessions. The instructors asked the students to make the list of their short-term and long-term objectives, happiness wishes and daily routine. Later, a detailed discussion was held on the efforts of students to achieve these targets.

Later, Punjab Educational Endowment Fund Manager Scholarships Naveed Akbar Cheema lauded the professional approach adopted by the workshop instructors and thanked the GCU for having conceived and conducting and innovative workshop which was first of its kind. At the end Babar Ali Deputy Registrar (Academics) GCU Lahore thanked the PEFF’s representative for an active liaison with the University. The participants of the workshop expressed elation for having attended this novel workshop.

(02-11-2009)