Day: September 2, 2022

Lahore, September 02, 2022 (PPI-OT):Centre for Clinical Psychology, University of the Punjab arranged an awareness seminar on Positive Parenting in collaboration with UNICEF. This public awareness seminar was organized by Prof. Dr. Saima Dawood at Centre for Clinical Psychology on 2nd September, 2022 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. The goal was to increase awareness of general public about the effective parenting strategies for children with special needs.

Two resource persons including Dr. Atiya Inam (Associate Professor, Government Graduate College for Women, Gulberg) and Dr. Nazia Bashir (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Centre for Clinical Psychology, and University of the Punjab) enlightened the audience with their knowledge and experience.

The seminar was attended by parents of children with special needs and students of post-graduation from different institutions and professionals from the field of clinical psychology and speech and language pathology as well as there were people from general public. In the end Prof. Dr. Saima Dawood concluded the seminar by thanking the audience and resource persons for their time and effort.

For more information, contact:
Registrar,
University of the Punjab
Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-99231102
Fax: +92-42-99231103
E-Mail: registrar@pu.edu.pk
Website: http://pu.edu.pk/

Lahore, September 02, 2022 (PPI-OT):Punjab University Department of Digital Media and National Press Trust have entered into an agreement to promote digital media literacy and jointly organize training and educational development programs to improve standards of journalism. In this regard, a ceremony was held at Vice Chancellor’s office in which PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Niaz Ahmad, National Press Trust Chairman Munir Ahmad Khan, Department of Digital Media Chairperson Prof Dr Savera Shami, faculty members Chairperson Department of Development Communication Dr Ayesha Ashfaq, Dr Shazia Ismail Toor, Madiha Maqsood and others participated in the event.

Addressing the ceremony, Prof Dr Niaz Ahmad said that spread of fake news was one of the most important issues the media was facing in the present age of social media. He explained that the provision of accurate information to the people was a must to maintain high standards of journalism.

He highlighted that keeping in view the importance of the growing media industry, the university had upgraded the School of Communication Studies and established 6 new departments to cater to the market needs. Appreciating Prof Dr Savera Shami and Mr Khan for the MoU, he said that this was a part of the efforts to bridge university-industry gap and would resolve important issues being faced by the media industry.

Mr Khan stated that the NPT in collaboration with DDM would try to develop a mechanism to stop fake news. Prof Dr Savera Shami briefed that the DDM would launch campaigns to promote media literacy and curb the spread of fake news.

She told the participants that DDM and NPT would jointly work on various research and development programs too. She stated that the DDM would make efforts to introduce relevant curriculum at relevant levels of education to create awareness about digital media literacy.

“Under this collaboration, at least 15 digital media items/material would be produced by the faculty and students per month for the purpose,” Dr Savera vowed, adding that internship and job opportunities would also be provided to the students of DDM under this project.

For more information, contact:
Registrar,
University of the Punjab
Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-99231102
Fax: +92-42-99231103
E-Mail: registrar@pu.edu.pk
Website: http://pu.edu.pk/