LCWU awards 1,165 degrees at 10th Convocation

Lahore, The 10th Convocation of Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Lahore was held in the University Auditorium on Monday December 24 (today).

Around 1165 students, who have passed BS, MS / M.Phil, Ph.D and Pharm-D in the year 2011, received their degrees. 146 students were awarded Rolls of Honour and 43 first position gold medals. 13 Roll Of Honour allocated for co-curricular achievements whereas 13 special medals also distributed.

Education minister Punjab Mian Mujtaba Shuja was the chief guest .in the absence of the Chancellor Governor of the Punjab, vice chancellor Dr.Sabiha Mansoor presided over the convocation.  It was the first time that Vice Chancellor Gold Medal has been announced for the students who has performed his excellence in academics and co-curricular activities.

Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Lahore has announced scholarships for its students belonging to remote and unprivileged areas.

Vice Chancellor Dr. Sabiha Mansoor chaired the scholarship committee and decided that the students from Interior Sindh, Punjab, FATA, Northern Areas, KPK will be the beneficiaries of 20 scholarships. According to the distribution all above mentioned areas will get five scholarships each.  

The Vice Chancellor called the deserving students (who fulfill all scholarship criteria) and awarded the following scholarships to them.

The mentioned (non-residents) students of LCWU at BS level will be entitled to full Silver Scholarships: Two from Gilgit, One from Kohat, One from Ranjapur, Two from Sindh, One from Baluchistan and one full Golden Scholarship to the resident student of BS program of LCWU from Hunza.

Addressing to the meeting Vice Chancellor Dr. Sabiha Mansoor said that LCWU’s aim is to emancipate young Pakistani women and to transform them through higher education from being silent, passive and helpless citizens into highly empowered leaders of society. “The importance of higher education for young women is a slogan whose significance is only being realised in the 21st century.

Lahore College for Women University, with its glorious past and rich tradition as one of Pakistan’s largest and oldest institutions providing education to women, is one such centre of academic excellence contributing towards a progressive Pakistan. The university has reserved a substantial sum of money to be dispersed as need based scholarships to the financially constrained students.