SU Institute of English is varsity’s pride, Dr. Burfat

Sindh University Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat has termed SU Institute of English Language and Literature “the varsity’s pride” on account of its having to its credit 17 PhD faculty 15 of whom had earned their doctorate from leading universities of the United Kingdom.

“As a sociologist, I was entrusted with a project as principal investigator to assess human, academic and professional capital of 55 universities across Pakistan; and in the light of given assessment, I declare IELL as the best in entire country; as it possesses a squad of highly passionate and dedicated faculty with the highest number of PhD across Pakistan”, Dr. Burfat asserted.

Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat felicitated the institute Director Dr. Tarique Hassan Umrani, workshop supervisor Dr. Ghazal Kazim and event coordinator Manzoor Ali Panhwar, observing that IELL was blessed to have a highly charged team of devoted faculty to convene such academically-significant events.

This he said while he offered remarks as the Chief Guest at the closing ceremony of one-day international workshop on Language and Linguistics organized at Video Conference Hall of the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences by Institute of English Language and Literature of the varsity.

Dr. Abigail Parrish of Grosseteste University, Lincoln, United Kingdom, Dr. Ghulam Ali Buriro and Dr. Abdul Hameed Panhwar were the resource persons of the workshop which was designed exclusively for M. Phil and PhD scholars of the institute.

Earlier, IELL Director Dr. Tarique Hassan Umrani presented welcome note and shared with the audience the catalogue of academic, research and professional activities the institute has in offing to convene which included 2nd National Student Research Conference in November this year.

Workshop supervisor Dr. Ghazal Kazim informed those present that organizing international research workshops had become an integral proud feature of IELL and that the day’s event was fifth such workshop under the said aegis.