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The Research and Innovation Division of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan in collaboration with the Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi organized a two-day capacity building workshop for officials of ORIC and editors of research journals of Universities of Sindh on January 31st and February 1st at the Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto Auditorium of SMIU. During the workshop trainers talked on HEC’s recognition policy of research journals, funding for them, upgradation, review process and their quality enhancement.
Vice Chancellor SMIU Dr. Mujeeb Sahrai presided over the last and concluding session of the workshop, where in his speech he said this kind of capacity building workshops promote quality of research work and strengthen research culture in universities. “Besides quality teaching, research work serves as a backbone of universities, thus it must be given priority. Also, research journals are very important to get published research work of academia,” the Vice Chancellor concluded.

Regional Director of Sindh HEC Mr. Javed Memon also spoke on the occasion. He highlighted importance of quality research journals. Mr. Habibullah Nasir, Director HEC Islamabad, Dr. Azizur Rehman, Deputy Director HEC, and others also shared their views on the role of editors of research journals and said they must have command on the language in which journals are published and also on the editing skills. Faculty members of SMIU and other universities attended the workshop. In the end souvenirs were presented to the guests.