Tuesday, 17 September 2024
American Superhero
American Superhero - Smart with ripped body, owns all kinds of stylish rides and fancy gadgets. They fight aliens, evil terrorists or corrupt dictators and can do unimaginable things. But...american superhero cannot find time to spent with his kids, he cheats on his wife and only talks to his parents on Christmas. He is Superhero for external world but for his family he is a looser.
An ordinary muslim man is obligated to look after his family, his parents and his kids. He may not be the superhero for the world but he is a hero for his family.
Thursday, 6 July 2023
Workshop on Outcome Based Education
Saturday, 12 August 2017
MUET Harassment Complaint Cell
According to a research conducted
by UNISON in 2008, more than 50% working women face sexual harassment in
Pakistan. An increasing number of violence cases are filed every day and there are
even bigger number of incidents which go
unreported. A total of 24119 of violence against women cases were reported
during 2008-10 among which only 520 workplace harassment cases were filed.
Harassment
against women at workplace is totally unacceptable behavior and we highly need
to understand this that it’s not ok in any case to bear it. This is just not a
behavior but it’s a crime and those who do this can be punished legally.
Harassment should be reported immediately; sadly it has remained common and unreported
as well.
There
are several reasons behind this, like fear of disrespect, exploitation,
blackmailing but all these can be stopped when the offenders are exposed; not
by silence.
“Silence
promotes them, exposing them stops harassment”
In
order to avoid such an environment that affects working conditions and creates
a hostile work environment for women, Government of Pakistan has enacted an act
in 2010 “Protection against Harassment of women at the Workplace Act” with a
motive to create a safe working environment for women which is free of
harassment, abuse and intimidation allowing them to work with dignity. It has
established various harassment complaint cells all over the country and has
directed HEC and universities to constitute enquiry committees for this
purpose.
What is Sexual Harassment?
Sexual
harassment involves unwanted or unwelcome behavior, which can offend, humiliate
and intimidate a person while creating a hostile working environment.
Sexual
harassment includes but is not limited to:
- Making unwelcome sexual advances
- Verbal harassment or abuse, verbal or written communication (it includes narration of sexual incidents, emailing or messaging or showing explicit sexual content in print or electronic form (SMS, Email, Screensavers, Posters, CDs etc)
- Request for sexual favors (invitations for sex, requests for going out on dates)
- Physical conduct (like touching, kissing, patting, pinching, physical assault like rape etc.)
- Sexually demeaning attitude (leering or staring at a person’s body)
Any
of above mentioned acts is included in harassment , if it is unwelcome and is
causing interference in work performance or creating a hostile working
environment or the harasser attempts to punish the complainant for refusal to
comply with his/her requests and makes sexual favors a condition of employment.
How does it occur at workplaces?
According to the 2010 law, sexual harassment manifests itself at
a workplace in following three forms
- Wage increase
- Promotion (to a higher grade)
- Training opportunity (within or outside the country)
- Transfer (to another place, department etc.)
- Job itself
“Creation of Hostile Working Environment”
- any unwelcome advances ,
- request for sexual favor,
- other verbal or physical conduct ,
Which interferes with
individual’s work performance or creates a hostile and intimidating work
environment
Retaliation. If the victim refuses to
grant sexual favors, the perpetrator can retaliate in following
ways:
- Limiting an employee’s options for training, future promotions
- Distorting the evaluation (annual confidential reports)
- Generating gossip against the employee
- Limiting access to his/her rights (right to complain, right to work with dignity, right to promotions, wage increases etc)
What types of punishments are provided under this law?
If you lodged complaint within your organization i.e. to inquiry
committee, following two types of punishments can be given to the guilty
person. The Competent Authority can impose one or more of the following
penalties on recommendations of inquiry committee.
Minor Penalties
- Censure
- Withholding increment or promotion, for a specific period of time
- Stopping at an efficiency bar in timescale, for a specific period of time
- Recovering compensation from pay or any other source of guilty person (this compensation has to be paid to victim)
Major Penalties
- Reduction to a lower post or lower time-scale
- Compulsory retirement
- Dismissal from service (it disqualifies for re-employment)
- Removal from service
- Fine
Our
Worthy Vice Chancellor Prof Dr. Mohammad Aslam Uqaili has also constituted an
Enquiry committee comprising of 3 members which was previously led by Prof. Dr.
Mukhtiar. A. Unar and now by Prof. Dr. B.S. Chowdhry as Chairman HCC, Engr
Arshad Memon as Member HCC, Dr Attiya Baqai as Harassment Monitoring Officer.
MUET
HCC is taking complaints and it is online now. The aggrieved female students,
faculty or staff can register their complaints online. You can even attach
proofs or give the names of witnesses and accused persons to support your
complaint. MUET HCC will try its level best to keep the complaints
confidential. If complaints are found to be forge then serious action will be
taken by the MUET HCC committee. The rule book designed by HEC and act 0f 2010
regarding what comes under sexual harassment and the punishments is also
available on our university website for the general information.
In
order to raise awareness regarding this issue a seminar was also held on 25th
November 2016 at MUET Auditorium in which honorable Mr. Syed Pir Ali Shah, Provincial
Ombudsman Sindh, The Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace, Karachi,
was the Chief Guest. Worthy Vice
Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Aslam Uqaili, Pro Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Tauha
Hussain Ali, respected Directors, Deans, Registrar, Chairpersons, MUET
Harassment Complaint Cell Committee members and a large number of faculty and
students specially females attended this seminar.
It
is our goal to provide women a comfortable environment in MUET where they can
excel in their work and feel as safe as they feel safe at their homes. Our
religion also teaches us that Almighty Allah has created men to protect women,
support them and care for them, not to harass them or abuse them. We all want
peaceful environment in MUET and we are very thankful to our administration,
directors, deans, chairpersons and the male faculty and students for being so
cooperative and supportive.
Our
worthy vice Chancellor has taken many steps to provide such an environment by
promoting the establishment of Society of Women in Engineering, Baby Day Care
Center, Gender Equity,
References;
Article By: Attiya Baqai
“Why some Students fail while others succeed”
There is a saying that
“Hard work can beat talent when the
talent does not work hard”.
Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth, an American psychologist wanted to
know, that why some students fail and other students succeed in their lives. So
she and her research team went to West Point Military Academy and started
studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings, and in
every study, her question was, who is successful here and why?
After some research, they tried to predict which cadets would
stay in military training and which would drop out. They went to the National
Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in the
competition. They studied rookie teachers working in really tough
neighborhoods, asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by
the end of the school year, and of those, who will be the most effective at
improving learning outcomes for their students? They partnered with private
companies, asking, which of these sales people are going to keep their jobs?
And who is going to earn the most money?. In all those very different contexts,
one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of SUCCESS. And it was
not good looks not intelligence, it was not physical health nor it was IQ. It
was GRIT.
“GRIT is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.
Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not
just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really
hard, to make that future a reality. Grit is a living life, like it’s a
marathon, not a sprint.”
Her comments about Grit:
A few years ago, she started studying grit in the Chicago
Public School. She asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit
questionnaires and then waited around for more than a year to see who will
graduate. The results showed that, out of many kids, the grittier kids were
significantly more likely to graduate, even when she matched them on every characteristic
she could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test
scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school. So it’s not just a
competition of West Point or the National Spelling Bee in that grit matters. It
is also in schools, especially for kids at risk for dropping out. Every day,
parents and teachers ask her about, “How do I build grit in kids? What do I do
to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for a long run?” The honest answer is, she doesn’t know. What
she does know is that talent does not make you gritty. The researched data
showed very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not
follow through on their commitments. In fact, in their researched data, they
found that grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of
talent.
So far, the best idea she has heard about building grit in
kids is something called “Growth Mindset”.
This is an idea developed at Standard University by Carol Dweck, and it
is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with
your efforts. Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain
and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they are much more
likely to preserve when they fail because they don’t believe that failure is a
permanent condition. So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit. But
we need more. And that’s where I am going to end my remarks because that’s
where we are. That’s the work that stands before us. We need to take out our
best ideas, our strongest institutions, and we need to test them day in day
out. We need to measure whether we have been successful, or we have to be
willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned to come out
stronger. In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier.
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| "Bad Habits are easy to form but hard to live with, where as good habits are hard to form but easy to live with" |
Article By: Saqib Hussain (14TL06)
Friday, 11 August 2017
Is Smoking really banned in MUET?
Drug abuse is a fatal addiction of course we all know that but nobody really gives it a second thought and in a thirds world country like Pakistan most of the people don't even realize how much it affects their personal life in Sindh there are a lot of minors who start smoking under age of 15. According to a report on Express tribune
"It kills nearly six million people each year, of which 100,000 deaths occur in Pakistan. Of the six million deaths, more than 600,000 are victims of passive smoking."
And not only them but their families have to suffer their loss. Few major reasons of increasing numbers of smokers everyday are the lack of awareness and ease of access to the cigarettes to every age group let it be an 8 year child or 90 year elder you can find it on the next shop of your street on this regard the administration of MUET recently took appreciative steps to stop this course or slow it down worthy Vice Chancellor of Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Professor Dr. Aslam Uqaili passed an order of banning smoking in campus buildings and stopped the practice of any tobacco be sold and ordered all the canteens and kiosks to immediately cut the sale of these things on which they agreed upon but not for long , after few days canteen owners started selling these cancer causing materials again and is available easily.
Reports says these are being sold at canteens like hilltop kiosk opposite central cafeteria and falafel canteen so the question arises
- Is Smoking Really banned in MUET?
- Were any of these actions effective?
- Is the administration going to take any action?
Hopefully Yes,But you never know!
Article By: Makhdoom Abdul Aleem (15TL131)
Thursday, 10 August 2017
Editorial note by Dr. Fahim aziz umrani About FEECE MUET eNewsletter
Asalam o Alaikum everyone
Welcome to FEECE MUET E-Newsletter.After a prolonged hiatus of about Two Years we are pleased to Announce That this e-newsletter is back with new team and new vigor.one of the exiting announcements that we have to make in this issue is regarding the blog which is recently started for this newsletter along with our facebook page all our readers are invited to follow us at:
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