Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Explained

Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Motto:Quality Education at Doorstep
Provost:Muhammad Idrees[1]
Vice Chancellor:Zahoor-ul-Haq[2]
Dean:
  • Prof. Dr. Niaz Muhammad
  • Prof. Dr. Zahid Ali Khan Marwat
Academic Staff:501, among whom are 196 PhDs and 138 MPhils
Students:~15,345
Country:Pakistan
Coordinates:34.1509°N 72.0474°W
Campus:
  • Main Campus
  • Garden Campus
  • University College for Women
  • University College of Science Shankar
  • Riffat Mahal Campus
  • Rashid Hussain Shaheed Campus
  • Pabbi Campus
Colours: Green, red, brown
Other Name:AWKUM
Affiliations:Higher Education Commission (Pakistan), Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council, Pharmacy Council of Pakistan, Pakistan Bar Council

The Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) (Urdu: {{Nastaliq|جامعہ عبد الولی خان مردان) (Pushto; Pashto: د عبدالولی خان پوھنتون مردان) is a public university located in the Mardan District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[3] Established in April 2009, the university is named after Abdul Wali Khan, a prominent personality of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This institution has forty nine institutions affiliated with it.[4] The university started in an already-built postgraduate college of Mardan.[5] It has nine campuses and more than ten thousand students enrolled in thirty one disciplines as of 2015.[6] The campus at Swabi was opened in October 2010 in the Anbar Elementary College building and has since then become the University of Swabi. The Palosa campus is home to Bacha Khan University.[7] Currently the university has three constituent colleges and six faculties. Those include the faculties of Arts & Humanities, Agriculture, Chemical and Life Sciences, Physical & Numerical Sciences, Economics & Business and Social Sciences. The Pashtunkhwa College of Art, Womans' College and the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College are also constituent colleges of the university.

Faculties and departments

Abdul Wali Khan University consists of six faculties, which have the following departments:

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Faculty Agriculture

● Agronomy

● Entomology

● Food Science and Technology

● Horticulture

Faculty of Business & Economics

Faculty of Chemical & Life Sciences

Faculty of Technologies & Engineering Sciences

Faculty of Numerical and Physical Sciences

Faculty of Social Sciences

University Institutes and Colleges

Campuses and libraries

The university has several campuses, each with library facilities:

There is also a digital library serving all campuses.[8]

University College of Science, Shankar

The University College of Science in Shankar has departments of Chemistry and Computer Science. It is housed in a 12.5-acre complex with state-of-the-art research laboratories. It has full-fledged working laboratories in physical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry and computer science. A video lecture facility is also available.

Garden Campus

The newly constructed Garden Campus of the university is spread over on more than 2000 Kanals of land having state of the art infrastructure, well equipped laboratories, one of the biggest libraries of the region, computer labs, three hostels with a capacity of 1500 students, two on campus colleges, sports complex and many other facilities. Classes in the campus have been started.[9]

Journals

Tahdhīb al Afkārbiannual is the biannual Islamic studies research journal of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan published in three different languages English, Urdu and Arabic.[10]

Extra-curricular activities

The university provides extra-curricular activities such as painting, articles, photography and sport. The students can participate through proper channels.[11] The university provides facilities for many sports; they have been merged into the Department of Physical Education and Health and named as Department of Physical Education and Sports.[12]

Academic collaborations

Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan establish partnerships with national as well as internationaluniversities, associations, institutes and academies and have signed a memorandum of understanding(MOUs or MoUs) with each. The following is the list of international collaborations.[13] [14] [15] [16]

S/N University / association Country
1 United Kingdom
2
3
4 School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London)
5
6
7
8 Germany
9 Germany
10 Malaysia
11 University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM) Malaysia
12 South Korea
13 South Korea
14 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea
15 Spain
16 Italy
17 Turkey
18 Turkey
19 Turkey
20 Turkey
21 Turkey
22 United States
23 United States
24 United States
25 Thailand
26 New Zealand
27 New Zealand
28 Eastern European University Association Russia
29 Germany
30 United States
31 Promotion of Education in Pakistan (PEP) Foundation, Inc. United States

Mashal Khan incident

See main article: Death of Mashal Khan.

On 13 April 2017, Mashal Khan, a journalism student at the university, was murdered by a mob apparently including university employees and some of his classmates on the false suspicion of uploading blasphemous content on the social networking site Facebook.[17] [18] [19]

Vice Chancellors

(May 1, 2020–Present)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Provost office. www.awkum.edu.pk.
  2. Web site: Professor Dr. M. Khurshid Khan, Newly Appointed Vice-Chancellor of AWKUM, Will Take Charge of His Office Today.
  3. Web site: University Info. AWKUM. 26 August 2012. 12 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171112232114/http://awkum.edu.pk/Univ_Intro.html. dead.
  4. News: 49 colleges affiliated with AWK University, says VC. 2 November 2013. The News. 27 February 2010.
  5. News: It's time new KP varsities offer quality education. 11 September 2013. Dawn. 15 June 2013. Sadia Qasim Shah. https://archive.today/20131201062445/http://x.dawn.com/2013/06/15/its-time-new-kp-varsities-offer-quality-education/. 2013-12-01. dead.
  6. News: Wali Khan varsity marks foundation day today. 11 September 2013. Dawn. 24 February 2012.
  7. News: Hoti inaugurates Wali Khan varsity campus in Swabi. 2 November 2013. The News. 24 October 2010. Muhammad Farooq.
  8. Web site: Libraries. AWKUM. 26 August 2012. 2 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190402112305/https://www.awkum.edu.pk/Administration/Library.html. dead.
  9. Web site: Garden Campus construction.
  10. Web site: Tahdhīb al Afkār. tahdhibalafkar.com.
  11. Web site: Extra Curricular activities. AWKUM. 26 August 2012. 23 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170823120155/http://www.awkum.edu.pk/Extra_Circular/Extra_circular.html. dead.
  12. Web site: Sports. AWKUM. 26 August 2012. 11 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180911002438/https://www.awkum.edu.pk/Administration/Sports_Section.html. dead.
  13. Web site: :: Welcome to AWKUM . www.awkum.edu.pk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121013112111/http://awkum.edu.pk/Faculty/MOUs_With_Foreign_Universities.html . 2012-10-13.
  14. Web site: AWKUM signs MoU with Victoria University - Daily the Patriot. 13 October 2014.
  15. Web site: MoU signed between two universities of Pakistan and Turkey.
  16. Web site: AWKU signs MoU with University of Camerino Italy. 8 November 2013.
  17. Web site: Mardan university students beat 'liberal' classmate to death. samaa.tv. 2017-04-15.
  18. Web site: Three AWKU employees among 13 arrested in Mashal Khan case. 15 April 2017. tribune.com. 2017-04-15.
  19. Web site: Khattak for judicial probe into student lynching. 15 April 2017. nation.com. 2017-04-15.