Institute of Hotel and Resturant Management

Hotels and Restaurants bolster up local businesses and help in their growth and expansion; provide for business travelers, facilitate organizing of conventions and conferences, host not only for meals but also cater to wedding functions. Hotel are decent venue to hold meetings for training, business promotions, and trade fairs. They offer personalized services that is a cut above the others.

The course in Hotel and Restaurant Management provides opportunities to individuals to learn the skills to serve the guests in a positive ambience in various capacities, vis-à-vis: Guest Service Manager, Reservation clerks, concierge, front office managing, food & beverage handlers, telephone operators, security, book-keepers, cashiers, room service helpers, and house-keepers. Some may start with laundry room, food service, or work behind the scenes, such as chefs, cooks, saucier, and bakers. There are ample opportunities to work in departments such as in Engineering, Personnel, Training, Banquets Departments, Sales and Marketing. There are a lot more opportunities for those who seek job satisfaction by working diligently, honestly and dedicatedly.

Hotel Management & Operation

Front office is not only the reception area but it also includes reservations, switchboard, valet, Concierge etc. Its most vital and important role can be expressed in one sentence “It is the first and the last experience a guest has” in any hotel.

Housekeeping department handles all customer related care applied in Housekeeping technical operations. The students will have the opportunity to learn various aspects of the function of this department in the upkeep of the Hotel.

Food and Beverage Operation

Food & Beverage department is not only related to cooking and serving but it also has everything to do with how the guests experiences the service in their rooms, restaurants, bars, banquets, pool, conventions, corporate meetings and or even a small seminars, It is where most guests interact.

Accounting

This accounting section would not detail the entire department but lays down the principles of accounting, maintenance of the books, cash and or manual registers and basic computer knowledge. It also has everything to do with how the guests experience during their stay at the hotel and restaurant. How to accurately prepare the invoices, bills, checks and balances. Cash and Credit handling procedures etc.

Sales and Marketing

A hotel guest Relation Officer handles all customers, from greeting to building a rapport, from the individual or a group, checking in the out and is instrumental in customer retention & future business.

Computer and IT

Students will be exposed to the computerized system that are used in Hotel & Restaurants which would provide a hands on experience in learning, reservation, inventory controls, reporting etc.

You would be trained to the international standard with the balance on Hotel and Restaurants, food and services, maintained in our culture.

What makes IHRM-UOG different?

Personal attention and focus by the facilitators. Student-Teacher ratio 7:1

Hands on training in Front Office, Housekeeping, Food & Beverage and Accounting.

Internship at well established and reputable facilities in and around the Golden Triangle, Lahore & Islamabad.

Theoretical knowledge aided with audios and Videos.

Practical training by International credential holding facilitators.

Teaching of American and European Standards backed by the syllabus used in both U.S.A and Europe.

Emphasis on all areas of Hospitality under the same umbrella.

Job placement assistance will be available to outstanding performers.

Expected Results:

Demonstrate with confidence the basic knowledge and skills acquired.

Identify the difference between various roles and responsibilities of all positions in Rooms Division, Food & Beverage and accounting.

Walk the talk of the business by displaying operational competence to the Hospitality Industry employers.

Demonstrate the ability to work with confidence as an effective team player in any Hotel & Restaurant in this diverse day and age.

Start your own Hotel and Restaurant Business

Advancement in Career and Education.

Centre for Research and development

Research and development is the backbone of university and institutions of higher learning where knowledge is not only transferred but consistently generated, ideas are evolved, hypotheses are developed and proved, their applications are demonstrated and prototypes are built for fabrication through the industry for the benefits of the community. This necessitates the need to establish the Directorate of Research and Development with the aim to facilitate and co-ordinate research activities in UoG departments, set up Consultancy service (CS) and Technology Incubation Center (TIC)/Technology Park, create linkage with other national as well as international academic institutions, R&D and industrial organizations. The Directorate's job scope encompasses the following areas:

Objectives:

To ensure that high quality research of direct relevance to our country's needs, pertaining to both public and private sectors.
To establish linkages between UoG Departments/institutes/centers and industry both in the public and private sectors and to facilitate contract research benefit to the UoG and public/private sectors.
To assist in obtaining research grants from the public/private sector and foreign agencies.
To generate R&D funds through sponsored projects and consultancy services for further upgradation of libraries, computing facilities, laboratories and research facilities at UoG.
To co-ordinate placement of students at different stages of their education with relevant organizations for practical training and subsequent employment.
To encourage and activate research activities in order to upgrade the overall quality of teaching and learning within UoG.
To keep the UoG faculty abreast of the latest developments in their respective areas of specialization.
To disseminate research findings through conferences/seminars and workshops etc.

Future Research and Training Plan

The Centre's agenda for research includes current key population issues. These include urbanization, migration, environment, public health and reproductive behaviour. These initiatives will provide an opportunity to students as well as teachers to sharpen their research skills and dredge up their knowledge of empirical studies with expertise in data analysis. Another major research project under consideration is Socio-demographic Mapping of Punjab. This survey will be designed with a vision to establish benchmark indicators on socioeconomic and demographic conditions of the people of Punjab at district and provincial levels. Survey findings will be helpful in identifying information about the pace of demographic transition vis-a-vis the developmental momentum in the stratified districts of Punjab. It will further help identify future requirements of labour force and highlight the dependency ratio in selected districts of Punjab.

The Centre, by conducting various surveys, will develop a substantive database which will be used by faculty, staff and students for further analysis, preparation of theses and dissertations, classroom instruction, and for planning of programs or development of policies. Although the database will serve the entire campus, it will be most useful for those in social sciences such as population sciences, economics, sociology, psychology, as well as medicine, public health, education and information science, and public policy. This Centre is also planning to start short courses in the fields of gender studies, reproductive health, criminology, and demography, quantitative and qualitative techniques of population data analysis. Training workshops will also be conducted in data analysis techniques, presentation of data, communication skills, teaching methodology and human resource management.

A research journal titled “Pakistan Journal of Social Issues” under the chief editorship of Prof. Dr Muhammad Nizamuddin has been launched. Its first issue is in the process of printing.

Faculty of Social Sciences

Social sciences today have spread into more and more specialized disciplines, which deal with different aspects of social life of the people in a society. The compartmentalization of social sciences into various disciplines does not, however, negate the fundamental characteristics that it deals with social facts in whatever context we may study them. What makes the modern social sciences different is the method of discovering facts and figures. In spite of practical difficulties faced by social scientists in maintaining objectivity in the collection of facts, the coherence of social phenomenon and the profound unity of social sciences have never been seriously doubted.

Developing nations such as Pakistan are making their utmost effort to modernize themselves in order to achieve dynamic social institutions that are capable of solving their complex and diversified problems. Development, therefore, both economic and social, has become a keyword in the community of developing nations in the present era. It is not only a process of change, but it also signifies the plans and policies of government as well as other business and commercial institutions to find ways and means for satisfying the rising expectations of the people.

In Pakistan, there is a dire need of diverting the efforts of development on scientific lines, which means a concrete and deliberate emphasis on rational process of working in human organizations and manipulation of resources towards the attainment of desirable goals. The Faculty of Social Sciences at UOG has designed its academic programs keeping in view this need. UOG has planned close liaison and linkages with public and private sector organizations in order to facilitate the transition of the students from theory to practice for facing the real life problems in a dynamic working environment with courage, conviction and confidence.

Prof. Dr. Farish Ullah Yousafzai

Director (Dean)

Faculty of Social Sciences

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Farish Ullah Yousafzai completed his post-doctorate fellowship in the area of health communication from WKW School of Communication, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2006-2007. He has done his Ph.D in campaigns’ effects in the area of health communication from University of Karachi in 2002. He has more than 26 years post graduate level teaching experience and at his credit. He was selected as professor in communication sciences and appointed as Director Social Sciences, University of Gujrat in Dec. 2011. His area of interest is health communication effects and several national and regional journals have published his articles. His second area of interest is war and peace journalism. His book “Social Communication Campaigns: A Study of the Effects Process” has been translated into three European languages—French, German, and Russian. He has supervised more than 30 students at M.Phil level.

Dr. Atif Ali Jaffri

Associate Director

Faculty of Social Sciences

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Dr. Atif Ali Jaffri is currently working as Associate Director of Faculty of Social Sciences and Head of Economics department at University of Gujrat. He did PhD in Economics from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) in 2007. He was among pioneer badge of PhD Economics Program at PIDE. His doctoral dissertation was in the field of International Finance titled “Exchange Rate Pass-through to Consumer Prices in Pakistan: Does Misalignment Matter?” He has taught M.Phil courses including Advanced Macroeconomics, Advanced Econometrics, Current Issues in Pakistan Economy, and International Finance. He has published a number of research papers in the area of international finance along with supervising a large number of research theses. In 2012, he won competitive research grants from Higher Education Commission (HEC) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) as principal investigator.

Before joining UOG, he has worked in the Economic Analysis department of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for 5 years. During stay at SBP, he was extensively involved in writing chapters in Annual, Quarterly, and occasional reports.

As an economist and thinker, in his articles and talks he persistently supports indigenous thinking among students and faculty, inclusive growth, investment on youth, democratic values, economic uplift of marginalized groups of population, institutional transparency, female labor force participation irrespective of sectoral boundaries, friendly relations with neibourers including India, rehabilitation of trust between State and Awam, and prioritization of economic issues in political parties’ agendas. In his opinion, universities should promote culture of debate in classrooms, seminars, and society as a whole to motivate students for their effective role in the integration of educational institutions with society and industry.

Mr. Abid Majeed

Faculty Officer

Faculty of Social Sciences

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Mr. Abid Majeed is a faculty member at the Centre for Media & Communication Studies in the capacity of Research Officer. His career contains 13 years of managerial and administrative experience including more than 9 years in advertising, public relations, editing and creative writing in various reputable public and private organizations. He also taught various courses at undergraduate and graduate levels as visiting lecturer at Allama Iqbal Open University and Minhaj University as well.

His areas of interests include Political Communication and English language. He did his MSc degree in Mass Communication from Allama Iqbal Open University in 2006. He is a student of M.Phil Mass Communication Program at University of Gujrat.

Mr. Abid Majeed started his career in 1999 and served various esteemed public and private organizations majorly Institute of Communication Studies of Punjab University and Din Media Group. He was the editor of ‘Futureineye’ a magazine and sub examiner of BA (Journalism) at Punjab University.

He has been awarded multiple certificates of appreciations from various national and international organizations comprising of WHO, UNICEF, US Information Resource Centre, Bargad and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Pakistan/International Labor Organization.

Followings disciplines have been constituted under the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Department of Sociology
Department of Psychology
Department of Economics
Centre for Media & Communication Studies
Department of English (Linguistics & Literature)
Department of Population Sciences
Department of Education
Department of Physical Education & Sports Sciences
Department of Islamic Studies
Department of History & Pakistan Studies
Department of Political Science & International Relations
Modern Languages & Learning Centre (MLLC)

Nawaz Sharif Medical College

The University of Gujrat, the Rachna College of Engineering and Technology, Gujranwala, and the Gujranwala Campus of University of the Punjab are fulfilling the needs of local population in terms of Social Sciences, Basic Sciences, Computer Sciences, Commerce and Engineering education. However, medical education, though in high demand, is not available in these institutions. Realising the inadequate facilities of medical education and quality health services, the Government of the Punjab took a historic step to revolutionise the health care facilities in Gujrat by establishing the Nawaz Sharif Medical College (NSMC) at the University of Gujrat in September 2008.

The following objectives have been set for the NSMC:

It will establish a system of medical counselling in wards as well as out patients departments where doctors assisted by clinical psychologists and social workers will address the relatives of the patients about nature of the disease and its prognosis.
There will be regular interaction with the public at least twice a week on hygienic living conditions.
The doctors and paramedical staff will be trained by and under the direct supervision of highly qualified faculty members through utilising state-of the-art medical equipments and most recently adopted teaching methodologies.
To develop a system of interaction with colleges, schools and mosques to bring public awareness about prevention of diseases.
To establish research-oriented atmosphere among the doctors not only in modern medical field but also in indigenous medicine.
A mandatory system of medical, surgical and administrative audit will be established for ensuring accountability and responsibility on the part of employees, especially medical teachers.
By induction of highly qualified medical professionals and modern diagnostic and therapeutic equipments, not only the public of District Gujrat, but also adjoining areas of Gujranwala, Sialkot, Wazirabad, Jhelum, Kharian and Mandi Bahauddin will be facilitated.
The introduction of CT scan, MRI facilities, Cardiac Angiography, Cardiac Surgery, etc will provide state-of the-art health care facilities to the public of the area.
The College will develop a Health Management Information System and computer networking in the institution. In future, the College will become an institution for post-graduate studies.
In near future, College of Dentistry, College of Nursing, School of Physiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Centre will be set up in Gujrat.
The trend to attend the teaching hospital attached to the College will increase after the provision of new medical facilities. Therefore, there is also a need to expand the existing infrastructure of the hospital and equip it with modern medical equipments to facilitate the learners as well as patients of the local area.
Finally, the University of Gujrat plans to establish a Research and Development Centre to address the emerging issues through various socio-medical studies by engaging the medical and social sciences faculty/students both from the NSMC and UOG.

Faculty of Oriental languages and Islamic Studies

The Faculty of Oriental Languages and Islamic Learning currently comprises only the Department of English. However, departments of many other languages – French, Punjabi, Urdu, etc – will be established in the near future, and academic programmes from BS (Hons) to MPhil level will be offered in them. Moreover, the proposed departments of Islamic Studies and Pakistan Studies, which are currently being offered as compulsory courses by all departments of the University at the BS (Hons) level, will become a part of the faculty after introduction of full-fledged academic programmes in the two subjects. It is important to emphasise that the proposed Department of Islamic Studies will be a unique initiative; it will aim at introducing the true face of Islam, opposed to violence in all its manifestations. The University’s Chancellor, Punjab Governor Mr Salman Taseer, has already approved the plan to establish a Sufi Chair under the proposed Department.

Department of English