STAFF REPORT ISB: After months of deliberations, the first federal university for women will be set up in the capital in the next financial year, once an ordinance has been enacted to upgrade the Islamabad Model College for Girls (IMCG), F-7/2.
Correspondence between the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and IMCG is under way to grant the college the status of a varsity. An allocation of Rs20 million has been proposed for the varsity.
Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal has recently announced the governments intention to set up a womens university in the capital earlier this year at IMCG.
The college offers five graduate programmes at present. HEC and the Capital Administration and Development Division, which looks after the capitals education institutes, are working on an ordinance to upgrade IMCGs status.
IMCG, established in 1967, was initially known as the Federal Government (FG) College for Women. In 2011, its name was changed along with all FG colleges, which were renamed as model colleges.