IIUI Website: Some Responses

As a follow up to our post on IIUI website (http://iiuiblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/iiui-website-great-hodgepodge.html), we have recieved a couple of e-mails from our readers. First of all, we regret one mis-information regarding Dr Abdul Khaliq Kazi. We have been told that since he is on leave, he is still the dean of the faculty. We are sorry for that. There, however, arises another question which we want to discuss in another post in the future. This is about the appointment of foreign faculty as well as contract faculty on important administrative positions such as deans, deputy deans and the problems that come with it.

We must appreciate the web team of IIUI for their prompt response to our post. We had alluded in our post that all the resposibility for the problems in the website does not fall on the web team. There are many other players to it. We consider that generation of accurate and quality content is a department level responsibility and all heads/incharges should be asked to provide and update the data on regular basis. Any content related errors (such as typographical errors and incorrect information) should be attributed to the concerned departments. The members of IIUI web team have assured us that they are ready to amend the website as per suggestions given in the post. We are sure they are capable enough to perform their technical duty but the faculties and departments in the university should realize their duty as well and provide them correct well-edited information to the web team so that the public face of International Islamic University becomes attractive and the visitors to the website should think that this is the place where they wanted to go for their higher studies.