About CEGS
Centre of Excellence in Gender Studies (CEGS) has been established under the Centre of Excellence Act on 31st August 2004 to promote Gender Studies as a learning discipline in Pakistan. The Centre is an autonomous body working through its Board of Governors, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the university and funded by the Government of Pakistan through the Higher Education Commission.
The Centre offers M.Phil. and BS in Gender Studies degree programs for which the academic program has been prepared and recommended by the Academic Committee of the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
OBJECTIVES
Platform for Gender Studies
Provide a number of scholars for the community and arrange conferences, seminars, workshops.
PhD and Masters Program
Establish Ph.D. and other programmes in the relevant discipline in accordance with the standard and requirement of the university in which the Centre is established.
Interdisciplinary relation
Promote co-operation in inter-disciplinary relationship with other teaching and research establishment.
Teaching and Research
Conduct teaching and research in such particular discipline by the Federal Government in consultation with the university in which Centre is established.
Train research workers
Highly qualified and well-educated faculty and staff available for guidance to the students
Arrange conferences, seminars, workshops.
Establishing a community of Gender experts through scholarly and literary discovery