Browsing by Author "MUHAMMAD SHAHBAZ"

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    Effects of quality assurance measures on student performance in technical colleges
    (UMT.Lahore, 2017) MUHAMMAD SHAHBAZ
    Academic sector is under research in different areas to improve the student academic performance because the better academic performance of the students provides the base to all sectors to excel in the future. The technological development more increases the importance of the TVET (Technical Vocational Education and Training) to meet the requirement of the fast pace technological development in the society. The technical colleges have a prime responsibility to provide the technical education. Therefore it is important to improve the student academic performance in the technical colleges to provide the best skills workforce to the industries. This research analyzes the application of the quality assurance measures in the technical colleges and evaluates their impact on the student performance. This study is based on the quantitative research methodology. The questionnaire is developed on TEVTA (Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority) academic audit manual items and 4 Public technical colleges and 4 private colleges of Lahore are selected to collect the data. The data is collected from teacher’s total number of 60 respondents from selected 8 colleges. The regression analysis is performed in this study to analyze the impact of the quality assurance measures on the student performance in technical colleges. The quality assurance is independent variable and student performance is dependent variable in this study. These findings are in-line with the existing research that quality assurance positively impacts the performance. Keywords: Technical Vocational Education and Training, Quality Assurance, Students performance, Technical Colleges, Educational Objectives.
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    Prevalence of various breast cancer in patients admitted at Lahore general hospital, Pakistan
    (UMT Lahore, 2020) MUHAMMAD SHAHBAZ
    Breast cancer is a disease spread due to different factors but the most common one is due to, genetic mutation and menstrual cycle, breast feeding. Majority of the risk factors are similar among all types and their symptoms are also close enough. But by the help of screening and other analysis methods the exact type can be identified. There are number of treatments available for all the different types including surgeries, chemotherapies, radiation therapies and also much prevention to reduce the risk of having breast cancer. According to the WHO, breast cancer is the second most common cancer type after lungs cancer in the female that cause more deaths per year. As a rough figure indicated that more than 2.1 million patients are diagnosed with the breast cancer, and it also cause the greatest number of cancer related death among women. The ratio of cancer incidence is more in developing nation. The incidence and spread of breast cancer in Pakistan are higher due to lack of awareness among women’s not known precisely because it is a neglected disease in terms of detection and prevention. Epidemiological information on inconsistencies can be accessed in many tests in the light of some considerations, population restriction and only the management of registered cases. More than 300 patients are reported in a single hospital in the area of Lahore in one and half year. Out of which about 65% are diagnosed with the Benin tumors and 35% with any one of the breast cancer type. Out of the 35% of the breast cancer, 60% are ductal carcinoma, 40% are lobular carcinoma. This number of cases also highlighted the issue of increasing breast cancer. The statistical analysis showed the non-significant relationship between the age group of the patients and the number of patients. It is most common among the women of 40 years plus.