farzal.ecommerce.spring2008.iba.khi.pk

Last couple of weeks I’ve been internally burning at the joke that my compensation at IBA had gone up by Rs. 4 per 50 minute session (increment of .003%).

I raised the issue of giving visiting faculty increase of Rs. 04 (about .003%) with Mr. Danishmand, and heads of HR and Accounts team.

It was a positive surprise to hear back from Mr. D himself. He clarified that brackets were revised, but just not in time for printing of appointment letters. After revision, my increment now stands at a whopping 20%. This is good news for anyone thinking of joining a more professional teaching setup (as opposed to running tuition centres, which really exploit on the weakness of our country’s educational system – and in fact, make it even worse by attracting talented individuals to tuition business instead of exploring university and college teaching.

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Description of the course E-Commerce (MIS 403) is:

The course introduces the e-commerce concept, objectives, market drivers, requirements, underpinning techniques and technologies. Topics include: intelligent agents, client/server model, commitment, concurrency, recovery, network service, and application management, quality of service management, service level agreement management, application service providers and security management. Policy and regulatory issues in e-commerce will also be discussed. Finally, various e-commerce applications in the areas of finance, securities, trading, auctions, and travel will be described.

If you visit the IBA course description page, you notice that these students will not have any course on entrepreneurship. They do take a course in E-Business

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