Facilities and Examination
The college building has adequate facilities for lecture, tutorial and discussion
rooms, apart from a computing laboratory. It also has a lecture hall, library, art
room, staff room, students’ common rooms and prayer room.
Alan Bicker Library is an essential resource for learning, teaching and research
and the college is committed to maintaining an adequate stock of books. The initial
efforts are necessarily focused on acquiring textbooks, newspapers, general reference
titles and journals for the subjects taught. For security reasons some books and
all journals classified as reference material is confined to the college. The library
is also a quiet study space available during working hours. The library catalogue
is computerized and students can search for a book in the library computer. There
is also a collection of educational CDs that students can consult for their subjects.
Computing plays an important role across the curriculum. The College has a Local
Area Network with more than 25 workstations for advanced teaching, word processing,
internet research work and printing. Students have access to free Internet facility
at the college. The college is also centre for computer based examinations for intermediate
papers of CAT.
The college Student Society is the focus of students’ social activities. All students
are members of the Society that is run by elected representatives of the students.
The Society holds meetings to discuss its programme. The student society manages
sports and entertainment activities which are managed entirely by students. It organizes
social, religious and fundraising events. The Student Council has several societies:
Islamic, debating, law, poetry, literary, dramatic and cricket, basketball teams
and many more.
Examination papers for all the subjects taught at UCI are a set by the University
of London or ACCA or the Organization of Tourism & Hospitality Management, and administered
by the British Council in Islamabad. Papers are taken in Islamabad and are marked
in the UK. Results are usually announced after two or three months.