Nasreen Mahmud Kasuri Chairperson
Mr. Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
Mr. Kasim Mahmud Kasuri
Dr. Parvez Hassan
Mr. Shamim S. Khan
Mr. Hussain Dawood
Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Rector, Lahore School of Economics, Lahore. Prof. Dr. Ikram-ul-Haq, Acting Vice Chancellor, GC University, Lahore
Secretary Higher Education, Government of Punjab, Lahore. In this immensely competitive and dynamic world, qualitati
vely superior education is an imperative for success. Over the years, higher education has assumed a pivotal role in the development of the required acumen of the students to better equip them to meet the emerging challenges. Universities and higher education institutions are thriving social and cultural centres with much to offer students of any age, nationality or social background. A modern university aims to provide its students with a wide array of courses and degrees to choose from, according to their embedded career interests and aptitudes. At Beaconhouse National University (BNU), we offer our students broad-based education in which a student studies a variety of different subjects in order to gain a better working knowledge of the world around him or herself, thus preparing them for a lifetime of opportunities and challenges. BNU is the first Liberal Arts University of Pakistan. Chartered by the Government of Punjab, the BNU, was established in 2003 for the purpose of imparting education with a modern and rational course content while ensuring that the history and culture of Pakistani society are respected. BNU is planned as a non‑profit, private university disseminating learning and encouraging research in diverse areas where the essential focus of the programs offered has been determined by the type of the work force identified for the future economic, business, academic, cultural and technological advancement of the country. As such, BNU offers students a range of subject areas which are of immense relevance to the country’s economy. Over the years, Liberal Arts education has assumed a vital role. One armchair philosopher once said, "When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." All knowledge is one, a unified wholeness, and every field of study is but a piece or an angle or a way of partitioning this knowledge. Thus, to see how one's chosen area fits into the whole, to see the context of one's study, we at BNU believe, liberal education is not merely desirable, but necessary. The diverse body of knowledge that a student gains at BNU, together with the tools of examination and analysis that one learns to use, will enable him or her to develop opinions, attitudes, values, and beliefs, based not upon authority or ignorance, whim, or prejudice, but upon ones own worthy evaluation of argument and evidence. We foster the development of an active engagement with knowledge, and not just the passive reception of facts.
