ISLAMABAD: Education and Professional Training Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain purposed faculty and student exchange programme and scholarships for students with Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP).

Talking to delegation of Oxford Pakistan Programme comprising Chairman HEC Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed and AS Waseem Chaudhry Minister said that government is putting great emphasis on promotion of quality education including higher education.

There is great potential in Pakistani students, for exceptional Pakistani students to study at Oxford there is need to establish number of scholarships, especially for women at Lady Margret Hall which is traditionally women’s college.

There should be faculty and student exchange, scholarships for students, sharing of information and experiences about each other’s academic’s policies and initiatives, organisation of seminars and conferences, short-term training, capacity building of staff and reciprocal visits of officials.

Rana Tanveer was briefed OPP has three core objectives to address under-representation of Pakistani and British Pakistani students at University of Oxford; to promote academic exchange between Oxford University and Pakistan’s institutions of higher learning and to broaden academic conversations on Pakistan beyond narrow remits of security and geopolitics.

Rana Tanveer said that Pakistan has around 64 percent youth with substantial potential to support all key sectors of economy by developing human capital.

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 14 2022

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