AGL 40.00 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
AIRLINK 129.06 Decreased By ▼ -0.47 (-0.36%)
BOP 6.75 Increased By ▲ 0.07 (1.05%)
CNERGY 4.49 Decreased By ▼ -0.14 (-3.02%)
DCL 8.55 Decreased By ▼ -0.39 (-4.36%)
DFML 40.82 Decreased By ▼ -0.87 (-2.09%)
DGKC 80.96 Decreased By ▼ -2.81 (-3.35%)
FCCL 32.77 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
FFBL 74.43 Decreased By ▼ -1.04 (-1.38%)
FFL 11.74 Increased By ▲ 0.27 (2.35%)
HUBC 109.58 Decreased By ▼ -0.97 (-0.88%)
HUMNL 13.75 Decreased By ▼ -0.81 (-5.56%)
KEL 5.31 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-1.48%)
KOSM 7.72 Decreased By ▼ -0.68 (-8.1%)
MLCF 38.60 Decreased By ▼ -1.19 (-2.99%)
NBP 63.51 Increased By ▲ 3.22 (5.34%)
OGDC 194.69 Decreased By ▼ -4.97 (-2.49%)
PAEL 25.71 Decreased By ▼ -0.94 (-3.53%)
PIBTL 7.39 Decreased By ▼ -0.27 (-3.52%)
PPL 155.45 Decreased By ▼ -2.47 (-1.56%)
PRL 25.79 Decreased By ▼ -0.94 (-3.52%)
PTC 17.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.96 (-5.2%)
SEARL 78.65 Decreased By ▼ -3.79 (-4.6%)
TELE 7.86 Decreased By ▼ -0.45 (-5.42%)
TOMCL 33.73 Decreased By ▼ -0.78 (-2.26%)
TPLP 8.40 Decreased By ▼ -0.66 (-7.28%)
TREET 16.27 Decreased By ▼ -1.20 (-6.87%)
TRG 58.22 Decreased By ▼ -3.10 (-5.06%)
UNITY 27.49 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (0.22%)
WTL 1.39 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.72%)
BR100 10,445 Increased By 38.5 (0.37%)
BR30 31,189 Decreased By -523.9 (-1.65%)
KSE100 97,798 Increased By 469.8 (0.48%)
KSE30 30,481 Increased By 288.3 (0.95%)

One hundred and thirty six scholarships have been conferred to the needy students of public sector universities under the scheme "HEC-JICA need-based Scholarships" bringing the total number of these scholarships to 1150.
In this connection, a meeting of the Scholarship Management Committee was held at the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Secretariat on Monday and attended by focal persons of eleven participating universities.
Suleman Abdiah represented Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) on the occasion while Professor Dr Sohail Naqvi, Executive Director, HEC and Jalil Ahmed, Adviser, Monitoring and Evaluation, HEC represented the Commission. The focal persons presented the cases of needy students along with the media strategies to communicate the Scheme. They also gave details about their future plans and shared the successive stories with the Committee.
Dr Naqvi, who is also Chairman of the Committee, stressed the need to improve the public private partnership. He said that the institutions should involve alumnae, philanthropists of their areas, introduction of need-based scholarships by multinational corporations.
The participating universities included Institute of Management Sciences (IMS) Peshawar, University of Punjab, Lahore, NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar, University of Peshawar, Gomal University, D.I. Khan, University of Sargodha, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, FAST, Islamabad, Bahria University, Islamabad.
Donor agencies like JICA and USAID have stepped forward to support the higher education sector. Two separate programmes worth one billion rupees to support 2,500 students were initiated by the HEC. The main idea behind this initiative is to provide quality education accessible to those talented students who cannot afford the cost of higher studies in Pakistan just because of financial crises.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2008

Comments

Comments are closed.