The exchange of bilateral co-operation and friendship linkage in the field of education between the educational institutions of Britain and Azad Jammu Kashmir will usher in the new era of the extension of quality studies in the educational institutions of Azad Jammu Kashmir.
This was stated by the eminent Kashmir born British educationist and chairman of UK-based Muslim Education Trust Dr Mohammad Salim while talking to APP over telephone from Britain's Laneshire city on Friday on his return from the official two-week-long trip of Azad Kashmir and Pakistan being member of a 4-men British Educationist team.
The tour was managed by his organisation with the co-ordination of the state-run The Oldham College for the promotion and exchange of co-operation in the field of education between various public-sector education institutions of Azad Kashmir and The Oldham College.
The four-member delegation of the British Educationists from Oldham city, successfully complete the trip of Azad Kashmir for establishing friendship linkage and affiliation with various colleges of Mirpur and Muzaffarabad and Azad Jammu Kashmir University, Dr Salim said.
He continued that the friendship linkage between various AJK colleges and The Oldham College will also provide opportunities to the intelligent boys and girls students to get higher studies in the reputed British education institution.
She appreciated the goodwill gesture and the proposed plan to exchange and promote the bilateral co-operation in the field of education through the formal friendship treaty between various AJK colleges.
The Oldham College, under the 3-pronged strategy evolved to materialise the comprehensive plan including the development partnership, exchange of teachers to promote and strengthen the professional skills of the teachers and lecturers through managing their bilateral tours and training programmes, grant of scholarships to the students hailing from AJK, establish linkage through internet linkage between the signatory colleges of the friendship treaty.
Dr Salim called upon the people to perform their responsibilities to improve the conditions of the educational institutions and to ensure the quality studies by the schools and colleges under the spirit of self help basis.
He particularly invited the philanthropists to contribute their due share for producing quality future architects of the nation through provision of high-standard studies.
He added that speedy progress in the field of education is imperative for the emergence of developed and healthy society besides for the overall prosperity of the country.
Meanwhile talking to APP here on Friday, conducting officer of the delegation and Political Co-ordinator of AJK Prime Minister for Overseas Kashmir Raja Nijabat Hussain said that the friendship linkage was being established between The Oldham college and various AJK colleges for the exchange of co-operation in various professional disciplines of education field.
The plan has been carved out with the co-ordination of various UK based welfare organisations of Kashmiri expatriates, which, he added, is aimed at to ensure the quality studies in AJK colleges through the provision of technical know-how and the computer equipment besides to provide opportunities of higher education in British colleges to the fellow-ship holding intelligent students of AJK, he said.
He said that under the friendship linkage, concerned colleges of Mirpur and Muzaffarabad will be permanently linked through internet with The Oldham college to exchange quick know-how about latest studies. Besides the required needs of the colleges will also be met, he added.
Raja Nijabat Hussain, also eminent leader of the UK-based Kashmiris thanked various educational institutions of UK including The Oldham college and various Britain-based non-governmental organisations for launching to plan to provide latest equipment including computers to the AJK institutions besides the scholarships to the intelligent AJK studies for higher studies in the UK colleges.
He said that through the proposed exchange and induction of qualified teachers from Azad Kashmir in the UK colleges, the British Kashmiri students will be benefited of the knowledge about their regional identity and the social and cultural and moral norms of their ancestors.
Nijabat, the political co-ordinator to the AJK Prime Minister for overseas Kashmiris, said that the Prime Minister Sardar Sikander Hayat-led Muslim Conference government has diverted a major portion of the state budget to raise the standard of education and to establish latest education system harmonious to the need of modern age in Azad Jammu Kashmir.
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