GCU and USA University sign MoU

The Government College University (GCU) Lahore and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA have signed the inter-institutional memorandum on academic and research collaboration linkage. According to the agreement there would be great opportunity to materialise the dream to transform GCU into a real world class institution.
GCU vice-chancellor, Professor Dr Khalid Aftab revealed this while addressing the faculty members here on Wednesday. Both the universities have agreed to explore co-operation in joint educational programmes and research projects, especially, in the fields of computer science, information technology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, biological science, economics, business and management studies, political science, English, education, and linguistics as well as other areas of mutual interest.
Under the memorandum, the universities will encourage direct contacts and co-operation between their faculty members, departments, institutes and academic planning staff. Both the universities have also agreed to investigate the feasibility of establishing mutually beneficial collaborative research projects between departments and individual faculty members, he added.
Joint supervision of doctoral research students between the interested faculty members on both sides, assistance in provision of research equipment/ instruments, research literature and library resource material, short-term exchange visits of the academic planning and academic quality improvement/ assessment staff, holding of joint workshops and symposia, co-operation in technology transfer, especially in computer science, electronics and information technology, and training of the university administrative staff for high quality service are the part of this initiative, he maintained.
He further said that 17 world class mathematicians from France, Russia, Germany, UK and USA were already serving at the GCU, four highly qualified foreign faculty members had recently been added to different departments and the process of arrival of four more foreign professors would be completed very soon.