Students urged to link theoretical ideas with practical world approach

Two-day "Youth Entrepreneurs Festival 2015" organized by the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Sindh Jamshoro in order to create awareness among the newly admitted students of Business Administration concluded here on Sunday.
It stressed the students to link their theoretical ideas with the practical approach.
Dean Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration Professor Dr Noor Muhammad Jamali, Director of IBA Professor Dr Imamuddin Khoso participated in the concluding ceremony and appreciated the efforts made by students and faculty members on organising such an enormous entrepreneur's festival.
A large number of students from various departments of Sindh University, Mehran Engineering University, Liaquat Medical University Jamshoro, ISRA University Hyderabad, University of Karachi, Quaid-e-Awam Engineering Nawabshah, Iqra University Karachi and IBA Karachi participated in the festival.
A total number of 24 stalls were set up by the students of business administration to display their works and present them for sale while each stall earned Rs 15 thousand to 28 thousand every day.
Addressing the concluding ceremony of the festival, Director IBA, University of Sindh Professor Dr Imamuddin Khoso congratulated the students & faculty members for their countless efforts in organising the festival in befitting manner.
He said, "Today, IBA has achieved another milestone by organising the Entrepreneur's Festival on the Campus. In 2014, the IBA had organized an international conference on Business & Economic which was admired by the participants."
He said that it was necessary to pay heed towards practical work except studying theoretical subjects. He hoped that the festival will help students increase their professional skills.
Dr Khoso said that entrepreneur's festival provided a platform to the students to link their theoretical ideas with the practical world approach, adding that it also helped students to reveal their innovation and creativity.
"Through these sorts of festivals, the students develop their entrepreneur's skills by expressing their new business ideas. I am sure this festival will also encourage the girls to involve themselves into the business activities by contributing their efforts and resources in different industries like textile, garments & other business etc" he maintained.
Dr Khoso said such entrepreneur's festivals will boost the Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) conceptualisation of the students to be the owner of their own bread and butter.
On the occasion, the organiser of the festival Sami Shaikh said that the festival also attracted the people belonging to different walks of life specially females and children to visit the stalls of students and that how they sold out their products.
"I am very delighted that our students have set the various entrepreneur businesses stalls in the youth entrepreneur festival on the campus with its stellar line-up of innovative business," Shaikh said.