SMIU, four Chinese universities to establish Sindh-Hainan Educational Forum

Four Chinese universities of Hainan province and Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU) have agreed to establish "Sindh-Hainan Educational Forum" under China and Pakistan partnership. Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh, Vice Chancellor of Sindh Madressatul Islam University, who led a five-member delegation to Hainan province on the invitation of the Chinese government, stated this while chairing a meeting of senior management of SMIU, here on Thursday.
The Chinese universities included Hainan University, Hainan Normal University, Haiku, which specializes in teachers training and education with about 25,000 students, Hainan Tropical Occasion University, which was formally known as Qiongzhou University in Sanya with special focus on maritime and coastal areas disciplines and Sanya University, which is a private sector top ranking university of China, would be a part of this forum.
Dr Shaikh said that China has about 1000 public sector universities and about 600 private sector universities. He said SMIU delegation visited the universities in Hainan province which are most developed and offered state-of the art laboratories and other academic facilities. He said that there is much to learn from China in the sphere of higher education.
Dr Shaikh said that Sindh Madressatul Islam University in collaboration with four Chinese universities is organising a seminar on "Hainan-Sindh Cooperation" from April 11 to 13, which would be attended by high-level delegations from the Chinese universities. During the seminar each of the guest university will give detailed presentation about their academic and research facilities and admission procedures to the academic heads, faculty and interested students highlighting the admission procedure etc.
He said this seminar will bring closer both the provinces (Sindh in Pakistan and Hainan in China) to work together for the betterment of the people of two brotherly nations especially with reference to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The meeting was attended by deans, chairpersons, registrar, director finance and other officials.