Special Assistant to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Information and Higher Education Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani on Sunday said that present provincial government had decided to establish fist ever technical university in Nowshera and Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Haripur to fulfil the industrial needs.
He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of new sites of Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology at Mang, district Haripur. He said that the project would be completed in seven years with a cost of Rs. 9.30 billion.
Ghani said the institute would offer dual degrees of the Austrian partner technical universities to its graduates. Starting this year up to 25 PhD faculties shall be sent to Austrian partner universities for two years training who, on return, shall serve the institute to best of their capabilities.
The Special Assistant mentioned that about 200 PhD level faculty members will be trained in Austria for the period of up to six years during phase 1, 2 and 3 under Human Resource Development programme, Scholars and faculty holding M.S/M.Phil or equivalent qualifications will be sent to Technical Universities in Austria for four years to obtain a PhD degree in the relevant discipline and then sent for further training for up to two years to the partner Fachhochschule for understanding the system of education being imparted, he added.
Ganni said that during his recent successful visit to Austria, an agreement regarding affiliation of University of Haripur with top five universities of Austria was signed.
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