Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Margaret Adamson visited US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Water (USPCAS-W) at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro and met with USPCAS-W and MUET officials at vice chancellor secretariat on Friday. She said that she is very much delighted that academia and researchers are working on water sector of Pakistan and water research centre is established at Mehran University.
She said that Australia is very much committed to have academic collaboration on water sector of this region and have future joint ventures on water related applied research. The high commissioner said that six Australian universities have signed partnership documents with Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan for academic collaboration by providing scholarships and capacity building of faculty and students of public sector universities of the country.
She appreciated the efforts of MUET for its role and ranking for imparting quality education and research across the country. She mentioned that Australia also supports some of schools of Pakistan by providing technical and academic support. The high commissioner also said that there are many sectors in which Australia and Pakistan can work together for academic excellence, exchange programmes, curricula reforms, water security and water governance.
On behalf of Vice Chancellor MUET, Acting Vice Chancellor Dr Ghous Bux Khaskheli while briefing to Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan said that MUET in HEC ranking of 2015 got second number in public sector engineering universities of the country and also MUET is engaged in academic research to bridge the social and capital gap.