President Arif Alvi urges universities to focus on R&D activities

• President stated that hiring qualified, committed and professional faculty was of paramount importance for imparting the latest knowledge
• He made these remarks while chairing a follow-up meeting on the National University of Modern Languages
• He emphasized that universities should adopt innovative and creative techniques to increase the number of students

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has called upon the universities to focus on Research and Development activities to produce quality and skilled manpower, which was needed for expeditious socio-economic development of the country.

The President stated that hiring qualified, committed and professional faculty was of paramount importance for imparting the latest knowledge and for the intellectual development of the graduates.

He made these remarks while chairing a follow-up meeting on the National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

He emphasized that universities should adopt innovative and creative techniques to increase the number of students and graduates by adopting hybrid and online teaching methodologies. He emphasized that all stakeholders in the education sector should further improve their intellectual and psychological skill set, and embrace policies, rules and regulations compatible with the market-driven needs of educational institutions and the students to meet the exponentially increasing market demand for skilled Human Resources, especially in the IT sector.

President said that education was the biggest resource for socio-economic development, therefore, we should train and educate our youth both female and male to empower them financially and economically.

He expressed his concern over the brain drain witnessed by the country in the previous years. He underscored that we should also make all possible efforts to keep our educated youth within the country by providing equitable opportunities.

The President emphasized that as per the requirement of the market, universities should offer two years Associate Degree Courses or appropriate diploma courses for those sectors where the market needed.

He highlighted the importance of learning international languages which, he said, provided means for enriching insight and wisdom through literature, science and other knowledge produced in these languages.

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