President urges universities to provide quality education to students 

• Addressing Convocation ceremony of Quaid-i-Azam University.
• He urged HEC to support universities for designing courses.
• He said over 24 million children were presently out of school.

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi stressed the universities to provide quality education to the students as it was the foremost requirement for the development of the country.

He urged the education ministry and Higher Education Commission (HEC) to support universities in designing the courses and departments in accordance with demand of jobs in the market.

Addressing the Convocation ceremony of the Quaid-i-Azam University here, the president said Pakistan was passing difficult economic situation but hoped that the country would rise again soon by ensuring quality education, rule of law and justice. “Pakistan has full potential to develop and the sun of development and prosperity would rise in the country soon,” he remarked.

During the ceremony, the president gave away medals to the top position holders and conferred degrees to the successful students in various departments of the university. Referring to shortage of professionals especially in medical field in the country, the president said that the female professional should contribute in the society after completing their degree.

However, he stressed the need to provide them harassment free environment at work places so that they could work freely. The president said that over 24 million children were presently out of school. He said that the government would need almost 55000 more schools to educate these children but we should make all efforts to educate these children.

Comparing the regional statistics, the president highlighted that in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, around 98% of the children were enrolled in schools. He said the mosques could be utilized for providing education besides use of latest technology, especially online education, to educate the children.

He asked the universities to start 2-year associate degree programmes for the students as the market was demanding skilled based professionals. He said that globally around 56% of the total cyber security professionals were working without 4-year degrees in the field.

Caretaker Minister for Federal Education Madad Ali Sindhi on the occasion said the government was promoting education at every level. He said he had directed to provide all basic facilities to the schools in Islamabad as without basic facilities, the quality of education could not be improved.

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Vice Chancellor Quaid-i-Azam University Prof. Dr. Niaz Ahmad Akhtar said in total 7,738 BS, MS, M.Phill and Ph.D students were awarded degrees in the convocation.