Mashallah. This is indeed very good news.
BEIJING, Aug 20 (APP) - To give final shape to Pakistan- China Science and Technology University, an eight-member high-level Chinese delegation of Ministry of Education is leaving for Pakistan next Monday.
The Chinese delegation being led by Deputy Director-General of Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges, Ministry of Education Jiang Feng during his visit will hold negotiations with senior government officials including Deputy Chairman Planning Commission and Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan.
The Counselor Technical Affairs Syed Ali Tallae while talking to APP here said that the visit is a breakthrough following threadbare discussion of Professor Dr. Attaur Rehman, Chairman HEC during his successful negotiations with Chinese officials for setting up, a world-class higher learning institution of Chinese Model in Pakistan when he visited Beijing last month.
“It is a concrete move on the part of China that a high level delegation is visiting Pakistan for this project”, he said. The project in the field of education, he said would also strengthen Sino-Pak Cooperative relations, he said.
He said that the Chinese delegation will also visit Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
In Karachi, they will visit NED University and the University being set up with French Cooperation. In Lahore, the delegation would visit University of Engineering and Technology.
To a question that where this Science and Technology University would be set up Syed Ali Tallae said that there were many sites for the University available including one in Mureedkay near Lahore and the second in Islamabad, besides one in Multan.
He said that it every university, being set up with foreign cooperation, was given two years time and same would be the time period for China.
To begin with, he said, the University will have five faculties to teach core subjects that included electrical, science and technology, computer sciences, etc. and with the passage of time they would be enhanced.
He said that the University will offer enrolment of 200 students every year. Syed Ali Tallae said as many as eighty professors would be required for the University and most of the teaching staff would come from China. He said that for ten years, the Vince Chancellor and Head of the Departments of the University would be from China, but Pakistani professors would also be inducted.
The other members of the delegation included Deputy Director-General of Department of Planning, Ministry of Education Song Demin, President of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication Lin Jintong, Director of Division of Policy and Planning, Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges Ministry of Education Xu Yongji, Director of Division of Asian and African Affairs Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges, Ministry of Education Xue Yanqing, Consultant of Division of Policy and Planning, Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges, Ministry of Education Dai Jiqiang, Director of President’s office, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication Geng Jina and Programme Officer, Division of Asian and African Affairs, Department of International cooperation and exchanges, Ministry of Education Zhao.