President for establishing community colleges to meet educational & skill requirements

Government of PakistanPresident for establishing community colleges to meet educational & skill requirements

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: President Dr. Arif Alvi has underlined the need for establishing community colleges to meet the educational and skill requirements of the Country.

While chairing a follow-up meeting on the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad on Thursday, the president said that Pakistan was facing a shortage of skilled workforce and higher educational and technical institutions needed to focus on the skill development of human resources.

In the meeting, the Rector NUML Major General (retd) Muhammad Jaffer gave a presentation about the role of the University in the promotion of higher education in the Country.

The Rector NUML informed that the University was introducing the conceptual approach to learning so as to inculcate critical and analytical thinking skills among students. He apprised that 22,000 students were currently studying in different disciplines.

Major General (retd) Muhammad also highlighted the measures taken for the development of IT infrastructure, integration of IT in language learning and translation, and the promotion of high-quality research.

President Arif Alvi said that the world had shifted to the online mode of education and the educational institutions needed to extensively invest in developing their IT infrastructure to promote online education.

The president underlined the need for increasing the quantum of online education and the number of virtual classes to reduce the cost of education, particularly for students belonging to far-flung areas of the Country.

The president asked the management of the university to take steps for the preservation and revival of dying languages.

Dr. Arif Alvi also appreciated the research initiatives taken by the University as well as the steps taken to develop IT infrastructure.

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