Scholarships for Pakistani students Proposal to increase USAID scholarships to 5,000

Scholarships for Pakistani students

Proposal to increase USAID scholarships to 5,000
Lahore, Jan 26: Education Commission Chairman Dr Javaid R Leghari has said that the commission has submitted a proposal to increase the number of scholarships from 1,000 to 5,000 with the support of the USAID.

He stated this during his visit to the University of University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) here on Monday. He said the UVAS had become a centre of excellence, adding that it should act as a lead centre for the setting up new universities.

The HEC chairman asked the UVAS to offer its expertise for setting up more veterinary and animal sciences universities in other provinces which were necessary to tap the resources in the livestock and dairy development and agriculture sectors.

Dr Leghari said the universities' faculty must go for research and translate it into market economy instead of fulfilling the requirements of promotions and strengthening their curriculum vitae. He said the HEC would continue focusing on imparting quality education as well as producing quality faculty in universities.

UVAS Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Nawaz said his university would provide technical support for the setting up new universities. He said the UVAS was working for developing innovative technologies for strengthening national economy with the private sector's cooperation.

The VC said the university had transformed its teaching and assessment methods and research. He said the UVAS had triggered enormous faculty growth within three years and added that the number of faculty had increased from 77 to 226, while the number of PhDs faculty was increased from 23 to 77, and 97 faculty members were seeking higher education.

Dr Nawaz said he gave incentives to the faculty members who helped produce research papers published in journals whose number was one in 2006, 45 in 2007-08 and 72 in 2008-09. He said the university had developed kits to detect milk adulteration, molecular characterisation of Nili, Ravi and Nili Ravi buffalo breeds. He said the university was developing training and research centre for livestock marketing and developing dairy platform.

UVAS Vice-Chancellor under an MOU had been signed with a private firm which would provide the machinery worth Rs 50.5 millions to the UVAS Ravi Campus, Pattoki.

Ms Palwasha Khan, MNA, also attended the presentation given. Dean FVS, Prof Dr Muhammad Nasim, Dean FAP&T Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha, Dean Faculty of Bio Sciences Prof Dr Ijaz Ahmad, Dean FLSMB Prof Dr Muhammad Aleem, Dean FF&W Prof Dr Naureen Aziz Qureshi and UVAS Registrar Dr Kamran Ashraf also attended the presentation. Later, Dr Javed also visited the teaching departments of the UVAS