via Pakistan Observer
Peshawar—Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak Thursday expressed firm resolve to utilize all available resources for promotion of higher education for females in the province. Addressing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University (SBBWU) Peshawar here, he said all kinds of facilities will be pro-vided to Women Universities in KP.
He said the provincial government is committed to providing equal right of education to female; therefore it has established two Women Universities each in Swabi and Mardan districts. On this occasion CM announced construction of new academic block, auditorium, sports grounds, and road for SBBWU Peshawar and also promised to provide gas connection to the university.
Earlier, he witnessed signing of MoU by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University (SBBWU) with eight women universities of the Pakistan including Fatama Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi, Government College Women University Faisalabad, Sardar Bahdur Khan Women University Quetta, Women University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Bagh, Women University Multan, Government College Women University Sialkot, Lahore College for Women University Lahore and Kinnaird College Lahore.
Heads of all the universities attended the signed ceremony that was aimed to strengthen the collaboration among the female universities for joint research and publications of scientific papers and educational materials. Addressing the participants, Vice Chancellor SBBWU Prof, Dr Razia Sultana under the MoU the universities would shard the courses, graduate and undergraduate students for internships and fellowships and exchange of faculty, trainees and staff as to be deemed appropriate.
She said that the other objectives of the MoU included co-hosting of lectures, holding of joint meeting, seminars, symposia and conferences and exchange of materials, publications and other information within limits of legal rules and regulations. Addressing the ceremony Minister for Information and Higher Education Minister said the government is mulling to set up Pakistan’s first Technical University in the province.
He said the university would help the students to get training of their own business and skill for technical work at higher educational level. He said that paperwork for setting up of the Technical University have been complete soon the implementation phase would start. He said the main focus of provincial government is to promote higher education and provide facilities to universities for quality education and research work.
He said the government is ready to financially support the public sector universities but the varsities’ administrations would have to ensure no extra appointments, adding that the extra appointments exert pressure on government exchequer. Ghani further said the government intends to provide funds for research work and innovations because it is the need of the hour.
Referring to education for special children, he said the provincial government has already decided to facilitate the special person with free of cost education at school, colleges and universities levels. Besides, he said that other facilities including ramp and special toilets would be ensured at the educational institutions for special person.
The Minister said KP government is considering to give a stipend of Rs 1000 per month to poor deserving students who cannot afford their higher educational expense, adding that the initiative is in progress. Earlier, he appreciated the signing of MoU of SBBWU Peshawar with other public sector universities of the country MoU for collaborations in joint research and publications of scientific papers and educational materials. He said the effort would bring all universities together and provide them an opportunity to get benefit from the experiences and expertise of each other.
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