Faisalabad: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad will launch a 'University Community College' where graduates and others will be equipped with technical and vocational education.
This was stated by UAF Vice-Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmed while talking to a USAID delegation that called on him at his office on Tuesday.
Briefing the delegates led by Director, USAID Punjab, Ms Beth Paige, Dr Ahmed said the community college would be established on the US model. He said the university had revived the FSc (pre-agriculture) system and about 400 would be enrolled this year.
He said in 1980 the cotton production was three million bales per annum but at the end of 2010, the country was able to obtain 12 million bales because of the efforts made by agriculturists and scientists. "In 1980's the poultry was standing no where but now it has become second major industry of Pakistan."
He said the university had strong relations with other institutes that could be gauged from the fact that the UAF signed 90 international MoUs and 20 national memorandums.
Ms Paige said USAID Fulbright Programme had sponsored 182 new students, including 78 women, and currently 75 Pakistanis were being supported by the programme.
"The programme has a 98 per cent return rate with 106 master-level graduates returning to Pakistan this year."
The delegates also met USAID scholarship holder students of the university at Old Senate Hall. She said over 3,000 education administrators and 12,000 teachers had been trained in management and teaching techniques to improve quality of education under USAID in Pakistan.
The delegates are: Dr Randy Hatfield, Asadullah Khan, Haroon Raheem, Karan Swaner, Kamran Niazi and Habibur Rehman.
She said continued support to 34 existing Pakistan-US collaborations between universities and higher education institutions had benefitted 1,400 Pakistani researchers and practitioners - 45 per cent of them were women. Dawn.
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