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Pakistan’s leading varsities to set up campuses in UAE
DUBAI - Two leading Pakistani universities have initiated the process to set up their sub-campuses in the UAE, Azam Khan Swati, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Science and Technology, told Khaleej Times during a visit to the UAE.
National University of Science and Technology (NUST) ranks among the top 300 universities worldwide, and COMSATS University of Science and Technology has 17,000 students in its 7 campuses in Pakistan.
Some 80 to 85 per cent students of these universities get jobs before graduation due to their high standard of education, the minister said.
Swati discussed the initiative with Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in Abu Dhabi during the visit in the presence of prominent businessman Hussain Al Sajwani and Pakistan embassy officials. “The process has been initiated and we are moving forward,” Swati said.
The two ministers discussed bilateral cooperation ties and ways to boost them, specially in the areas of technology. They exchanged views on the UAE and Pakistani experiences in the fields of technological and scientific education.
He said that COMSATS in collaboration with Lancaster University UK has launched Dual Degree Programme enabling the willing students to obtain a degree simultaneously from high-ranking international and national university.
Swati said Pakistan also wanted to encourage UAE students to acquire quality higher education in Pakistan at an affordable price. “Our standard of education is comparable to international, we have state-of-the-art hostels, a secure environment and the cost is seven times lower,” he said.
He said Pakistan is awarding PhDs in advanced disciplines like nano technology, biotechnology, advanced materials, computer science and social sciences.
Swati said that preparation of a new science policy was in its final stages and would be announced by the end of the year.
The restructuring of his ministry is also underway. “This is a complicated process, the ministry has 15 departments, we want to make them self sufficient through private-public partnership,” Swati said.
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