Leaders of higher education institutions in Pakistan visiting the United States will play a pivotal role in promoting people to people contacts and educational linkages between Pakistan and the United States. They would also project the shared soft power of the two countries.
Ambassador Masood Khan made these remarks while addressing the Vice Chancellors of nine (9) public sector universities who are visiting Washington DC under the US supported Higher Education System Strengthening Activity (HESSA) Project. This is a$19 million project which has been awarded to the University of Utah by USAID/ Pakistan to support delivery of high-quality education and research by public sector universities of Pakistan.
Ambassador Masood Khan said that the US universities have established their leadership in natural and social sciences as well as cutting edge technologies from which countries around the world have benefitted. Pakistan’s relationship with American universities, he said, dated back to the 1950s and 1960s when Pakistani academics were trained in the US in the STEM disciplines as well as social sciences. “That legacy survives up to this day”, he said adding that many of the Vice Chancellors in Pakistani public sector universities had received higher education in the United States’ prestigious universities. “These relationships would be strengthened in the years to come and HESSA is a very good vehicle for that purpose”, he said.
The Ambassador said that Pakistan higher...
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