"When someone is visiting China for any reason, language is the biggest barrier to effective communication," G-B Chinese Overseas Association official Abdul Rahman. PHOTO: WIKIPEDIA
The centre would help with distance-learning of Chinese in the country.
Minister of State for Education and Professional Training Engineer Balighur Rehman congratulated varsity over the agreement.
“This Confucius center should focus on distance-learning which AIOU is famous for. It should focus on E-learning to make it more viable,” Rehman suggested.
“Many of our workers, while working with Chinese people, run into the language barrier, so, in my opinion, a focus must be shifted towards courses on speaking Chinese for technical and vocational education in Pakistan.”
AIOU Vice Chancellor Professor Shahid Siddiqui said that Chinese language would play a pivotal role in near future due to the importance of CPEC in this region.
He gave a brief presentation on AIOU in which he mentioned that this year admission in the university had increased to 700,000 students. Moreover he mentioned that they would soon be opening a Chinese language center in Gawadar.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 16th, 2016.
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