US govt invests $9m in academic programmes

US Mission to Pakistan supports it by providing access to finance, improved workforce and development skills

LAHORE: The US Government has partnered with nine different universities in Punjab, investing $9 million in the US-Pakistan Academic Linkages Programmes. Recognising the link between economy and higher education, the US Mission to Pakistan supports it by providing access to finance, improved workforce, development skills, encouraging use of new technology and management practices.

This was said by US Council-General in Lahore Yuriy Fedkiw during a conference on the theme: Innovation and Internationalisation in Pakistani Higher Education. While addressing the inaugural session, Yuriy Fedkiw said the US Government supported academic linkages between UMT and GMU for the purpose of faculty development.

He said the US Mission in Pakistan wanted to help universities in improving curriculum and develop faculty for better professional results.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 21^st, 2017.