Specialised education: Is Peshawar getting a COMSATS campus?
K-P special assistant on science and technology has made contact with varsity’s rector
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ISLAMABAD:
With the provincial government seeking to enhance educational options for science and technology, the Comsats University has been approached to set up a campus of the varsity in the provincial capital.
Comsats’ Rector Dr Raheel Qamar has been asked to extend his technical expertise in this regard.
Sources say Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology Kamran Bangash has apparently contacted Comsats Rector Dr Raheel Qamar and told him about the provincial government’s plan of promoting science and technology in the province and of setting up a campus for a modern science university in Peshawar.
Dr Qamar has reportedly ensured young Bangash of his full support for the provincial government and promised to facilitate.
Bangash was apparently swayed by his 13,000 followers on social media to set up a modern technology institute in the province.
Comsats currently has eight campuses around the country, including a virtual campus. One of these campuses is located in Abbottabad. As many as 35,000 students are enrolled in these campuses, including 600 foreigners and 100 students of Afghan origin.
Earlier, the former government in Balochistan had allotted 150 acres of land for setting up a campus of Comsats in Quetta. However, the project could not be completed because of funding issues from the Higher Education Commission (HEC). The shortage of funds also derailed a plan to set up a campus in Karachi even though the former chief secretary of Sindh had promised to allot 500 acres of land for setting up a campus.
The university, though, still harbours plans of building a campus in Ormara with support from the Pakistan Navy. The campus is expected to accommodate students from Balochistan and from the Middle East.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 24th, 2018.
With the provincial government seeking to enhance educational options for science and technology, the Comsats University has been approached to set up a campus of the varsity in the provincial capital.
Comsats’ Rector Dr Raheel Qamar has been asked to extend his technical expertise in this regard.
Sources say Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology Kamran Bangash has apparently contacted Comsats Rector Dr Raheel Qamar and told him about the provincial government’s plan of promoting science and technology in the province and of setting up a campus for a modern science university in Peshawar.
Dr Qamar has reportedly ensured young Bangash of his full support for the provincial government and promised to facilitate.
Bangash was apparently swayed by his 13,000 followers on social media to set up a modern technology institute in the province.
Comsats currently has eight campuses around the country, including a virtual campus. One of these campuses is located in Abbottabad. As many as 35,000 students are enrolled in these campuses, including 600 foreigners and 100 students of Afghan origin.
Earlier, the former government in Balochistan had allotted 150 acres of land for setting up a campus of Comsats in Quetta. However, the project could not be completed because of funding issues from the Higher Education Commission (HEC). The shortage of funds also derailed a plan to set up a campus in Karachi even though the former chief secretary of Sindh had promised to allot 500 acres of land for setting up a campus.
The university, though, still harbours plans of building a campus in Ormara with support from the Pakistan Navy. The campus is expected to accommodate students from Balochistan and from the Middle East.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 24th, 2018.