CPEC consortium of varsities from Monday

A two-day conference on academic collaboration will commence in the federal capital

A two-day conference on CPEC varsities to deliberate on academic collaboration will commence in the federal capital from Monday. The conference also includes a higher education, science, arts and technology exhibition by participating universities.

The third Annual Conference of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Consortium of Universities is being hosted by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) on the theme of ‘academic collaboration for sustainable partnerships’.

The objective of this conference is to review progress of academic collaborations among partner institutions, identify new areas of cooperation for development of human resource, expand academic linkages among the universities of the two countries, promote civilisational harmony and invigorate people-to-people contacts, explore joint research projects and areas of convergence.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 16^th, 2019.