Scholarships: HEC, UNM sign agreement
HEC signed an agreement with UNM, USA to accept Pakistani students on scholarships in MS and PhD programs from 2013.
ISLAMABAD:
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has signed an agreement with the University of New Mexico (UNM), USA to accept Pakistani students on scholarships in MS leading to PhD and PhD programs from 2013. UNM President Dr Robert G Frank and Dr Riaz Hussain Qureshi of the HEC signed a memorandum of understanding in this regard on Sunday. HEC Media Manager Murtaza Noor said that under the agreement, students will be allowed to enrol in social and natural sciences; however, the agreement will soon be expanded to include all major disciplines such as to engineering and technology and management sciences. The scholarships will be funded by the HEC, he added. “We hope that this mutual cooperation will have fruitful results in the field of higher education,” HEC Human Resource Development Director Dr Riaz Hussain Qureshi remarked.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2012.
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