Pakistan-Kyrgyzstan Ties: Islamabad to cooperate for education
Pakistan and the Kyrgyz Republic to jointly formulate a mechanism for admission of students in each other’s country.
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan and the Kyrgyz Republic will jointly formulate a mechanism for admission of students in each other’s country. This was decided in a meeting between Kuban Toktorbaev, Kyrgyz Ambassador to Pakistan, who called on Executive Director Higher Education Commission Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, at the HEC Secretariat on Tuesday. The meeting decided to enhance coordination to understand each other’s education system and further increase the eligibility criteria for students’ admission especially for medical students in the Kyrgyz Republic. Local Kyrgyz universities will be encouraged to devise and introduce an entry test for admission. Opportunities will also be explored to enable students to complete a six-month course, both in English and Russian languages.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2013.
Pakistan and the Kyrgyz Republic will jointly formulate a mechanism for admission of students in each other’s country. This was decided in a meeting between Kuban Toktorbaev, Kyrgyz Ambassador to Pakistan, who called on Executive Director Higher Education Commission Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, at the HEC Secretariat on Tuesday. The meeting decided to enhance coordination to understand each other’s education system and further increase the eligibility criteria for students’ admission especially for medical students in the Kyrgyz Republic. Local Kyrgyz universities will be encouraged to devise and introduce an entry test for admission. Opportunities will also be explored to enable students to complete a six-month course, both in English and Russian languages.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2013.