Australian High Commissioner Peter Heyward and AEO Chief Executive Officer Saad Mehmood talk to students (left); who obtain information about education in Australia at the expo. PHOTO: EXPRESS
The AEO Australian Education Expo attracted droves of students from twin cities.
The students got updates about admission procedures of 16 universities in Australia, United Kingdom and Malaysia.
Helen Nuttall, who had set up a desk representing the La Trobe University of Melbourne, said the response from the visiting people was quite encouraging.
“Most of the students are seeking information about scholarships, cost of living and fee structure,” she said.
Australian High Commissioner Peter Heyward said, “I am delighted that the AEO Education Expo is providing a platform for prospective students to explore their study options in Australia. Many international students choose Australia for their higher-education studies because of the excellent reputation of Australian educational institutions.”
Muhammad Nadir, who had come from University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, said that he was there to learn more about the programmes options at top Australian universities.
Ahmad Ali, who has just completed his bachelors of engineering from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), said that he was seeking to study in Australia after hearing good things from some class fellows who went there earlier.
AEO Chief Executive Officer and Resident Director Saad Mehmood said over 300 students visited the event.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 14th, 2014.
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Pakistani Students have much potential and talented. So I think they should avail such kind of opportunities.
Hurry up young people. Strive now and leave this country before your new overlords, the fundamentalists completely make this country a Mullahcracy and ban flights to western countries in the name of religion. Our students excel at top academies all over the world, and venture at the very forefront of progress. But more than their academic and professional forte, they invigorate a rational, broad-minded and enlightened attitude. They tend to be more vocal about human rights, equality and gender issues awareness. Because they witness how individuals can foster change in themselves and their communities abroad, they seek inspiration from it. They learn the beauty of multiculturalism and pluralism and I have witnessed them actively participate in it. For most of them, religious diversity is something to cherish, not something to spread hate and malice over. Cultural heterogeneity is to be celebrated , not to harbor ill-will and malcontent over. Yet they can't bring the same change in their own motherland. And as things head into the direction of another Al-Bakistan in place of Pakistan, no one can blame them for it. They face a monster, charged with self-anointed religious and sectarian fervor, for whom the only right path is their path, and for whom the life of a child, a woman, a man, an elderly amounts to less than nothing, if their will is challenged. So hurry up little birds, fly away and build your own nest in greener pastures. Because this one's about to slip into the abyss. And no one will mourn for it. No one will be left behind for it.