FAISALABAD City News

Summer Working Opportunity plan
UAF students to get training, financial help
From Our Correspondent
FAISALABAD: The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, is going to launch a Students Summer Working Opportunity Programme aiming at providing hands on training, and financial assistance to its students.
It was revealed in a Deans’ Committee meeting with UAF Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan in the chair at Syndicate Hall on Monday.
Addressing the participants, the VC said this massive campaign will pave the way to capacity building and leadership development among varsity students. He was of the view that scholars are supposed to prepare themselves for future challenges that is why varsity is providing them a platform with incentive.
The VC said that summer paid working facility would be extended to more than 5,000 students as ORIC is going to launch a massive campaign on the issue. Dean’s committee also reviewed the new admission policy for undergraduate degree programmes and impact of entrance test for encouraging students’ intake those have love and motivation with the sector. The VC described the Faculty Exchange Programme with University of California Davis US a unique opportunity, saying that for 100 slots, the administration would encourage the young faculty members who did not visit US so as to enable them make a strong professional linkages.
He said new phase of entry test would be commenced in the first week of June. He urged the Faculty of Engineering to launch a Bio-System Engineering Degree Programme as the CAS offers such opportunity of launching new degree programmes. The VC said Planning Commission of Pakistan is investing Rs 250 million on IT infrastructure development at campus. He urged the deans to ask their students submit their applications for open scholarship under ICDD and DAAD programmes and added that DAAD country director is scheduled to visit UAF shortly with plenty of scholarships for graduate students.