Governor Sindh Mohammad Zubair has said that quality higher education was the basis for prosperity in every sphere of life and that it promotes an era of accelerated progress for any country.
This he said while addressing the national research programme for universities award distribution ceremony at Governor House here on Friday.
Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, and Vice Chancellors of various universities also attended the programme.
Governor Sindh said that education imparts values such as knowledge, wisdom and recognition to a person and it guides and leads such person towards path of success.
Higher education and research play fundamental role in building resources and promoting talent, he added.
Mohammad Zubair said that research is the most vital ingredient of any development recipe as it not only provide solution to existing problems but also open new avenues of knowledge and learning.
Availability of modern labs, high tech testing equipment and regularly upgraded IT networks are essentials components of research and productivity, he opined.
He said that education not only prepare a person to face the world with utmost courage but also enrich him with the qualities such as tolerance, patience and co-existence. It was unfortunate that intolerance has reached to a level in our society that we are prepared to forcibly impose our thoughts and ideology on others, he observed and said that promotion of quality higher education could end that sort of behaviour.
He said that many youngsters prefer to go to the United States of America for higher education only for the reason that it encourages research at every level. Its Universities are well known to induct budding researches from the globe and 90 % of such researchers never leave USA and hence contribute toward the development of American Society to another level.
While lauding the role of Higher Education Commission in promoting especially research at Universities, Governor Sindh said that it was commendable effort of HEC that the published research papers of Pakistanis which were only 800 in 2002, reached to 12,000 during last year.
He said that future of a nation heavily depends on quality and competence of the human resource. There was an urgent need to prepare curriculum according to the new research in various fields of science and arts to produce competent and capable human resource, he added.
He also urged upon the Universities to prioritize research oriented education not only to resolve country’s problems but also to prepare our youth to the bigger challenges of competing successfully at international level.
He said that we all have to promote and showcase the positive activities being carried out on all fronts, as it would depict a soft image of Pakistan to the international community.
The role of media was very pivotal in this regard as people get motivated and inspired by the reporting of events, he observed.
This he said while addressing the national research programme for universities award distribution ceremony at Governor House here on Friday.
Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, and Vice Chancellors of various universities also attended the programme.
Governor Sindh said that education imparts values such as knowledge, wisdom and recognition to a person and it guides and leads such person towards path of success.
Higher education and research play fundamental role in building resources and promoting talent, he added.
Mohammad Zubair said that research is the most vital ingredient of any development recipe as it not only provide solution to existing problems but also open new avenues of knowledge and learning.
Availability of modern labs, high tech testing equipment and regularly upgraded IT networks are essentials components of research and productivity, he opined.
He said that education not only prepare a person to face the world with utmost courage but also enrich him with the qualities such as tolerance, patience and co-existence. It was unfortunate that intolerance has reached to a level in our society that we are prepared to forcibly impose our thoughts and ideology on others, he observed and said that promotion of quality higher education could end that sort of behaviour.
He said that many youngsters prefer to go to the United States of America for higher education only for the reason that it encourages research at every level. Its Universities are well known to induct budding researches from the globe and 90 % of such researchers never leave USA and hence contribute toward the development of American Society to another level.
While lauding the role of Higher Education Commission in promoting especially research at Universities, Governor Sindh said that it was commendable effort of HEC that the published research papers of Pakistanis which were only 800 in 2002, reached to 12,000 during last year.
He said that future of a nation heavily depends on quality and competence of the human resource. There was an urgent need to prepare curriculum according to the new research in various fields of science and arts to produce competent and capable human resource, he added.
He also urged upon the Universities to prioritize research oriented education not only to resolve country’s problems but also to prepare our youth to the bigger challenges of competing successfully at international level.
He said that we all have to promote and showcase the positive activities being carried out on all fronts, as it would depict a soft image of Pakistan to the international community.
The role of media was very pivotal in this regard as people get motivated and inspired by the reporting of events, he observed.
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