MIRPUR (AJK): President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Masood Khan on late Thursday said that since the bright future of the nations was attached with the quality education, the AJK government was taking all requisite steps for its promotion and dispensation.
Masood Khan, also the Chancellor of the state controlled Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), was addressing the Senate of the Varsity.
The Senate meeting accorded formal approval of various items moved and discussed in line with the agenda items including those related to further improvement of studies besides those related to the welfare and uplift of the professional skills of the faculties.
Vice Chancellor MUST Prof Dr. Habib ur Rehman apprised the house of the efforts by the varsity to provide the quality education in over 22 disciplines of Science and Technology, Engineering as well as in General Science and Information Technology through the highly educated faculty of academicians in a conducive environment in line with the criteria determined by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and the global needs.
He said since the universities perform the basic role in the speedy progress and prosperity of the nations and the countries, the MUST use to review the quality of the syllabus keeping in view the needs of the modern era.
The MUST has primarily focused to produce the high quality graduates including those enriched with higher studies in various disciplines falling in science and technology so that they could perform their due role for the economic progress and prosperity through their high intellect and pen after completing their studies, he added.
He said the students will also have to be enriched with the due skills besides the degrees by focusing their full attention to be acquainted and benefitted of the quality education which the varsity was striving hard to deliver.
The VC said that the varsity management has focused to improve the teaching environment for the guidance of the students.
The meeting was attended by the members of the senate including Syed Shahid Muhi ud din, Secretary Higher Education AJK, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Khan from NDU, Islamabad, Prof. Dr. Riaz Hussain Qureshi, Representative of HEC from Islamabd, Engr. Nadeem Ashraf, G.M. Power Wing NESPAK, Dr. Muhamamd Riaz Mughal, Dean Engineering, MUST, Engr. Prof, Muhammad Shabir Mirza of Electrical Engineering Dept. (MUST), Munir Ahmed Ch. Director QEC, Dr. Zahoor Ahmed Syed Kashif Hussain Shah and others.
