President Dr Arif Alvi Tuesday directed the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to chalk out an implementation plan over the Online Distance Learning (ODL) policy at the earliest.
Underlining the importance of virtual education, the president said universities should increase the component of virtual education, so that a maximum number of students could benefit from the cheaper mode of learning.
He made these remarks during a briefing on the National University of Technology (NUTECH), Islamabad at Aiwan-e-Sadr.
The meeting was attended by the faculty members of NUTECH, HEC representatives, and senior government officials. President Alvi said the universities were required to focus on skill development and IT (information technology) to overcome the technological gap and put the country on the fast track of development.
He further emphasised upon the need for promoting international skills in collaboration with the foreign universities and training institutes, which would greatly help in the learning and professional development of the country’s workforce.
Rector Lt. Gen. (retd) Khalid Asghar briefed the meeting about the academic programmes being offered by NUTECH in various engineering fields. It was informed that NUTECH had planned to offer programmes in Artificial Intelligence, robotics, and other fields of engineering and IT.
