Our Correspondent Rahim Yar Khan
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Muhammad Suleman Tahir Sunday visited the Rahim Yar Khan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and discussed with the chamber members the industry-academia cooperation.
He said that industrial problems could be solved through modern educational reforms, for which an interaction between trained engineers, professionals and the industry people was necessary.
“We need to increase cooperation between academia and industry to keep pace with the modern world,” he added.
He said that over the past one year, the university had been acclaimed at world forums for its merit and innovative reforms.
The Green Matrix and Times Higher Education Impact Rankings have given Khwaja Fareed University a prominent position, he added.
He offered the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to set up its liaison office at the university so that the chamber could benefit from the ongoing projects and lab experiments at the university.
The chamber president thanked the VC and said that he was looking forward to the coordination.