HEC chairman, UoS VC for promotion of skill-based education to accelerate economic growth.

ISLAMABAD -- "Providing skill-based knowledge to students can help accelerate the national economic growth," this was the crux of a meeting held between Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmed and University of Sargodha (UoS) Vice Chancellor Dr Qaisar Abbas.

The UoS VC was called on the HEC chairman to discuss the issues and challenges related to higher education on Thursday.

Dr Ahmed said, "Education, skills, and technical training are at the heart of economic growth that is sustainable, inclusive, and adds value. Both the latent and active workforces need to be built up for future investment and self-employment, and management training programmes and business incubators can help a great deal in this regard."

He further said effective industry participation was considered to be one of the most important parts of the skill development system, but it was, unfortunately, missing in Pakistan. "This makes it harder for graduates to get the skills that employers want and makes businesses less competitive."

Dr Qaisar Abbas said there was a dire need to focus on training as an investment to produce technically equipped students, who could better compete in the market, adding that an unequivocal and clearly...

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