IUCPSS celebrates its 9th anniversary.

ISLAMABAD -- The Inter-University Consortium for the Promotion of Social Science (IUCPSS) is celebrating its 9th anniversary with a series of talks by experts in higher education.

The inaugural talk in the series was chaired by Prof. Dr. S. Sohail H. Naqvi, Vice Chancellor University of Central Asia.

He focused on the "Higher Education During and Post COVID-19 - Opportunities and Challenges for Pakistan" . This talk will assist in identifying future avenues for the upcoming education policy in the country.

Professor Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar, Vice Chancellor of the National Skills University and Founding Chairperson of the IUCPSS, welcomed the honorable guest. Prof. Dr. Fazal Khalid, Chairman Punjab Higher Education Commission, shed light on the numerous services of Prof. Naqvi in higher education and technological forefronts.

According to him, Prof. Naqvi's era was a golden period in higher education, unable to stay sustainable though policies and procedures devised under his and Prof. Atta ur Rehman's leadership are considered the guiding light even today.

Prof. Naqvi thanked everyone attending the seminar.

He initiated his talk by describing the COVID-19 perspective in the realm of higher education. It is time that everyone must think that what they can do at individual levels to thrive through these tough times, including students, faculty, vice chancellors, regulators, parents, and community in general can do. In focusing on the COVID-19 virus, he characterized it as a disease the world has never seen before. It has not spared any corner of the world and put a brake on all human interactions and created massive scientific challenges like viral mutations avoiding vaccine, jumping forth and back to animals and humans. Numerous scientific avenues are being explored and will continue to be.

Moreover, the virus spread exerted a differential impact in different nations, age groups, etc. This happened in the era that the world has great confidence in science and conquered everything. Pakistan was predicted to have 650000 death with COVID-19 that in actuality is around 12000...