Right mix of education in social sciences, marketable skills essential to get gainful employment: President.

ISLAMABAD -- President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday urged the universities and educational institutions to deliberate on creating a curriculum of the right mix of social sciences and market-oriented subjects to equip the students with social sciences and marketable skills.

The president, during a meeting with a high-level delegation of the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), said the right mix of education was also essential to enable the students to get gainful employment and also pursue their interest in writing, literature other disciplines of social sciences.

The delegation was led by the PAL Chairman Dr Yousaf Khushk, and members of the Board of Governors of the Academy at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

The president appreciated the PAL for promoting arts and literature in society and underlined the need to increase its subscribers and beneficiaries by increasing the reach of PAL's literary products by pursuing a cogent, effective and efficient marketing strategy.

He said that digitalization could help spread and enlarge the reach of PAL's literary products and services through web-based and cell phone-based applications which coupled with a marketing plan would help enhance its reach.

President Alvi appreciated the PAL for its efforts in preserving different regional languages of Pakistan, especially those which were neglected and were facing extinction.

He said that every language was a reservoir of distinctive knowledge, wisdom and heritage which needed to be preserved effectively and made available to the current and future generations as well as for the betterment of society.

The president said that Academy should double up its efforts to increase its networking by...