Scholarship award ceremony held at Sindh University.

HYDERABAD: The Students' Financial Aid Office (SFAO) of the University of Sindh Jamshoro on Friday organized a ceremony to give away scholarship awards to outstanding students hailing from the University of Sindh, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) and Shaheed Allah Bakhsh University of Art, Design and Heritage Jamshoro.

According to a university spokesman, some of the talented students of these varsities were beneficiaries of the National Endowment Scholarship for Talent (NEST) programme initiated by the Federal Government for Education and Professional Training.

The event which was held at the Sheikh Ayaz Auditorium, Arts Faculty Building, University of Sindh was presided over by the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro, while the Caretaker Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Madad Ali Sindhi was the guest of honor.

Madad Ali Sindhi while addressing the ceremony disclosed plans for a forthcoming meeting with the provincial education ministers from all four provinces in Islamabad on October 16, focusing on strategies to educate millions of out-of-school children and enhance the quality of education within government-run institutions in all provinces.

He pledged to expand the National Endowment Scholarship for Talent (NEST) programme to include two current or former Vice Chancellors from Sindh, aiming to extend scholarship opportunities to students hailing from rural areas of the province.

He affirmed his commitment to improve the state of education in Sindh and encouraged all provinces to shoulder their responsibilities in enhancing schools and colleges and delivering quality education.

He also revealed plans to convene a meeting of the Vice Chancellors from public varsities across the country to address university-specific issues and emphasized the effective utilization of the education budget, stating that such measures could resolve up to 80 percent of the prevailing challenges.

Speaking on the occasion, the Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro highlighted the substantial contributions of the Federal Minister to the realms...