By NNN-APP,
Washington : Pakistan’s University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar and America’s Old Dominion University, Virginia have entered into an academic agreement for mutual cooperation in teaching and research at Ph.D. level.
Under the split program of PhD, teaching and research would be undertaken in both universities. The ODU will help the UET for the development of PhD teaching courses, a news release said.
Besides teaching on reciprocal basis, research will be undertaken jointly by both universities. Joint publications and seminars are also the part of the program.
“Therefore, besides teaching and research, this linkage would be a source of cultural exchange.”
According to Dr. Muhammad Munir, President PACES, Pakistani Americans Cultural & Educational Society, who negotiated this academic and research program, the Society PACS is working hard to establish more academic linkages between Pakistani and American universities in the field of higher education and research.
“These agreements are not only useful for dissemination of knowledge and research but also foster good relationship between the two countries,” said Munir, a former Education Counselor at the embassy of Pakistan here in Washington, said.
The PACES, he said, has already negotiated academic linkages of UET with University of Maryland, George Washington University, George Mason University, and University of California at Berkeley, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Adviser Finance and Planning of UET and John Broderick, Acting President, Carol Simpson, Provost and Vice President for academic affairs, and Oktay Baysal, Dean of Engineering School of ODU, Virginia.