University of Haripur wins international recognition by joining CPEC consortium of education

China Economic Net

Haripur: The University of Haripur (UoH) has won international recognition by joining the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) consortium of education, Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Anwarul Hasan Gilani said.

The VC said that the UoH was the only higher education institution in the province that has 10 senior professors and 22 Assistant Professors on its faculty.

The academic and research collaboration between Pakistan and China has witnessed impressive growth in the last few decades.

According to Times Higher Education Ranking (2021), Shanghai Jiao Thong Universities ranking (2020) and US News and World Report (2020) more than 100 Chinese Universities are placed in the global best 500 universities of the world with huge investment by the Chinese government in research and development.

While looking at the significance of intellectual and knowledge connectivity, alongside the physical routes, Pakistan’s Higher Education Commsion (HEC) has established a CPEC centre at its headquarters.

Under this initiative, a consortium of CPEC universities has been created, which now comprises more than 50 universities. The HEC also approved a project to establish a Knowledge and Research Corridor between the two countries.

The main aim of the project is to create collaboration amongst the Chinese and consortium universities of Pakistan for strengthening the Chinese Belt-and-Road Intuitive (BRI), to exploit the opportunities of China’s appetite for global talent, and support the universities of Pakistan for human resource development.

Speaking to journalists here on Saturday, Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Anwarul Hasan Gilani said the untiring efforts of his faculty and staff members had helped the university to grow to the status of the few topmost universities of the country where the fee structure was comparatively much less than others.

Briefing about the achievements of UoH, the Vice-Chancellor said that during the last two years, the number of students had increased to 5500 from 3000 as it became a member of the CPEC consortium of education.

And the ratio of female students, he said, also increased by 40 percent, which was a proof of the growing confidence of parents.

He claimed that the university offered the students the best conducive academic environment and as a result, the students from different parts of the country and abroad preferred to get admission in the UoH.