ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has asked the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan to formulate policy for distant-education at the earliest aiming at encouraging and promoting e-learning in the country.
The President made these remarks while chairing a meeting of newly appointed members of the Board of Governors (BoG) of Virtual University, at Aiwan-e-Sadr, on Wednesday.
The President said that e-learning was cost-effective and accessible and it would enormously benefit the students belonging to the poor strata of society, particularly the students of rural areas.
The President congratulated the newly-appointed members of BoG and expressed the hope that they would greatly help in ensuring good governance and improving the quality of education. He stated that the university needed to expand its outreach as it had great potential to cover rural areas of the country.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T), Syed Amin-ul-Haque, Secretary IT&T, Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui, Secretary Federal Education, Mrs Farah Hamid Khan, Chairman NTC, Brig Viqar Rashid Khan ®, Principal Information Officer (PIO), Shahera Shahid, members of BoG and senior officials of the Ministry for Information Technology and Telecommunications.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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