Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has launched a country wide education alliance with the Microsoft to harness the power of education and Information Technology. This was stated in the press statement issued here on Thursday. The main objective of the alliance is to establish the basis of a long-term, on-going partnership that will also allow for regular review and measurement to ensure that all activities of Microsoft within the educational programmes remain aligned to the long-term.
The alliance will consist of Faculty Connection, Microsoft Student Partner programme, Imagine Cup, Technology Lab Integration, Students to Business interaction (S2B) portals and MSDN Academic Alliance. Commenting on this major development in the country's higher education sector, Kamal Ahmed, Country General Manager, Microsoft Pakistan, said, the Education Alliance with HEC provides the framework for a comprehensive joint public/private implementation plan that supports Pakistan's objective of achieving education excellence. It is aligned to the key strategic aims of transforming education, fostering local innovation and enabling jobs and opportunities.
Discussing the merits of the alliance, Anwar Amjad, HEC's Director IT, said, "This is a great opportunity for institutions of higher learning in Pakistan to gain access to a broad spectrum of technology and enable the country to move towards a knowledge-based economy, ultimately benefiting the country through socio- economic development."-PR