It was decided during a meeting held here between HEC and P@SHA, a press release said on Monday. Dr Arshad Ali, Executive Director, HEC, Barkan Saeed, Chairman, P@SHA, Dr Ayub Alvi, Chairman, National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) and Vice Chancellors of different universities attended the meeting.
The objective of this meeting was to explore avenues of collaboration among the stakeholders to enable fresh graduates to learn about new and emerging tools and technologies.
It also aimed at deliberating on measures to enhance production of computing professionals in order to meet the local as well as international demand for experts in new and emerging tools and technologies.
It also brought under consideration the steps needed to reduce the market gap between available qualified and skilled human resource and actual required qualification of human resource.
Talking to the meeting participants, Dr. Arshad Ali stressed the need for devising a plan of action to achieve the objectives. He said HEC is committed to building skills of computing graduates so that they may cater to the needs of market.
Barkan informed the meeting that P@SHA is preparing a list of experts in different new and emerging areas of computing which will be shared with HEC and other stakeholders.
These experts will help universities, their faculty and graduates to learn about new tools and technologies.
Dr Ayub Alvi shared NCEAC’s plan to conduct five-day workshops on various emerging technologies which will be attended by faculty, students and industry professionals.