Thousands of site visitors, including college students, academics, and literati, attended ‘The News Education Expo 2019’ at the Karachi Expo Centre on its establishing day on Saturday. The academic events, to be the ultimate until today (Sunday, were inaugurated by Sarmad Ali of the Jang Media Group.
Various universities, degree-awarding institutes, and academic firms installed eighty stalls at the event to inform prospective college students about their educational programs. The representatives of the instructional establishments on the stalls answered the site visitors’ queries. They furnished them with facts related to their academic programs, charge structure, scholarships, and professional counseling. Shabat Asghar of Campus France, who is being managed using the French embassy in Pakistan and has its head workplace in Paris, stated the agency had participated in the exhibition to create attention to opportunities for better schooling in France.
“Students in Pakistan have several misconceptions regarding the education machine of France,” he stated, including that such exhibitions allowed them to address such misunderstandings. Commenting on an instance of such misconceptions, he said Pakistani college students usually did not understand that there had been diverse instructional programs in France that were offered absolutely in the English language at a minimal cost. “There also are several scholarships for which college students don’t have any concept,” he defined. Sindh Madressatul Islam University’s (SMIU) Osama Bin Lutfullah guides college students about his university at some other stall. “Students who have completed intermediate commonly have misconceptions regarding semi-government and authority universities,” he said, adding that he turned in at the event to address such misconceptions.
Regarding the SMIU, he said although it changed into a government college, it operated via its budget. The United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP), a joint fee of Pakistan and the United States, also had its stall at the exhibition. Its USA schooling adviser, Akna Khan, informed The News that many students wanted to understand how they could practice research inside the US. For this, she stated, they might sign up on their website for advice. She defined that the USEFP had three departments. Certainly, one of which was approximately scholarships along with the Fulbright Scholar Program. The 2nd department becomes about checking out, which includes conducting the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), and the 1/3 one becomes accountable for guiding students. It held free advisory periods about the instructional possibilities inside the US.
The News also talked to site visitors who stated the expo turned into an awesome platform to help the students explore numerous varsities and determine what path they need to take for higher education. A scholar, Saad Aslam, stated that many academic institutes below one roof had allowed him to discover most alternatives. “I am a clean graduate of Karachi University and am exploring my options to look overseas. This exhibition addressed my diverse misconceptions,” he said. Another pupil, Nabil, stated he had queries about scholarship possibilities using neighborhood degree-awarding establishments. “I am satisfied to get encouraging responses with the aid of a number of the establishments.” Some educational establishments displayed outstanding paintings in their graduating college students within the various attire, style add-ons, and technological know-how projects.
