UK to award 400 scholarships to Pakistani students

Islamabad, Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS) in collaboration with UK Government is going to support about 400 poor students to get higher education in the country.

According to resources the Government Department of UK for International Development and LUMS are going to introduce the Empowerment over Education Enterprise. The purpose of this program is to support the financially deprived students to get higher studies.   LUMS will administer this 5-year program and provide help to those students who cannot afford higher education. The initiative will be given to backward areas of the country and girls will be the main target.

The head of DFID in Pakistan, George Turkington expressed his views and said that such initiatives can improve and uplift the poor students and brilliant students can pursue their studies. 

The Vice Chancellor of LUMS, Dr. Adil Najam said on this occasion that it is a planned scheme because it will enhance the standard of education and poor.

Moreover, As many as 36 Pakistani students will get educational scholarship by the Embassy of Azerbaijan the scholarships will be awarded to all the needy students of Pakistan.

The Ambassador of Republic of Azerbaijan Dashgin Shikarov inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Embassy of Azerbaijan and Inter University Consortium for Promotion of Social Sciences (IUCPSS) in collaboration with 12 Pakistani universities. It was decided in the MoU that a Heydar Aliyev Corners which will be established on the name of National Leader of Azerbaijan.

On this occasion he said that the MoU aims to set up Heyder Aliyev Corners in all the respective universities which will support to build up relationships between these two countries. All the needy students studying in the respective universities will be eligible to get scholarships.in this regard a ceremony was held observe the 90th Anniversary of Heydar Aliyev by Diplomatic Insight at Higher Education Commission Islamabad and IUCPSS. VC’s of several universities and their representative were also present on this occasion.