Rector International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) Prof. Dr. MasoomYasinzai called upon government to take academia on board while formulating new educational policies, aimed at improving education sector and for ensuring optimum results at national level.
He underlined the need to encourage those students at university level, who would take up education and policies issues. Citing developed countries, he said “We should learn from their expertise to reinvigorate our education system to meet contemporary requirements and tackle future challenges.” The Rector IIUI further said no university management would desire to have friction any group of students on multiple administrative and functional issues of the institution. He called for discouraging the tendency to divide students on linguistic and area basis as it dampens their passion and love for study and research work. Under the collaboration with Islamic countries, around 3000 foreign students were studying with 53 foreign teachers at the IIUI, he said. The Prime Minister, he informed, in a meeting held recently with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) had directed for resolving its financial issues. Replying to another query, Dr. Yasinzai said that the university was facing shortage of funds due to minimum financial support from foreign countries.”Currently, we have got approved an amount of Rs 2.5 billion from the government for improving quality education and different projects of the university” he said. The IIUI Rector urged the teachers to fully focus on the character building, ethics and discipline of the students. The IIUI and APP also accorded the approval for an internship programme for students of Department of Media and Communication Studies.