Islamabad, October 27, 2021 (PPI-OT):President Dr Arif Alvi has called for increasing enrolments in higher education institutions of the country and producing good quality of IT graduates so as to meet the rising demands of the market for skilled and educated workforce. The President stated this during a briefing on COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), given by Rector CUI, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Tabassum Afzal, at Aiwan-e-Sadr, today. Rector CUI briefed the meeting about the role of university in the promotion of education.

He updated the meeting about the progress on the establishment of Cyber Security Institute and CUI Campuses under Public Private Partnership (PPP) in main cities of the country, including Faisalabad, Sialkot and Jhelum. The President urged the need for revisiting the vision of the university and increasing its virtual ability with a special focus on producing a greater number of IT graduates. He said that Pakistani universities should focus on research and development in the fields of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing and Data Analysis.

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