Chairman WAPDA, Engr Lt-Gen (r) Sajjad Ghani has announced that the state-of-the-art WAPDA University will begin operation soon as the organization is completing the necessary requirements quickly.
He made this announcement during his visit to the WAPDA Engineering Academy in Faisalabad on Monday.
WAPDA’s focal person for the university also gave an update to the Chairman about the progress on important tasks to set up the university, such as creating a charter, completing a feasibility report, managing finances, and deciding what programs will be offered.
WAPDA University will have its primary campus in Islamabad and sub-campuses in Lahore and Faisalabad. The university will introduce faculties of Engineering, Management Sciences, and Social Sciences gradually.
The Chairman explained the main goals for establishing the university, saying that WAPDA University will be a leader in academics and research in various fields that are crucial for the country’s growth.
He also stated that the university will close the gap between academia and industry in Pakistan by offering curricula specifically designed for this purpose.
Nothing will be improved by wapda university,the role of quality education beyond the scope of all Pakistan Universities, main criteria of Pakistan all Universities only and only business
Chit on all Universities of Pakistan running without goal for Pakistan
The quality of education you attained can be judged from how poorly you punctuated your post.
Agreed.. that’s what Pakistani universities are producing..
There are two issues here:
1. WAPDA does not have the reputation of excellence, technical or otherwise. The electrical power crisis of Pakistan partially is due to political decisions but is also partially due to Wapda’s incompetence that could not plan power generation, transmission and distribution in best national interest.
2. The curriculum and the education at WAPDA university would be biased towards the needs of WAPDA that may change with time and shifting priorities. The function of the universities is to prepare graduates for life long careers in broad based education. The very name of the university tells that it’s education will be biased towards what WAPDA needs and not what is in the best interest of students.
3. WAPDA has no academic flavor and embarking on this path will be a waste of time and money. Perhaps a better use of the surplus WAPDA money is to:
A. Sponsor establishing centers focused on technologies that are of interest to Wapda at multiple existing universities.
B. Solicit research proposals from academia to solve problems that Wapda is facing. If properly conducted this would give huge benefit to Wapds and the country
C. Through open competition, Sponsor post graduate students in disciplines that are of interest to Wapda.
D. Since Wapda is closer to industry and commercial enterprises, it can play a very crucial role in improving manufacturing base of electrical and electronic products. After proving themselves domestically, these enterprises can also venture in international arena. In 1980’s and early 1990’s Pakistan had developed a solid competence in design and installation of gas pipelines. Unfortunately due to poor planning the know-how was dissipated and the appropriate institutions did not facilitate contracts in the Middle East despite the boom that was going on there at the time.
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For God’s sake, set the power sector in order first and bring to an end unscheduled loadshedding and that too in peak winter. WAPDA remains one of the most corrupt and inefficient departments in this country. Forget universities. It is not WAPDA’ s job to establish universities.
I do not know who makes these uniformed men sit in such positions. They want to have their hands on everything.
Another wastage of money project.. Pakistan already has abundant engineering universities that are good for nothing. Getting a piece of paper named xyz engineering with zero skill level and unemployment even after spending lots n lots of💰💰 is what the outcome of these universities is..
So instead of wasting money on starting new useless projects, spend that budget to improve those already existing ones..
Improve their infrastructure and focus on enhancing students’ skill set during or after completing the degree or maybe put them into something like zero semester kind of thing before enrolling them to a particular program (for example if someone is interested in doing software engineering then put him to learn various short programing courses n tests to see whether he is eligible to become a successful software developer in future or not? Coz most of times either students don’t know what to do or their parents force them to do something big and eventually their career gets ruined). Also before awarding degrees move them to some industrial projects and award them degrees only IFF they qualify the industry criteria..
Similarly improve the area of arts design n architecture within education n industry sector..
Example: a prestigious college of arts NCA has it’s Rawalpindi campus in a poor n inaccessible area of city..my question is WHYYyy?? Move it to Islamabad In a new state of the art building and make it a proper university level campus instead of that cake box kind of building u have made in pindi…
Lots of other things requires improvement so the list goes ooonnn…