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BEIJING - The CPEC Cultural Communication Centre (CCC) under its 'Talent Corridor' scheme will offer scholarships to 1,000 Pakistani students for a one-year vocational training starting from November this year in China.
"The students to be selected from across the country will be provided free tuition and dormitory during the training at different universities and institutes in China," Echo Lee, Director General, CPEC CCC and CEO of St Xianglin Management and Consulting Company while talking to APP here on Sunday.
The CPEC CCC is located in China's Suzhou Vocational University, which has the world-class facilities and able faculty and its functions include Sino-Pak students exchange, academic research and seminars, vocational education, organising Chinese culture experience camp and teachers exchange, she added.
Giving further details about scholarship scheme, she said it is a three level programme and the students will be taught outer space and high-speed train technology during the first level while in the middle level, they will be imparted education of hydro-power and solar energy engineering.
The students selected for the lowest level will get training for the driving of different machines and types of equipment including excavation machines and caterpillar etc.
Ms Echo Lee said this year, 1,000 students will be offered 20 majors from a high level to the lower level classes as compared to 100 scholarships in six majors last year.
While hoping for a positive response and cooperation from the Pakistani side, she said at present, the details are being discussed with the concerned officials in the Pakistan ministry of planning, development and reforms as well as the embassy of Pakistan in Beijing. She informed the CPEC CCC is jointly working along with the Chinese education ministry which is affiliated with a number of vocational universities and institutes.
To a question, she claimed that vocational education in China is the highest level in the world even in some areas it is better than Germany and Japan.
The CEO said this cross-border education exchange programme is step one of the overall project and added in the next phases, equipment and teachers will be sent for vocational training of Pakistani students in Pakistan.
The Chinese vocational education centres, as well as educational parks, would be set up in Pakistan in future, she added.
She said her organization intends to donate some training equipment and looking forward to a positive response from Pakistani institutions which are interested to receive it.
About the cooperation in the past, she said her organization has signed a MoU with Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw (KP) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) governments to set up cultural communication centres under the CPEC framework.
These centres will serve as the main forum in the field of Sino-Pak education and cultural communication, she added.
https://nation.com.pk/02-Jul-2018/china-offers-hi-tech-training-to-1-000-pak-students
"The students to be selected from across the country will be provided free tuition and dormitory during the training at different universities and institutes in China," Echo Lee, Director General, CPEC CCC and CEO of St Xianglin Management and Consulting Company while talking to APP here on Sunday.
The CPEC CCC is located in China's Suzhou Vocational University, which has the world-class facilities and able faculty and its functions include Sino-Pak students exchange, academic research and seminars, vocational education, organising Chinese culture experience camp and teachers exchange, she added.
Giving further details about scholarship scheme, she said it is a three level programme and the students will be taught outer space and high-speed train technology during the first level while in the middle level, they will be imparted education of hydro-power and solar energy engineering.
The students selected for the lowest level will get training for the driving of different machines and types of equipment including excavation machines and caterpillar etc.
Ms Echo Lee said this year, 1,000 students will be offered 20 majors from a high level to the lower level classes as compared to 100 scholarships in six majors last year.
While hoping for a positive response and cooperation from the Pakistani side, she said at present, the details are being discussed with the concerned officials in the Pakistan ministry of planning, development and reforms as well as the embassy of Pakistan in Beijing. She informed the CPEC CCC is jointly working along with the Chinese education ministry which is affiliated with a number of vocational universities and institutes.
To a question, she claimed that vocational education in China is the highest level in the world even in some areas it is better than Germany and Japan.
The CEO said this cross-border education exchange programme is step one of the overall project and added in the next phases, equipment and teachers will be sent for vocational training of Pakistani students in Pakistan.
The Chinese vocational education centres, as well as educational parks, would be set up in Pakistan in future, she added.
She said her organization intends to donate some training equipment and looking forward to a positive response from Pakistani institutions which are interested to receive it.
About the cooperation in the past, she said her organization has signed a MoU with Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw (KP) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) governments to set up cultural communication centres under the CPEC framework.
These centres will serve as the main forum in the field of Sino-Pak education and cultural communication, she added.
https://nation.com.pk/02-Jul-2018/china-offers-hi-tech-training-to-1-000-pak-students
