Australia’s Griffith University offers 100% scholarships to five Pakistan students

2025-02-15 08:43:17

Griffith University will offer 100 percent tuition fee waiver to five Pakistani students every year. This was announced in a meeting held by Australian High Commissioner Margaret Adamson with Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri during her visit to the Commission Secretariat. HEC Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri said HEC values its partnership with Australian higher education institutions and welcomes Griffith University to become a part of this partnership. He said that 10 Australian universities are on board with HEC and 160 Pakistani students are currently enrolled in PhD programmes in these institutions. He informed the delegation that Pakistan’s priorities include not only science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines but also social sciences, humanities and arts. HEC chairman says he values the partnership with Australian higher education institutions and welcomes Griffith University to become a part of this partnership He also shed light on HEC overseas and indigenous scholarship programmes. He said HEC indigenous scholars are offered to spend six months in some foreign university for their academic and research exposures. He added that HEC also offers fully-funded post-doctoral fellowship opportunities to Pakistani scholars. Margaret Adamson said that Pakistan and Australia have developed a long term partnership over higher education which provides an excellent opportunity for collaboration in research as well as education, short and long term training programmes and capacity building courses. The high commissioner was accompanied by Griffith Business School Pro-Vice Chancellor (VC) Professor David Grant, Austrade Trade Commissioner Peter Coleman, Austrade Country Director Azhar Shah, international director Professor Peter Woods and Griffith Business School Regional Marketing Manager Mohannad Bawaz. Griffith Business School Pro-VC Professor David Grant said he was very excited to become a part of partnership between Pakistan and Australia in higher education. Published in Daily Times, February 1st 2019.

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