While addressing a meeting at Tevta secretariat here on Thursday, Irfan Qaiser said that nobody could deny the importance of the CPEC as that was a game changer for the whole region besides that it would put the country on the path of progress. He said CPEC would not only make Pakistan's economy strong but that strong economy would also provide employment opportunities to thousands of Pakistanis specially youth.
He further said the meeting that in order to understand the exact needs of the CPEC industry, Tevta set up a stall in the road show held in China few months ago. "Besides, it has also established strong linkage and relationships with the Chinese industries which is also going to set up in our country," he observed.
Irfan went on saying that keeping in view the need of the CPEC industry, TEVTA has started offering latest and updated courses for the students and will continue to add more courses. These courses included Chinese Language Learning, Hospitality Management, Construction, Industry, Automobile, Driving, Security, Financial Market, Agriculture, Livestock, Communication, Electrical and Electronics, Garments, Health, Leather, Chemical, Information Technology, Mechanical, Pottery and Ceramics, Services, Textiles, Sports Goods.
He said those courses were getting marvellous response from the general public specially the Chinese Language course which was gaining much popularity, he said, adding not only youth but people from all ages were getting admission in that course. Chairman Tevta said, "Since the works started on the projects of CPEC, major change is being observed in the education sector as the students now prefer the technical education on the conventional education". The establishment of country's first ever technical and vocational training university in Punjab in collaboration with Tianjin University of Technical Education (TUTE) is also part of Tevta's earlier preparation for CPEC.
The students of this university when graduated will be hired by leading Chinese industries which will be working as per CPEC, Irfan said, adding that reason behind that hiring would be their training and education as per the international standards because those students would be taught by Chinese professors.
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