Enhancing Graduates’ Employability is Biggest Challenge for Universities: GCU Dr Asghar

News Desk

Lahore: The biggest immediate challenge to universities is enhancing the employability of their graduates, said GC University Vice Chancellor Dr Asghar Zaidi.

“We have been told by the industry that you send us your best graduates and we have to teach them again. They have to up skill their graduates to make them useful for the industry in Pakistan and abroad,” Dr Zaidi informed. He was addressing a two-day conference on “Fisheries and Aquaculture” organized by GC University collaboration with leading industries.

We have been told by the industry that you send us your best graduates and we have to teach them again. Dr Zaidi informed.

Prof. Zaidi said conferences like these are an opportunity where academia and industry can sit in a very frank atmosphere, tell them where they have fallen short and what they need to do to make their graduates productive members of Industry.

Provincial Secretary Fisheries Shahid Zaman said that no industry can flourish without support from academia and researchers. However, he said the government is providing subsidies to the private sector to flourish in the fisheries sector so that they can fulfil the commercial demand and biodiversity in the rivers can be protected.

Besides faculty and students from 25 universities, about 19 industries working fisheries sector are participating in the conference spread over six technical sessions.