An eight-day online training for 30 to 40 outstanding Pakistani students has been planned by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Huawei Technologies (Pvt) Ltd, Pakistan, which is to be held from Sept 26 onward, an HEC official told WealthPK.

According to the Assistant Director of Learning Opportunities Abroad Higher Education Commission Pakistan, under the initiative in the last seven years, 130 students were selected from varsities across Pakistan by the HEC and 55 of them were sent by Huawei to China for two weeks’ training on culture and advance ICT skills. Just like last year, due to Covid-19, they have again planned to organize online training this year.

Under the new training programme, the HEC and Huawei have sought applications from potential Pakistani undergraduate students under the “Huawei Seeds for the Future Programme 2022”.

The official said the deadline to apply for this programme was Sept 18. The selected students would be able to obtain valuable cutting-edge ICT knowledge (5G, Cloud, AI, etc.) developed by Huawei’s Headquarters and experience cross-cultural communication virtually. A candidate must be a Pakistani/AJK national and dual nationality holders were not eligible, he said.

Explaining the criteria, the official said, the major disciplines/subjects of the candidates should be Information and Communication Technology, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Informatics, Multimedia, Digital Arts, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Electrical Communication Engineering, Telecom Engineering and Electronics Engineering.

“The students who will be considered for the online training will include those currently enrolled in final year of ICT-related undergraduate degrees (four years programme only with 6th, 7th and 8th semester) with minimum CGPA of 3.5 out of 4. Those who have completed their four-year undergraduate ICT-related degrees with minimum CGPA of 3.5 out of 4 since the summer of 2021 are also eligible. The students who are less than 24 years old on the closing date of application, those who demonstrate excellent academic acumen, speak English fluently and have a strong interest in Information Communication & Technology and related fields will also be considered for online training,” the official explained.

Those students who have already got this training in previous years are not eligible to apply. The selected students must have personal computer equipment and strong internet connection, the official added. He said the selected students must be available during online training sessions. Final selection would be based on academic excellence and federal government quota policy. In case of final award, selected candidates would not be able to withdraw, he said. The students are asked to apply through HEC online application portal seedsprogramme.hec.gov.pk.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-WealthPk