ISLAMABAD – A two-member delegation of the California Southern University,USA, during its visit to the University of Karachi expressed its interestin working together with Karachi University.
President California Southern University Dr. Gwen Finestone and the VicePresident of Global Relations Calsouthern University Anastasia Selberis metthe KU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Khalid Mahmood Iraqi at the VCSecretariat on Friday.
The visitors had shown interest in offering short term certificate coursesto the faculty members as well as online education to teachers. During themeeting, they informed the KU VC Professor Dr. Khalid Iraqi thatCalsouthern University is one of the best educational institutes whichprovide online education in different parts of the world.
The Calsouthern University’s officials expressed that they will like towork with the education and psychology departments and Karachi UniversityBusiness School in the first stage. They added that they will like toextend cooperation in other fields in later stages.
Dr. Gwen Finestone shared that Calsouthern will provide complete assistancein designing courses and programs related to the subject of trauma and willalso train the teachers in this regard.
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In this regard, the MoU will be signed in the coming days.
She said that this is a very important topic around the world andeducational institutions, particularly like the University of Karachi whichhas experienced faculty and provides education to students of differentbackgrounds and it could play a very important role in bringing bettermentin society.
Anastasia Selberis shared that teacher training is a key program of theCalsouthern University which will collaborate with Karachi University sothat they can share their experience with the teachers and students of oneof the largest public sector universities of Pakistan.
