ISLAMABAD – Payame Noor, a high-ranking Iranian University entered intocooperative partnership with Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) to sharetheir knowledge, academic resources and expertise for providingbest possible education to their people, through Open Distance Learning(ODL) system.In this connection, the two Universities signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) thatcovered wide areas of bilateral cooperation in the fields of their commoninterest, a press releaseon Sunday said.The new Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Zia Ullah Qayyum who inked the documenton behalf of theAIOU, while Payame Noor was represented by its President Prof. Dr. MuhammadReza Zamani.Secretary General Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature Dr.Mohammad Reza Nasiri and a senior diplomat of Iranian Embassy in IslamabadM.M. Zamani were also present on the occasion.It was decided that the two sides will collaborate in setting up studycenter at their respective institutions to promote the thoughts of greatpoet Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, besides doing research work in otheracademic fields.Under the MoU, the two sides will facilitate the joint cooperation betweentheir faculty members in the field of developing educational resources ofPersian and Languages and literature and the joint publication of the books.They will also collaborate in the field of publications to promote theirlearning practices andscientific level. They will also have mutual collaboration in holding jointeducational programs andvirtual educational courses.In his brief remarks on the occasion, Dr. Zia hoped that the MoU will pavethe way for taking concrete and tangible measures to pass on the desiredbenefits of their students and academia.He asserted that for cooperative arrangements, the MoU should have positiveimpact onenhancing professional ranking and academic standard of the relevantinstitutions. The two sidescould have regular interaction through video-conferencing and other suchmeans to achieve the objectives, underlined in the MoU.The leader of Iranian delegation Dr. Mohammad Reza Zamani said that theAIOU is a great University as it is named after the poet of the East, Dr.Muhammad Iqbal. He hinted at bright scope of their bilateral cooperationin the educational field.Earlier, the Iranian delegation was given detailed briefing on the workingof the AIOU, by Director, International Collaboration and Exchange office,Dr. Zahid Majeed.While welcoming the delegation, the University’s Registrar Dr. MuhammadZaigham Qadeer spoke high of Pak-Iran close brotherly relations, statingthey are linked with each other by soul and heart.
Pakistan Iranian Universities enter into cooperative partnership
