{"id":50306,"date":"2024-09-29T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=50306"},"modified":"2024-09-29T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T06:15:46","slug":"punjab-education-minister-unveils-dubai-trip-reward-for-top-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/punjab-education-minister-unveils-dubai-trip-reward-for-top-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab education minister unveils Dubai trip reward for top students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/punjab-public-service-commission-issues-guidelines-before-latest-tests\/\">Punjab&#8217;s Education Minister<\/a>, Rana Sikandar Hayat, has announced an exciting initiative to reward high-achieving students with a trip to Dubai, which he has personally funded.<\/p>\n<p>During his speech at Punjab University&#8217;s convocation, Hayat emphasized the importance of developing degree programs that meet the needs of the job market, ensuring graduates don&#8217;t need personal connections to secure employment.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, the minister outlined plans to introduce specialized academic programs in high demand, including dedicated institutions focused on<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-invites-all-political-parties-to-sign-charter-of-economy-for-pakistans-progress\/\"> information technology (IT). <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he criticized educational institutions for prioritizing trivial matters over innovative and modern academic offerings, urging Punjab University to prioritize innovation and academic achievements.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Dubai trip, Hayat announced that<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/cm-maryam-cracks-down-on-substandard-schools-buildings-orders-immediate-closure\/\"> Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz<\/a> will distribute 40,000 laptops to students and launch scholarship programs for 30,000 students to improve access to higher education.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is part of the government&#8217;s efforts to support education, with a budget of Rs 25 billion allocated for the scholarship program.<\/p>\n<p>These initiatives demonstrate the government&#8217;s commitment to education and empowering students for success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Punjab&#8217;s Education Minister, Rana Sikandar Hayat, has announced an exciting initiative to reward high-achieving students with a trip to Dubai, which he has personally funded. During his speech at Punjab University&#8217;s convocation, Hayat emphasized the importance of developing degree programs that meet the needs of the job market, ensuring graduates don&#8217;t need personal connections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":50307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[22396,22395,15725,22394,22397],"class_list":["post-50306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dubai-trip-for-students","tag-information-technology-it","tag-punjab-chief-minister-maryam-nawaz","tag-punjabs-education-minister","tag-scholarship-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50308,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306\/revisions\/50308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}