The University of
Engineering and Technology, Taxila is endeavoring
to tailor itself to cope up with the new realities
of life and death and success and failure while
the new components of this University have to embed
the requirements of new age in their design and
foundations. Creating “new” is a very
sacred event because it is the manifestation of
some vision translated into the beginning movements
– movements that contain the genes of becoming
pivotal to the academic excellence in knowledge
society which is much bigger than the boundaries
of provinces, countries and regions. Knowledge society
is global indeed and very well documented by the
“Economist” sometimes back in its special
report, “Talent Wars”. Geographical
boundaries and barriers of trade have become immaterial
the business of brains. As the philosophy of pricing
and paying for the services the attainment of higher
education is becoming increasingly difficult which
leaves economically developing countries at a disadvantage
as best and the brightest as well as wealthy and
advantaged classes flock towards the best institutions
on the globe, our aspiration at UET is to be amongst
the best.
We are a public University as such
we uphold the “education as public good”
principle. If not all most of the genius and leaders
in science, arts, politics, engineering, dance,
and drama, language and literature, came from middle
class families and because of the public good philosophy
were able to benefit from the wealth of knowledge
and were able to leave perennial marks in the worlds
of knowledge. When we watch the global trends in
the history of nations in commanding positions,
we see education as a precursor. The epicenter of
power, politics, military and financial strength
followed the epicenter of education from the East
to Europe and then from Europe to North America.
Powering the economy requires preparing the minds
particularly the youth and lots of them which requires
making access to the University education easy and
lucrative. Middle class of economically developed
world can not afford increasingly expensive quality
higher education which makes them likely pray of
underdevelopment. The governments and the corporate
sector have to foot the bill to the possible extent
and then reap the benefit of the prepared youth.
The quality of education in general
and higher education in particular had become a
serious concern universally. The university’s
quality of education is a composite measure of quality
of its people both students, teachers, and administration,
quality of research, quality in teaching and learning,
quality of internationalization, quality of management
practices, quality of the infrastructure, and quality
of resourcing for maintaining healthy financial
outlays. Further, the foundations of great universities
are laid on the sound principles of excellence in
academic standards, equity, equality, sincerity
of purpose, and vision for the future. The university
bodies like Senate, Syndicate, Councils, Boards
and Committees must be represented by visionaries
- top class academicians, researchers’ administrators
and educational leaders, we will continue to strive
to uphold these standards.
We at UET Taxila have resolved
that in our academic offering we shall not only
follow the standards; we shall set the new ones
“standards of excellence”. Combination
of world class precision crafted curriculum, highly
ranked academic research, with excellent corporate
relations – a blend of soft skills with hard
knowledge is a way to guide our alumni to the best
of business and technological world. At UET Taxila
our students are led to harness the richness of
content and diversity of community in a very conducive
learning environment. Brilliant and creative people
are crucial to our survival and our success so we
are constantly seeking and searching top talent,
wherever it may be, student body or faculty or administration.
We provide ample opportunity of networking to our
student and faculty by hosting national and international
events and sending our faculty and students to other
centers of higher learning for promoting the learning
community of peers.
We believe that higher education
is fundamentally a “public good” and
every person who can genuinely pursue it must be
provided an opportunity rather than only those who
could pay for it. We have a well thought out plan
to reach-out the talent throughout the country and
bring them to the central core of our development
strategy. Our promise to our stakeholders is that
financial difficulties would not become hurdles
in the ways of our talented youth. Top tier students
win scholarships and students coming from families
who are not economically very fortunate will receive
partial and full tuition concession; or limited
work-study arrangement. Employees of this university
who want to improve their qualification and their
children who are able to secure admission by competing
will also have placement opportunities. The corporate
sector in manufacturing, engineering, the banks,
the airlines, telecom operators, national and international
donors, the government and others are increasingly
pouring in scholarships for those who can genuinely
maintain an adequate accomplishment in their academic
pursuits and we have plans to harness this potential
to the maximum possible extent. No one is born to
greatness; all those who have got it have worked
for it and won it, step by step. Our alumni have
to understand that they have to do the same, seek
the greatness lecture by lecture, experiment by
experiment, course by course, semester by semester
and success by success. We facilitate and the world
would respect your quest for perfection. We expect
that this vision of ours would INSHALLAH change
our collective future.
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