Professor from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Visits Various Universities of Pakistan

Prof. David Rooney from the Faculty of Business and Economics,Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia is in Pakistan to give lectures in various Pakistani universities of Lahore and Islamabad. He is scheduled to visit Lahore School of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, University of Punjab, Hailey College of Commerce, University of Central Punjab, Bahria University, Air University and COMSATS University Islamabad in his solo week long trip to Pakistan.

He will give lectures based on his research in topics of Wisdom, Leadership and Knowledge Economies with specifying features on Pakistan. He is escorted by Ms. Rumla Tahir, Country Manager (Pakistan) Macquarie University, Mr. Wasim S. Hashmi Syed, Advisor , Ms. Saima Naurin, Project Director, Mr. Muhammad Shoaib, Project Director, Mr. Muhammad Ashfaq, Project Manager at the Human Resource Development (HRD) Wing at the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Islamabad.

Inviting foreign lecturers and professors to share their research work in specific field give a broad educational experience to the students. This has become a common practice all over the world. It can be said as the internationalization of faculty and education. Such lectures open variety of new ideas which were unknown to students.

Such interactions encourage the engagement of students in sharing their insight on specific research. For instance, this research of Prof. David Rooney on Economics will give detailed information on the topic to the student who is planning to do his research or thesis on it. In addition to the information, its content can provide credibility to student’s research as well.

The primary and limited knowledge of student is stimulated by hearing different point of views of experts from distant boundaries. This educational strategy arouses critical and logical evaluation of research. It can be said as an easiest academic ladder, as it instills the mastery of accumulating the content into most effective way possible.

Macquarie University is public research University based in Sydney, Australia established in 1964. Macquarie University offers admission to large number of international students. The English-language centre called the centre for Macquarie English is approved by the University and gives direct entry English programmers to foreign students willing to study in Australia. The University is among top universities of the world having 5 stars QS Ranking.

The University has designed three under graduate, graduate exchange scholarship programmes for foreign students such as: Student Exchange program, Macquarie’s unique PACE program and The Global Leadership Program (GLP) is a University-funded extracurricular program that is open to all students. These scholarship programmes also for those students who want to study short courses in Australia. The University has provided complete consultancy regarding these programmes in their website.

The University also provides scholarships to post graduate and PhD students for research work and other courses. The Government funded scholarship for international students is Research Training Program (iRTP). This scholarship is available for:

1. MRES Y2: The Master of Research (MRes Year 2) program
2. PhD: Direct entry to a 3 year Doctor of Philosophy program
3. M Phill: Direct entry to a 2 year Master of Philosophy program