ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the UAE have agreed to enhance cooperation in the sectors of education and skills, the Pakistani education ministry said on Wednesday.
The Pakistani education minister, Shafqat Mahmood, met his Emirati counterpart, Hussein bin Ibrahim Al-Hammadi during the 14th General Conference of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) in Cairo.
“Both sides agreed to enhance cooperation in Education and Skills sector,” the ministry said in a series of tweets.
Mahmood said Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission and the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) “will be tasked to engage with UAE side for further details and cooperation.”
The UAE is home to some 1.5 million Pakistani expatriates and the second-largest sources of remittance to the South Asian nation, after Saudi Arabia, with whom Pakistan is also in talks to further educational ties.
Last week, Islamabad and Riyadh signed two agreements on worker recruitment and skill verification for Pakistani workers seeking employment in the kingdom.
The two countries have also decided to develop a system where experts in various fields from Pakistan would come to train Saudi teachers and vice versa.
