HEC, Microsoft renew ETA for education advancement – Pakistan Observer

Higher Education Commission and Microsoft in Pakistan have renewed the Education Transformation Agreement as both organizations once again partnered to help enable positive changes to learning outcomes for the students in the country. The collaboration reimagines the education landscape, which is facing a lot of challenges, especially in post-Pandemic recovery.

This ETA will be providing universities with knowledge transfer workshops and trainings on trending Microsoft technologies including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Azure.

So far during Pandemic, more than 150 Universities and 500,000 plus students took advantage of effective learning, all in one place, which let students, faculty, educators, and staff meet, work together, create content, and share resources in Office 365 Education – featuring the simple, intuitive power of Microsoft Teams.

Director General IT HEC, Nazeer Hussain said, “Our long-term partnership with Microsoft empowers the students to use their creativity in addressing real societal problems using Modern Technology.

Microsoft has been very helpful in nurturing creative minds through Imagine cup competitions so many of the participants practically implement their ideas into successful startups and turn it into companies.

Country Education Lead for Microsoft Pakistan Mr. Jibran Jamshed express his views “We know that technology is a key to fuel economic development, increase work force competitiveness, transitions to a knowledge-based economy and help drive job creation.

The single most important use of technology is to improve education and yet in many countries in the world we have not yet seen digital transformation in education.

Change requires strong partnerships and trust.

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