The British Council has congratulated the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on being ranked as one of the top 10 universities of Pakistan. In a letter, British Council’s director David Martin has said that the recent initiative taken by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to develop a system of globally recognised university rankings was a welcome step in internationalising the higher education sector in Pakistan.
“The British Council is proud of its association with the University of Health Sciences and our partnerships under the Council’s various higher education programmes”, he maintained.David further said that the British Council was looking forward to working with UHS in the future and to learn valuable lessons from the standard of excellence maintained by the university. UHS has recently been awarded the prestigious International Strategic Partnership in Research and Education (INSPIRE) and Development of Innovative System through Knowledge Exchange (DISKE) grants by the British Council for supporting joint academic and research programmes with University of Liverpool, UK.
