*Position holders thank CM for arranging tours to foreign universities
Due to the efforts of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, we have got an excellent opportunity of enhancing our knowledge and information by visiting foreign universities.
This was said by Pakistani position holder male and female students who are on a study tour of European universities on the direction of the Punjab chief minister visited University of Stockholm in Sweden. Representatives of University Tina Larson and Karin Granevi welcomed the students and conducted visit to various sections of the university. Stockholm University is considered one of the biggest universities providing higher education. More than 65 thousand students are studying in the university, out of which 62 per cent are female and 38 per cent are male students. Four researchers of the university got noble prize in chemistry while one in economics. The students visited students’ house, library and lecture hall of the university. Later, Pakistani students also visited Uppsala University where dean of social sciences welcomed them. The university, set up in 1477, is the oldest university of Sweden where subjects of arts, law, medicine, science and technology, educational sciences and social sciences are taught. Forty thousand students are enrolled in the university. Uppsala University has also an agreement of exchange of students with 400 universities of 50 countries. Pakistani position holder students also visited auditorium and museum of the university.
