{"id":2123,"date":"2019-01-27T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2019-01-27T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:01:01","slug":"australian-high-commissioner-commends-growing-number-of-pakistani-scholars-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/australian-high-commissioner-commends-growing-number-of-pakistani-scholars-to-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian High Commissioner commends growing number of Pakistani scholars to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #181818;\">Islamabad-27 Jan 2019<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2124\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australian-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australian-Award.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australian-Award-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australian-Award-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australian-Award-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australian-Award-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australian-Award-696x512.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australian-Award-571x420.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/>: Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Margaret Adamson Friday commended the growing number of Pakistanis who make Australia their first choice for education and professional development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #181818;\">She expressed these views at a reception hosted here in honor of Pakistani scholars with an aim to celebrate the successful completion of their courses undertaken by 56 Australia Awards scholars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #181818;\">As many as 35 new Australia Awardees Pakistani scholars \u2013 more than half of them women \u2013 selected for Masters-level scholarships at Australian universities in January 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #181818;\">Congratulating the selected awardees Ms Adamson said that, \u201cAustralia has some of the world\u2019s best facilities, researchers and educators, providing local and international students with a range of quality study options.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #181818;\">Scholarships are a longstanding pillar of Australian development assistance, she told. They offer Masters-level and short-term professional development opportunities to equip professionals with the skills and knowledge they need to shape successful, inclusive and sustainable economic and social development, the High Commissioner added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #181818;\">Returned scholars will join an active and engaged community of Australian alumni in Pakistan, as well as regional and global alumni networks, she informed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #181818;\">\u201cAustralia Awards provide a platform to help us to contribute to Pakistan\u2019s future,\u201d said TahseenZeb, Vice President of the Alumni Executive Committee. \u201cWe are grateful to have had the opportunity to study at Australia\u2019s world-class universities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #181818;\">Australia Awards applications for 2020 will open on February 1. Applications are encouraged from women, people working in the private sector and people living in remote areas, including Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad-27 Jan 2019: Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Margaret Adamson Friday commended the growing number of Pakistanis who make Australia their first choice for education and professional development. She expressed these views at a reception hosted here in honor of Pakistani scholars with an aim to celebrate the successful completion of their courses undertaken by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}