WWF signs MoU with Virtual University

WWF, the conservation organisation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Virtual University (VU) recently for providing awareness raising environmental/development programmes for daily transmission of at least 18 minutes on PTV World, commencing from 23rd March 2002.

"The VU is intended to be a full-time and formal alternative to conventional face-to-face teaching at institutes and universities," remarked Tajdar Alam, Executive Director of the VU while signing this MoU. The Virtual University is a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan, that aims to provide free IT education to students through television in Pakistan and other regions as well. It will provide quality IT education to a very large number of students - it is estimated that annually over 40,000 students will be trained in IT education. "The idea behind setting up the VU is to bring together a critical mass of quality faculty to provide world-class education in the IT sector," added Mr Alam.
WWF's TV Centre, which maintains a lending library of films on environment/ development and gender/health issues, will provide the VU all programmes free of cost. WWF's TV Center not only provides well-produced, quality information but also organizes travelling environmental films, exclusive in-house screening for educational institutions and dubbing of films into Urdu. The TV Center also collaborates with production houses for new production ventures.

For Further Information please contact:
Muhammad Farooq,
TV Centre, WWF - Pakistan, Lahore
Tel: 5862360/5869429,
Fax: 5862358,
tvcenter@wwf.org.pk