{"id":98511,"date":"2021-09-30T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T10:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=98511"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T10:08:36","slug":"president-for-expanding-outreach-of-virtual-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=98511","title":{"rendered":"President for expanding outreach of Virtual University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Sep 30, 2021 (TNS): President Dr Arif Alvi has emphasized the need to promote distance education and e-learning for being affordable to a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a briefing on Virtual University of Pakistan in Aiwan-e-Sadr Islamabad, he called for expanding the outreach of the Virtual University so that students from remote areas of the country can benefit from online education.<\/p>\n<p>The President asked the VU management to chalk out a new vision and future plans for the university to meet the requirements of the digital age and set timelines to achieve its goals and objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Rector VU Professor Dr Arshad Saleem Bhatti briefing the meeting about the role of the university, said currently 100,000 students are enrolled in various disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>The university, besides broadcasting lectures and over its own four TV channels, is providing digital skills to its students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Sep 30, 2021 (TNS): President Dr Arif Alvi has emphasized the need to promote distance education and e-learning for being affordable to a lot of people. Speaking at a briefing on Virtual University of Pakistan in Aiwan-e-Sadr Islamabad, he called for expanding the outreach of the Virtual University so that students from remote areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98513,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98511\/revisions\/98513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}