{"id":15942,"date":"2026-01-06T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/01\/06\/accelerating-tvet-cooperation-with-uae\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:56:54","slug":"accelerating-tvet-cooperation-with-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/01\/06\/accelerating-tvet-cooperation-with-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating TVET Cooperation with the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of State for Federal Education and Professional Training <strong>Wajiha Qamar<\/strong> met the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Pakistan <strong>Salem Alzaabi<\/strong> at the UAE Embassy in Islamabad to discuss strengthening TVET cooperation, vocational skills development and higher education links between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting focused on aligning vocational training with international standards to enhance youth employability and respond to global labour market demands. The minister emphasised the value of joint certification programmes, faculty and student exchange and targeted capacity building initiatives to raise the quality and recognition of vocational pathways.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives explored closer collaboration between Pakistani higher education institutions and the Higher Education Commission, with a shared interest in mutual recognition of qualifications, research collaboration and improved academic mobility to widen opportunities for students and academics.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides expressed keen interest in establishing structured mechanisms for skilled labour exchange in priority sectors, aiming to facilitate workforce mobility, address labour market needs and support shared economic growth through practical skills deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Salem Alzaabi reaffirmed the UAE\u2019s commitment to deepening education and skills-based partnerships with Pakistan, and the two delegations agreed to pursue concrete frameworks that enhance people-to-people links through sustained TVET cooperation and skills development initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wajiha Qamar and UAE Ambassador agree to accelerate TVET cooperation, skills exchange and higher education links to boost Pakistani youth employability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}