Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 10: HKM Govt Degree College Bandipora today conducted an international online webinar ‘Career Prospectus and Opportunities While Studying Abroad’ live from Harvard University, USA. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Shabir Hassan who is presently working as Research Scientist and faculty at Harvard University.
Faculty of different colleges/institutions, scholars and students from different parts of the world participated in the webinar.
In his presentation, Dr. Hassan gave an overview of foreign universities which provide courses on full term scholarship/fellowship to Indian students.
He talked about various exams such as GRE, TOEFL that students need to qualify to find themselves competitive at international level.
He also spoke about wide range of issues which one confront with and pointed out how through guidance and career counseling the innate potential of the students could be channelized towards better prospects of life.
Earlier, in the welcome address, Principal of the College, Dr Mohd Amin Malik spoke about the importance of career counseling and guidance for college students of J&K.
The entire session was quite interactive and students, faculty and research scholars of various colleges and institutions asked a number of questions.
The programme was jointly organized by the faculty members of the College Dr. Mubashir Hamid, Dr. Ghulam Hassan Dar, Dr Nasrul Islam and Prof. Shabir Ahmad Parey proposed the vote of thanks.