HEC and Microsoft partner together to assist students achieve better learning results

Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Microsoft have renewed their Education Transformation Agreement (ETA) to help students in the country achieve better learning results. Both organizations teamed up once more to re-imagine the education sector, which is undergoing significant changes, particularly in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Microsoft and HEC will provide a range of services to all HEIs under the banner of this academic collaboration, including utilising new technology to make learning more accessible, personalised, and student-centric by combining virtual and physical classrooms.

This ETA will offer colleges knowledge transfer workshops and trainings on cutting-edge Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure. During Pandemic, upwards of 150 universities and 500,000 students benefited from effective learning in one place, which allowed students, instructors, educators, and staff to communicate, collaborate, create material, and share resources in Office 365 Education using Microsoft Teams' easy, intuitive power.

The 'Imagine Cup,' a global student technology contest sponsored by Microsoft with local backing from the Higher Education Commission, is one of the agreement's signature programmes.

It allows student engineers, developers, and aspiring entrepreneurs from a variety of academic backgrounds to cooperate, develop a technological application, and bring their passion to life while learning what it takes to bring a project to market.