LAHORE: The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) and Alliance Francaise of Lahore (AFL) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) here at UVAS for opening a branch of AFL at UVAS campus to offer French language courses for UVAS students.
According to spokesperson for UVAS here, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad and AFL President Shaukat Hassan signed the MoU.
Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad along with French delegation also distributed certificates among 58 students who recently passed French language course (DELF A1 and DELF A2) examinations.
AFL Director Gaelle Le Breton, Chairman Department of Parasitology Prof Dr Kamran Ashraf, and officials from AFL were present.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad spoke about UVAS campuses, strength of students & faculty, academic and research activities.
He said UVAS always play a vital role not only imparting veterinary education even providing its service during natural disaster like flood and earthquakes.
MsGaelle Le Breton said that “We are providing opportunities of learning French language to Pakistani students”, adding that “Our motive is to promote French language in Pakistan”.
Under the MoU, AFL would assist in making the branch the standard reference for French language in UVAS by regularly updating teaching materials, AFL and UVAS agree on providing and maintaining the teaching material for the Resource Centre and for the classroom each year.