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Dawn Education Expo 2008 Assignment on Narrative Essay (Final Draft)

Submitted to: Mrs.Fareena Iqbal Submitted by: Muhammad Hassan Idrees Zammad Ahmad Kamal Mustafa Umer Nisar

Institute of Space Technology. Islamabad

4/22/2008

DAWN Education EXPO 2008 Education is probably the most important thing in life that someone can obtain. There are many levels of education. These levels begin at Kindergarten and Pre-K and continue on through grade school, junior high school, high school, and undergraduate colleges if so chosen. Then the possibility of graduate school is in the interest of some student and is required for better pay and even in some career fields. In Pakistan, quality education is strongly associated with a foreign degree. A degree from a foreign institute of higher learning opens the doors to a career path in a prestigious national or multinational company. EDUCATION EXPOs offer institutes of higher learning unique networking opportunities designed to facilitate student-to-university as well as university-to-university interface. DAWN EDUCATION EXPO 2008 was organized by DAWN, Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper, read by the country’s most influential consumer segments. DAWN is also recommended reading in the finest schools and colleges throughout Pakistan, and it is from this select body of schools that the DAWN EDUCATION EXPO draws its maximum student participation, thereby ensuring exceptional quality. DAWN EDUCATION EXPO 2008 was held at a critical juncture (late February) – when I had received my final results and was making my final choices regarding the institute I will choose for my higher studies.

On the morning of Friday, February 29, 2008 I reached at Pearl Continental Hotel Islamabad where Dawn Education Expo was held. It was a very happy moment for me when I came to know that there were over 135 universities and higher education institutes participating from Pakistan, Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malaysia, Poland, South Korea, the UAE, the UK and the USA. First of all I moved towards the information desks of Pakistani institutions. There were two Pakistani universities National University of Computer and Emerging Science commonly known a FAST and National University of Science and Technology have arranged their stalls. The representatives of NUCES which were also students told me about their globally recognized bachelors’ degree programs. After passing half an hour with them I moved towards the office of British counsel. I gathered a lot of information about getting admission in the UK. One of their officials told me that, the British High Commission in Pakistan is expecting between 12,000 and 15,000 students from Pakistan in the running year. They give me a broacher in which all the necessary information was available for applying in the universities of UK by a globally recognized procedure, UCAS. I spent about an hour with them then I went to next hall where the desks of Engineering universities were arranged. It was really a great pleasure for me to exchange my ideas with the students of Oxford, MIT (Massatuates Institute of Technology) and BUAA China. I found all the people very friendly and polite. After three hours I came back to home. I found DAWN EDUCATION EXPO 2008 a unique higher education platform, specially conceived to facilitate the enrolment of Pakistani students in universities and institutes of higher

learning.