The U.S. Educational Foundation in Islamabad Pakistan

International Education Week

November 16, 2011--ISLAMABAD (PAKISTAN) – In celebration of International Education Week, the United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) held a day-long series of enjoyable activities at the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) Islamabad. Over three hundred participants joined USEFP and the U.S. Embassy (Islamabad) to celebrate the benefits of international education and cultural exchange worldwide.

Dawn Education Expo 2012

Held in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad every year, the Dawn Educational Expo is the largest educational fair in the country exposing thousands of Pakistani students, in each city, to information regarding higher education and various other learning opportunities abroad. The 2012 expo, held in February of this year, drew in an audience of nearly 10,000 students, scholars, teachers, parents and professionals. Attendance was open to the general public and widely advertised. USEFP booths in each city featured EducationUSA Advisers, Fulbright Program Officers and Prometric Testing staff members. The USEFP booths in all three cities were visited by a large number of students from various schools, colleges and universities. USEFP’s service oriented departments offer educational advising, scholarship information and standardized test information to students considering higher education in the United States. This is an ideal platform to answer a wide range of student and institutional concerns related to the U.S. application and admissions process.

CCID 36th Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2012

The conference theme this year was 'Currents of Change'. There were over forty concurrent sessions and workshops addressing this theme. Before the opening plenary there were also four Pre-conference workshops and EducationUSA was represented in the session titled 'Your Government Resources at Work and in Collaboration: U.S Department of State, EducationUSA and Consular Affairs and Department of Homeland Security-Student Exchange and Visitor Program’. As part of the second day of the conference all international representatives participated in the Global Arena to meet, network and collaborate with U.S community college representatives on international student enrollment.
CCID is a consortium of over 160 two-year colleges in the U.S and abroad. The CCID organization is working on all aspects of global vocational/professional education and training at community colleges. Through its memeber colleges over 500 technical and vocational programs and 15000 faculty and staff are represented.

South Asia Tour 2012

The EducationUSA advising centers and Embassies in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are arranging a fabulous tour for U.S educational representatives to meet with students in their countries from March 30 to April 17, 2012. The 2012 EducationUSA South Asia Tour will take representatives of accredited U.S. college and universities to Male (the Maldives), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Katmandu (Nepal), Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad (Pakistan) and Kabul (Afghanistan). In each of these cities, the EducationUSA centers will organize a college fair, arrange for school visits where possible, and conduct a country briefing for Tour participants. We want this to be a cultural experience as well as a recruitment opportunity, so we will offer (when possible) sightseeing and an introduction to the culture in each of the six cities. We would like you to leave each city with a better understanding of the context from which our students come.
The four universities visiting Pakistan from 9th to 14th April will be Albion College, University of Northern iowa, Valparaiso University and University at Buffalo (SUNY).