Japanese counsellor pays visit to Waljat College

MUSCAT: Shinichi Yamanaka, counsellor and Katsuya Tamaki, second secretary, Embassy of Japan visited Waljat College of Applied Sciences under the auspices of the newly launched College Out Reach Programme (CORP). The programme aims to provide a forum to students to share their concern for society, provide information and knowledge about vital issues of health, safety and environment protection to others, organise visits to other institutions and colleges for purpose of mutual benefit and invite experts to understand opportunities for higher studies and research. Yamanaka shared his views on different areas including initiating relationship between the college and different universities in Japan. He informed about different programmes offered by the 765 Japanese universities and its link and application time frame. He brought to the notice of the audience that at present 148,000 students from different nationalities are studying in Japan in different universities and this number would cross 300,000 by the year 2020. Yamanaka spoke about the Japanese scholarship programme for post graduate studies and two assured seats for Omani students. The lecture was followed by question and answer session. The visiting officials had a meeting with Dr Mohan Varma, Dean WCAS and discussed the matters of mutual interest. Dr G. P. Mishra, Associate Professor in the Department of Management received the guests and proposed the vote of thanks.