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.