PESHAWAR, Aug 20: Speakers at a one-day seminar urged the students to choose right courses at the right time if they want to excel in the field of information technology and find attractive jobs in future.

The seminar was organized by Brains Post-graduate College of Information Technology, Peshawar, at a local hotel to facilitate and educate students, parents, professionals and general public in the field of IT.

The seminar was divided into two sessions where IT experts drawn from reputed IT firms dwelt at length regarding the utility and importance of the computer knowledge.

Director of the Brain Degree College, Zafarullah Khan while presenting his welcome address, said the institute was involved in the promotion of IT education in the Frontier since 1993. During this period, he said they had computerised the functioning of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar, Swat, Bannu and Abbottabad. He said they were in contact with the government to install computer network in other government departments which he said would help the government in maintenance of the records of the department concerned and subsequently the people would be facilitated.

According to him, they were imparting IT education to the students through highly professional and trained teachers due to which his institute had produced countless IT professionals who, he said were presently working at responsible posts in different government and semi-government and private organisations.

An IT expert, Mr Saeed Qadri said there were a lot of IT outlets claiming to provide education to the students but urged the aspirants to select the right institutions for their studies so that they could be become thoroughly professionals after completion of their courses.

Another expert, Abdul Aziz Khaksar was of the view that the computerisation of the departments had greatly helped  the government and the people. He said the computerisation of examination system of the secondary boards had  eliminated corruption and tampering of records to a great extent. After the computerisation, the admission, examination and compilation of results had registered a remarkable improvement. Not this but it had also saved time of the official concerned, he said, adding that the manual system of examination was faulty as well as time consuming.

Ms Parveen Qazi spoke about the geographical importance of the information technology. She informed the participants about the geographical significance of the IT education.

The second session of the seminar was exclusively based on the theme “IT for Corporate Sectors”. Professionals from leading multinationals  like IBM and NCR gave a broad vision  to professionals about the key role jobs IT in the development and enrichment of their careers. Vice-chancellor of the Virtual University and chairman of the IT Board NWFP also spoke on the occasion.   Speakers including IT consultants and representatives  of leading  IT companies also spoke at length regarding  the importance of technological development in society for the overall development of Pakistan. A large number of students attended the seminar.