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LAHORE: CEO of Dignosco, Pakistan, Ata Ur Rahman has said that due to the lack of counselling experts in our educational institutions, a large array of scholarship and admissions opportunities are left untapped.

Upon addressing the attendees at a press meet, the Dignosco team added that most universities in the US, UK and many other countries are willing to accept and fund international students provided that their applications are on the standard with the rest of the student base. They emphasized that due to a lack of a full-time dedicated group of counsellors provided to students during high school, most are left without direction or guidance with regards to the ever-competitive college admissions process.

For this purpose, Dignosco took an initiative to counsel students from the start of these admissions processes, he added. They went on saying that Dignosco also provides counselling to students who can't afford expensive education in Pakistan as well as foreign universities.

They further claimed that through their counseling service, students have managed to pay tuition fee of foreign universities lower than Pakistan's elite universities. If a student studies in a university of United States, he has to bear Rs. 40 to Rs. 90 lac per year, but through their service, their students are paying only Rs 3 to 10 lacs or even nothing in some cases, he observed. They further commented that they select students only on the basis of their educational qualifications and achievements rather than their statuses, they said adding that they have sent abroad on free charges students belonging to Balochistan as they were unable to afford high fee of foreign universities.

They were of the view that due to improper counselling provided by educational institutions, the number of Paksitani's visiting western countries has dropped as compared to neighboring countries. All leading private educational schools, colleges and universities do not provide counselling to their students as they believe that they are doing enough in this regard but actually they are doing nothing on counseling students, they added.

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