In compliance with the Sindh High Court’s orders, the University of Karachi last month withdrew the appointment and promotion letters of nine faculty members designated as professors and.
Emerging trends and challenges to higher education in Pakistan
Islamabad
May 10, 2021
Education, especially higher education plays a very pivotal role in transformation and development of a nation. Higher education institutions impart the knowledge and skills to youth and make them ready for shouldering future responsibilities of running the whole system of a country. Moreover, besides teaching and learning universities are the places where knowledge is created, which further adds to importance of these institutions in the development of a nation. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic besides other walks of life also badly affects the educational activities throughout the world. Pakistan is no exception, however, the question arises here that even prior to the present pandemic higher education institutions in Pakistan were discharging their responsibilities which they were supposed to perform. Was there any pragmatic linkage between university and industry? Could the university g
HEC to give provisional university admissions to A level students
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The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has decided to provide provisional university admissions to final year A level students whose exams have been postponed to the October-November session.
The students will be given admissions for Fall 2021 so that they don’t waste an entire educational year.
âHEC after consultations with the Covid-19 oversight committee representing vice-chancellors from each province and region and heads of a few private sector universities has agreed to provide provisional admission to A2 students in the Fall 2021 semester so that they would not waste a session,â stated a press release issued by commission.
‘HEC ignores VCs in higher education policy making’
Islamabad
April 27, 2021
Islamabad : The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) did not take all stakeholders, especially vice chancellors of universities, on board while making policies regarding higher education during the last two or three years, remarked speakers at the consultative meeting of Vice Chancellors of Pakistan on ‘Emerging Trends and Challenges of Higher Education.’
The meeting was jointly arranged by Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and Quaid-i-Azam University at the main campus of AIOU. Vice Chancellors across the country participated in the meeting physically as well as online. VC, AIOU, Prof. Dr. Zia Ul-Qayyum while delivering a welcome address, thanked all the worthy guests to gather for a noble cause and highlighted the objectives of the meeting.
Turning a new page
April 11, 2021
The emergence of Germany in the 21st century as a developed economy, liberal democracy and a multicultural pluralistic society is a testimony to the strength of German culture and the resilience of its people. In a world of converging interests, it has become essential for states to harness synergies for the benefit of their peoples. This interdependence, irrespective of the level of development of countries, has become the need of the hour, as the world comes together to address and ameliorate the social and economic chaos created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is in this spirit of convergence and interdependence that the visit of the Foreign Minister of Pakistan Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi to Berlin from 11-13 April 2021 assumes heightened significance in further strengthening Pakistan’s outreach to Germany, the economic and political powerhouse of European Union. The visit also coincides with the 70 years of establishment of bilateral relat