Higher education reforms
April 28, 2021
The single most important factor that determines the quality of both undergraduate and postgraduate education is the quality of faculty. At present, only about 25 percent of the faculty members in our universities have PhD degrees, and the ratio of PhD level faculty to student is a dismal 1: 100 approximately. It should be 1: 20, or preferably 1:10.
Clearly, the HEC should have focused on training thousands of bright young men and women at top universities abroad, and then attracting them back through offer of jobs in universities, good salaries, research grants, and access to libraries and equipment. The ex-chairman, Dr Tariq Banuri, did exactly the opposite.
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150 prominent citizens demand withdrawal of HEC (Amend) Ordinance
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April 26, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Some 150 prominent academics and civil society leaders have written a strongly-worded open letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan demanding the withdrawal of the HEC Amendment ordinance and restoration of the HEC as an independent national regulatory body.
The government had promulgated the HEC (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 on 25 March 2021, through which the tenure of the chairperson was reduced from 4 to 2 years, the current Chair Dr. Tariq Banuri was removed from his position, and HEC was placed under the Federal Ministry of Education.
The signatories of the letter include senior educationists, vice chancellors, journalists, former ambassadors, generals and other government officials, parliamentarians, and human rights activists. They include such names as LUMS founder Syed Babar Ali, human rights activists Ms Hina Jilani, Harris Khalique and Karamat Ali, Council of Islamic Ideol
Is Pakistan’s Leadership Turning It Into A Pariah?
Higher education is the latest victim of the state’s rampant demolition of important institutions AP/PTI File Photo outlookindia.com 2021-04-26T17:09:44+05:30
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The destruction of important institutions is going on blatantly in Pakistan under the patronage of state at a pace faster than deforestation.
Yesterday, the timber mafia chopped the trees. Today, the crime is a legal and lucrative business. The land mafia purchases agricultural land at throwaway prices, converts it into a posh housing society and makes a killing overnight. The art has been best mastered by the Pakistani Army, that runs a network of huge elite-class housing societies in different cities under its Defense Housing Authority (DHA) scheme. It has recently launched a DHA in Multan. There are reports in the media that it has chopped hundreds of thousands of mango trees in Multan to pave way for the housing colony. It has denied such
‘HEC regional offices being run on ad hoc basis’
Karachi
April 22, 2021
During the last three years in the federal Higher Education Commission (HEC), where the most important post of executive director (ED) has not been permanently filled, the regional offices in the provinces have also been run on an ad hoc basis, it has been learnt.
There is a mockery of merit as 17th grade assistant directors or 18th grade deputy directors have been appointed instead of 19th or 20th grade directors general or directors. According to details, Shafi-ur-Rehman, assistant director of Grade 17 in Regional Centre Peshawar, Ahsan Hameed, assistant director Grade 17 in Regional Centre Quetta, Hakeem Talpur, deputy director Grade 18 in Regional Centre Karachi, and Shehzad Abbasi at Regional Centre Lahore have been posted during last three years. The Bahawalpur sub office was closed last year.
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