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Tough challenges May 12, 2021 Universities in Pakistan have suffered greatly in the last three years because of the misguided policies of the Higher Education Commission and the failure of its leadership to convince the government to provide proper and reasonable funding. The operational budget of the HEC has remained frozen since 2017, causing huge damage to the higher education sector. It was Rs63.18 bln in 2017-18, Rs65.02 bln in 2018-19, Rs64.10 bln 2019-20 and Rs64.10 bln in 2020-21. The grant per student enrolled has collapsed in dollar terms, which is relevant as research students sp...

Untangling the HEC’s timeline Opinion May 9, 2021 All the problems of the higher education sector are being laid at the feet of the HEC management being pushed out before the end of its term, by means of another ill-advised and poorly thought through ordinance that will cut short the HEC chairman’s tenure from four years down to two. At this point, it is worth examining some of the most significant and enduring problems in higher education, their timelines and, if we can, their origins. The HEC is being accused of training and hiring too few PhDs to work at universities. Selecting, send...

Share Researchers from the City Futures Research Centre at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture and UNSW Canberra have a marked presence in the 2021 projects funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute’s (AHURI) National Research Program. Their success builds on UNSW’s research strength in Urban and Regional Planning, confirmed by a 5 (well above world standard) in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2018 rankings, the most recent ERA round. UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Professor Nicholas Fisk applauded the researchers on their funding success. “UNSW h...

Date Time New funding reinforces UNSW’s strength in urban planning and housing research Projects for 2021 funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute are timely, practical and policy relevant. Researchers from the City Futures Research Centre at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture and UNSW Canberra have a marked presence in the 2021 projects funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute’s (AHURI) National Research Program. Their success builds on UNSW’s research strength in Urban and Regional Planning, confirmed by a 5 (well above world standard) in the Ex...

Higher education ravaged April 7, 2021 The HEC policies during the last three years led to a mushroom growth of 50 new universities, while simultaneously the programmes to develop highly qualified faculty were curtailed. Some 8,000 scholarships available for PhD level training, worth about 50 billion rupees, were held back by the HEC. This resulted in a sharp drop in the PhD level faculty-to-student ratio and a corresponding decline in the quality of education, since the quality of undergraduate and postgraduate education is directly dependent on the number and quality of qualified faculty ...