The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has stopped the medical universities from getting the Medical and Dental Colleges Admission Test (MDCAT) conducted by testing bodies and asked the universities to conduct…
Budget allocations should be read as reflections of the true priority accorded to sectors and programmes. Insufficient budgetary allocations to programmes incur delays, cost overruns and poor /delayed social impact.…
University governance is much more complex than what many believe, including those in government who intervene in university affairs. In reality, unless one has actually worked in a senior administrative…
The Senate Standing Committee on Federal Education and Professional Training was briefed on the performance of Quality Enhancement Cells (QECs) of the universities that were assessed during 2019-20, and not…
We now carry out an appraisal of the measures in the budget, starting with the enumeration of the key initiatives proposed to push the economy onto a higher growth path…
President Dr Arif Alvi on Tuesday asked the universities to increase the proportion of online education as it was cost-effective and would also help the students get easy access to…
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) and university heads have agreed to provide provisional admission to A2 students, whose exams have been postponed to October 2021, in the Fall 2021 semester…
The nine government universities established in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last five years are struggling to meet salary and other expenditure due to the denial of funds…
National security is no longer connected only with the sophisticated weapons available to a country. It is directly concerned with economic security. That, in turn, is dependent on the quality…
Ever since the current government assumed charge in Islamabad, there has been a renewed discussion about a ‘uniform curriculum’. In its desire to introduce uniformity, the Ministry of Education should…
