Federal funding for universities
UNIVERSITIES in Pakistan are again in the news — once again for the wrong reasons. The issue this time is that the federal government has decided to stop giving annual…
Pakistan’s universities at 75
AT birth, Pakistan inherited Punjab University in Lahore, the only among the Raj’s 16 universities. Seventy-five years later, there are 120-plus officially recognised universities. Roughly an equal number of non-recognised…
More universities…
OVER the last year, the Punjab government has announced the setting up of 10 new universities. Not all of these are being created from scratch. Some of these universities are…
Universities going on hunger strike while HEC building new secretariat
University of Balochistan faculty members have set up a hunger strike camp at the Campus for non-payment of their salaries and demanded the government of Pakistan to resolve the issues…
Universities directed to take measures for transparency in MDCAT
Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) President Prof Dr Rizwan Taj has directed all universities to take complete measures to ensure that the upcoming Medical and Dental Colleges’ Admission Test…
Budget neglect puts AJK’s public universities in jeopardy
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has yet to respond to an urgent SOS from the region’s six public-sector universities which are on the brink of collapse due to…
Universities and the financial tightrope
In an oped in these pages a few weeks earlier (‘Defunding of public higher education’, March 29), I wrote about the review conducted by the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC)…
VCs call for halting establishment of new universities
In a concerted effort to address the pressing challenges faced by the higher education sector, the Vice Chancellors’ Committee was convened for a two-day meeting in Islamabad with participation of…
MoUs inked with universities for promotion of human rights education
In order to promote human rights education among university students, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with a number of Higher Education Institutions…
Universities asked to play effective role in highlighting Kashmir issue
The government has asked universities of the country to play more effective role to highlight Kashmir issue among students and youth. To highlight issues of people of Indian occupied Kashmir,…
