Environmental degradation
There is the Cerrejon thermal coal mine in Colombia -- jointly owned by Glencore and two other transnational companies, BHP and Anglo American -- whose expansion over the past 40…
HEC session on fake degree issue next week
Chairman of the Higher Education Commission Dr Tariq Banuri on Monday announced that he would address the issue of fake degrees in a live session on March 17. According to…
Two-year degrees are essential
THIS refers to the letter `Reckless policy on two-year degrees` (Jan 3). I wish to present another angle of the matter concerned. At present, several postgraduate students are enrolled in…
Two-year degrees
THE year 2020 saw things that had never happened before. Although it remained cataclysmic for students because of the sudden closure of educational institutions owing to Covid-19, it could not…
HEC warns people to be careful about fraudsters in degree attestation
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has warned the general public to be aware from the fake agents, who were deceiving the applicants on the name of degree and transcripts attestation.…
Degree inflation
Public-sector employers are legally obligated to treat all job applicants with the same degrees from accredited programs as equivalent, no matter the reputation of the universities. However, private-sector employers are…
HEC approves degrees of PMAS-AAUR
The Quality Assurance Agency (CAA) of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan has approved 54 degrees including three MS, one MSC, nine MSc (Hons), 18 MPhil and 23 PhD degrees of…
HEC approves 54 postgraduate degrees for Arid university
The quality assurance agency (QAA)of Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved 54 degrees under postgraduate programmes offered at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi. The decision was taken…
HEC: degree attestation
I HAVE done my bachelors in chemical engineering (BE) in 2016 from the University of Karachi, which is a university recognised by the Higher Education Commission (HEC). I am also…
