Proposals to HEC over CIIT degree issue

LAHORE
Eminent educationist Syed Abidi has said that Higher Education Commission (HEC) has three options for Comsats Institute for Information Technology (CIIT) vis-à-vis its Dual Degree Programme (DDP) issue. Talking to this correspondent on Thursday, Syed Abidi said in a recent discussion with Chairman HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, the Commission’s chairman had shared three options over the DDP issue of CITT. 1. As a onetime solution CIIT can offer their own local degree which would be acceptable to HEC and Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), 2. CIIT can offer a joint degree bearing signatures of both the Vice-Chancellors and on all transcripts which should be accredited by the UK Engineering Council/IET and subsequently by PEC/HEC and 3. CIIT can offer a standalone Lancaster degree which should keep their local approvals from relevant authorities that can be justified and again acceptable to PEC/HEC.