The writer is the former chairman of the HEC, and president of the Network of Academies of Science of OIC Countries (NASIC).
Universities can be harbingers of change. We have seen how the Oxford and Cambridge universities contributed to the development of the United...
Recently a brainstorming session was held in the Ministry of Science & Technology to consider the draft of the National Science, Technology and...
The Knowledge Economy Task Force chaired by the prime minister had its first meeting in January 2019 when the roadmap presented by me in my capacity...
Following the establishment of the Higher Education Commission in 2002, and my appointment as its Founding Chairman, we decided to give the highest...
Natural resources have diminishing importance and it is the quality of our human resources that will determine our future.
Within 50 miles of Islamabad, off the main motorway to Peshawar, an exciting new university has emerged. Called the Pak-Austrian Fachhochschule, it...
Universities in Pakistan have suffered greatly in the last three years because of the misguided policies of the Higher Education Commission and the...
The single most important factor that determines the quality of both undergraduate and postgraduate education is the quality of faculty. At present,...
The HEC policies during the last three years led to a mushroom growth of 50 new universities, while simultaneously the programmes to develop highly...
The higher education sector has been under the spotlight recently because of the removal of Dr Tariq Banuri. It is stated by some that he was...
