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As the appointment of Vice-Chancellors of eight public sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is in the final stage, the Higher Education, Archives and Libraries Department has formally moved a summary, based on the names proposed by the Academic and Search Committee following the panel interviews held in Islamabad last week, …

This blog post is aimed at sensitizing the doctoral students about these impending issues with a point that they do not feel despair if some of their expectations were not met. These are discussed here in detail.

This article is intended to find answers to some of the intriguing questions that trouble the PhD students, doctoral candidates and research scholars while writing their PhD research proposal. What important questions an excellent research proposal must address? Irrespective of your level of education, regardless of the research area you …

Once I negotiated with the embarrassment, I experienced during the PhD research proposal presentation stage, discussed in my early blog- Writing a theoretical framework for a PhD thesis: How important it is?, I started afresh, the search of a theory to support my proposed research work and help conceptualize a …

The internal friction, maladministration and bad governance in public sector universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa unveiled in a classic case of organizational degeneration overtime when the Registrar of a well-established public sector university was reported to have filed a writ petition in the Peshawar High Court against the decision of the …

The public sector universities in Pakistan are confronting numerous challenges. Some of these are analysed in the blog post, “The 07 major challenges confronted by the Higher Education Institutes”. However, the most pressing among these encompass but not limited to the centralization of authority, excessive bureaucracy, financial indiscipline and relentless …

In the previous blog post, ‘02 years performance of PTI Government and miserable condition of universities in Pakistan’, some of the major areas where the incumbent government flunked to deliver on, were listed. This blog post takes a much closer and deeper look at these important points. 1. The burgeoning …

The PTI Government came to power with some dazzling slogans, eye-popping promises and amazingly impressive commitments to mesmerise the electorates. One such catchy line was to establish a world-class university in the Prime Minister House. The PM, Imran Khan reiterated his commitment umpteenth times, on numerous occasions that he would …

Contrary to the past, the Higher Education, Archives and Libraries Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has started consultation with all stakeholders with regard to the proposed amendments in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities’ Act. The Department has also started a broad-based consultative process, in collaboration with a team from Institute of …

The last two decades witnessed exponential growth in the higher education sector in Pakistan. The landscape of HE, science and technology in the country has transformed in an unprecedented manner. The rapid developments made during the period was breathtaking. The number of universities increased multiple times. The existing ones were …