Monthly Archives May 2022

Hard times ahead for public sector universities in Pakistan as the federal govt indicates cutting the HEC budget by half

Instead of enhancing the Higher Education Commission’s budget, which was already slashed by the PTI government over the last 03 years, the recently set up coalition government in Islamabad has proposed quashing it by more…

The PTI Government’s plan to establish a university in the Prime Minister’s House shall be trashed soon.

The announcement made by one of the ministers of the PML-N-led coalition government to scrap the projects initiated by the PTI Government including the widely publicized scheme of establishment of a state-of-the-art international level university…

The Financial Assistance by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the few selected Universities left some emerging universities in the lurch.

The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recently accorded approval for a bailout package, to the tune of Rs. 1.985 billion for the public sector universities in the province in the backdrop of serious financial crunch these…