Postgraduate students, research scholars, fellows and colleagues usually seek help for a ready made topic for their research work. Believing that some of them were doing it out of their passion, others were pursuing it…
Dr Syed Hafeez Ahmad
Why the financial crisis is getting worse in the universities in Pakistan?
Higher education institutes in Pakistan are walking a financial tightrope, these days. As reported by an esteemed English daily, as many as 15 public sectors universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are facing severe financial crisis. This…
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The 03 important models for effective university-industry collaboration
In the contemporary global environment, borders between the public and private sector, academia and industry are fastly disappearing, giving way to a system of overlapping interaction and collaboration. Resultantly, new organizational structures and cultures are…
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The 05 key driving forces for university-industry collaboration
The partnership between universities and industries is believed to be a major collaborative effort on the part of the two distinct and diverging enterprises- academia and industry sharing their knowledge, skills set and resources in…
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The 02 important reasons why the Vice-Chancellor of a Technology University resigned?
At a time when the government has launched its flagship program, the “Digital Pakistan”, Prof Dr Qamarul Wahab, the Vice-Chancellor of the sole technology university, (i.e. University of Technology (UOT) Nowshera) has resigned from his…
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Digital Pakistan: Is a new technological revolution in the making?
The “Digital Pakistan” was launched recently. Well-done team, “Digital Pakistan”. Better late than never. The government deserves credit for the initiative. Since independence, this is the first project, that has the potential to revolutionize the…
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The 05 important reasons why policymakers should amend the Universities’ Act
To be tabled in the provincial assembly soon, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Universities (Amendment) Act 2020 is intended to introduce some radical changes and important amendments in the legislation enacted by the government in 2012 and subsequently…
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The critically important amendments in the Universities’ Act made in 2016 and how it transformed the universities?
In a recent blog post, the implications of the major amendments made in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities’ Act, 2012 were discussed. The ramifications of some of these amendments led to further changes, modifications and adjustments…
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Implications of the 15 important amendments in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities’ Act, 2012
In the previous blog post, the 12 major amendments in the Universities’ Acts were discussed. The legal and administrative complications generated by some of these amendments led to further reforms in the Act which resulted…
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The 12 major amendments in the Universities Acts and their implications.
In the previous blog post, the ultimate guide to the important amendments in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities’ Act, the background knowledge and contextual understanding of the various amendments made in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Universities Act has…
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