The news that Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine has taken the social media by storm. It…
How to overcome inordinate delays in recruitment and selection in Universities in Pakistan?
“Seats of higher learning are not only characterized or defined in terms of bricks and mortar but rather also more importantly in terms of the people that run and serve them. It is therefore essential…
Appointment of new Vice Chancellors: Demands urgent attention of the Government in Pakistan
The higher education sector in Pakistan is in deep crisis. At least 51 out of 154 public sector universities across the country, which translates to roughly 33.12% of the total, are functioning without regular Vice…
How Political Parties in Pakistan Prioritize Higher Education and Universities in their Election Manifestos: A Comparative Look.
Higher education plays a pivotal role in national development and unsurprisingly, it features prominently in the manifestos of various political parties vying for power in the 2024 Pakistani elections. However, the level of prioritization and…
Universities’ Employees hold protest demonstration to press for their genuine demands of salary increase and allocation of sufficient funds to the Universities
Thousands of the teaching faculty, university administrative officers, support staff and non-teaching employees of all caders of different universities staged a protest in the University of Peshawar main campus to press the provincial government for…
Emerging Financial Crisis in the Public Sector Universities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and its deep-rooted ramifications.
The public sector universities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa are reported to be in the grip of a severe financial crunch once again and the three major universities (i.e., University of Peshawar (UoP), Islamia College University, Peshawar (ICUP),…