Reforms

Navigating the Transition: Challenges and Opportunities in Upgrading Medical Colleges to Universities

The caretaker Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Justice (retired) Syed Arshad Hussain Shah recently announced the upgradation of Khyber Medical College (KMC) Peshawar and Ayub Medical College (AMC) Abbottabad to the status of medical universities. He…

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…

How 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…

The startling ramifications of the proposed amendments in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities’ Act.

To be tabled in the Provincial Assembly over the next few days, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities (Amendment) Act 2021 is intended to introduce some grave changes in the legislation enacted by the Government of Khyber…