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 seats of advanced learning have been facing since long. This blog post examines how the …
Read More »The 02 years performance of PTI Government and miserable condition of universities in Pakistan
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 …
Read More »The 05 alarming trends of drug addiction in the universities in Pakistan
Recently, the law enforcement agencies arrested an alleged smuggler who used to supply drugs and ecstasy pills to the students of various educational institutions (i.e. schools, colleges and universities) in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The accused, an Afghan national, was arrested the other day in the second largest city …
Read More »The precarious filing system in the universities: How to fix it?
The present-day universities are functioning in an increasingly complex and turbulent surrounding. To meet the challenges of the competitive academic environment, flexibility and openness are getting critically important for the survival of academia. The public higher education institutions are required to adapt to changes in its working arrangement to outsmart …
Read More »The wretched filing system in government offices: A tool for sinister bureaucratic control
In the age when revolutionary reforms are taking place in the workplace, the archaic filling system still holds a crtically important place as a part of the official business in the government offices in Pakistan. Being labour intensive, the manual filing system always has a poor tracking mechanism. Besides, it …
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