This blog post is aimed at underlining some of the pressing challenges confronted by the public sector in Pakistan so that the newly appointed academic heads pay special attention to address it. These mainly embrace: i). prevailing administrative vacuum, ii). Looming financial crunch, iii). Digitalization and iv). Politically motivated meddling in the universities’ affairs.

The blog post is aimed at bringing to the limelight three important challenges, the newly appointed academic heads should pay particular attention to. These include financial crises, digitalization and political intervention in the universities affairs.

This blog post takes a look at the background of the digitalization initiatives in the public sector universities in Pakistan, how much ground has been covered, major bottlenecks and challenges faced by the universities in going digital and what needs to be done by the universities to digitalize its official business.