This blog post takes stock of the gravity of financial crisis in the universities with focus on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The write-up is aimed not only at spotlighting the agonies of the employees but also providing guidelines for the university’s top management how to guard themselves against such eventualities in the future.

I had a chance to read the Ishrat Husain bestseller, “Governing the Ungovernable”. The book makes an attempt to look into the underlying reasons behind Pakistan’s economic turmoil, volatile social development and inequitable growth rate and argues that the major cause for the hubbub is institutional failure to govern. This blog will help the readers to have a quick overview of what is in the book and I hope they will find it of immense interest.

In this blog post, the major governance issues confronted by the institutions of higher education in Pakistan are delineated in order to provide policymakers and academic leadership with valuable insight for future reforms.

This article highlights some of the key HR trends in the universities and higher education institutions in Pakistan. The HR managers, policymakers, management practitioners and academics need to take cognizance of these environmental forces, while formulating HR policies and strategies.

Many people outside the academia and numerous insiders hardly understand the nature, content, purpose, scope, recommending, approving and disapproving bodies of the laws and by-laws prevailing in the public sector universities in Pakistan. This blog post is intended to address some of these important points unaccounted for since long.

The Higher Education Department (HED), Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for the first time, in the history of public sector universities in the province, has delineated some useful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for effective performance appraisal of the Vice Chancellors of public sector universities. This is a remarkable first step towards a broad-based, deep-rooted and wholesale development on the landscape of higher education in the country. This blog post takes a look of the ins and outs of these KPIs.