Exploring Academia All about higher education & research

Instead of stepping in, to salvage academia in the hour of need, the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Higher Education Archives and Libraries Department imposed a ban on all kinds of appointments, recruitment and selection in the public sector universities in the province. The palpable reason is the emerging financial crisis. …

While presenting my PhD research proposal to the doctoral committee, one of the members asked, “gentleman everything is fine about your proposal but what is the theoretical or conceptual framework of your study”. I stood dumbfounded. I had absolutely no idea, till that very moment, what actually the theoretical or …

The PhD scholars and young researchers incessantly face difficulties while writing an effective abstract for the proposal, thesis or research article. It is not because there is something incredibly hard about it but because they really do not understand how to do it. They primarily do not make out when …

The important question that intrigues many minds is that what should be included in the PhD research proposal. Some generic guidelines about a perfect research proposal have already been given on “How to write an effective research proposal?”. This blog post shall provide valuable guidance and useful insight for the doctoral …

I completed my doctoral studies some three and a half years back. Yet, some of my doctoral fellows are embarrassingly got stuck at the research proposal stage of their PhD. My sincere sympathies are with them, anyway. A little probe into the matter revealed that they share a major part …

Institutions of higher education in Pakistan are passing through a very critical juncture in the history of its establishment. The federal government has tightened up over-flowing funds to the public sector universities. Consequently, the educational institutions have been experiencing stiff financial crunch. This wretched kind of situation remained the hottest …

A Facebook user on the group-‘PhD Support Group’, asked a simple question on the group, “Why the majority of research students face depression?: Mine is lack of support from the supervisors and yours”. This narration precisely reflects the unsettled, depressed and confused state of mind; some of my colleagues had …

It has been a year since I started blogging. I embarked on this exciting enterprise as a passion. The vision was not to educate others but to explore new horizons. The ambition was to come out of the comfort zone, challenge myself and contribute more positively to the area of …

The idea of starting my personal blog overwhelmed my mind for quite some time. Nevertheless, time constraints, pressing professional engagements and increasing academic obligations impeded my progress. At least two of my close associates used to reiterate that they were going to launch their blogs, inviting me to contribute to …

Universities are autonomous bodies having a complex organizational structure. A uniform Act, diverging statutes, elusive rules and cumbersome regulations are the hallmarks of the statutory business in the public sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Serious efforts were undertaken in the past to revise the prevailing Statutes, Rules and Regulations in …