Exploring Academia All about higher education & research

In the public sector universities in Pakistan, many times, situations of conflict of interest arise while dealing with the business of fresh hiring, projects management, procurement, consultancy, examinations and civil work where employees handling with these critically important and sensitive tasks have competing interests or changing loyalties used to be …

University portrays a distinct form of organizational structure for its widely represented powerful governing bodies and the presence of a top-down hierarchy. Universities are academic institutions supposed to have a long-term vision, mission, purpose, goals and objectives, nevertheless, these are getting professional bureaucracies accustomed to time-consuming decision-making processes followed by …

Universities are complex entities. Its governance is far more intricate than the public sector administration. There is a lack of deep understanding about the ways in which the public sector universities in Pakistan are regulated, managed and governed. Outside the ivory tower of academia, very little is known about it. …

Almost a year and a half back, when I was collecting my Ph.D. degree and transcript from my university, I haply ran across, one of my Ph.D. class-fellow, who was there to work with his supervisor on his Ph.D. research proposal/synopsis. I was stunned to see him, there. He was …

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 the public sector universities. The need for such indices has …

The saga of appointment of Shabnum Gul, the sister of Zartaj Gul, Minister of State for Climate Change, as Director National Counter Terrorism Authority received unprecedented media attention. The entire blizzard was mostly due to the effective role of the social media for its unbridled sharing of information and partly …

Knowing what to say and how to behave in an interview is critically important. The candidates should present themselves in a more composed manner in order to be selected. They should have to make a positive first impression and convince the interviewers that they would be a good fit for the job. …

Based upon my personal and professional life practical experiences, this article is aimed at providing useful insight, valuable guidance and help for the candidates in order to assist them prepare best for the job interview. This write-up provides a brief account of the misadventures on the part of the candidates, …

Numerous research studies revealed that a great deal of candidates turns up, on the day of the interview, off-the-cuff. Not because, they do not want to prepare themselves but for the reason that they do not understand, how to gear themselves up. Ironically, very few organizations, the prospective hirers or …

During a recent interview, for the position of an HR officer, I was attending in the capacity of the Head of the Department, one of the members of the interview panel emphasized to select a candidate, who was a professional and acclaimed musician, though he was quite an average, mediocre …