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.

This article takes stock of the financial health of the institutions of higher education in Pakistan, how it is getting worse and how the overall governance and financial sustainability of the public sector universities is becoming cumbersome.

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.

This blog post explores the prevailing filing system in the public sector universities, issues in the same and how to take certain corrective measures to improve its functioning and enhance its efficiency.

Bureaucracies, with their huge jumbles of paperwork and procedural red tape, often appear inefficient and outdated. Yet, beyond this facade of incompetence lies a more disconcerting reality: the archaic and cumbersome filing systems in government offices may not just be a byproduct of inertia but a deliberate tool for control. These systems, designed ostensibly for organization and record-keeping can obscure accountability, stall progress, and frustrate ordinary public to the point of despair. This blog post looks into how these intricate filing practices serve more than just bureaucratic convenience—they are instrumental in maintaining a grip on power, stifling dissent, and perpetuating a status quo that benefits the few at the expense of the many.