This blog post explains the role, powers and functions of the key governing bodies such as Senate and Syndicate in the public sector universities in Pakistan in order to bring to limelight the existing bottlenecks in their smooth functioning.

How the universities’ governance system is structured, how key decisions are being made, what are the major statutory bodies involved in it, how the overall academic administrative and financial business of the universities are run, managed and monitored, this blog post will address some of these important questions.

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.