This blog post discusses how the universities’ employees’ protest demonstration to press for their genuine demands of salary increase and allocation of sufficient funds to the universities has adversely impacted the academic life in the universities and what the government should do to resolve the issue on war footings.

This blog post is aimed at discussing the following important areas: 1. Implications of the unprecedented budgetary cut on the public sector universities in Pakistan 2. Approach of coalition government toward higher education sector in Pakistan 3. Reaction from the Vice-Chancellor of Public Sector Universities, 4. Response from HEC 5. The way out.

This blog post takes a stock of the current state of the financial crisis in the public sector universities in the backdrop of the recently announced bailout package by the government for the six public sector universities in the province

This blog post has made three important points. One, the universities across the length and breadth of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa suffered a great deal, on account of recent budgetary constraints. Second, the financial problems of the universities are getting unmanageable with each passing day with no respite in sight. Last but not least, it was the civilian administration under which the universities experienced financial difficulties more than the military regime. With the current state of affairs being considered as transitory, it is said that the government is trying to resolve the issue and soon the situation will get better.

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.

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.

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.

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.