VCs Committee meeting calls for enhancing quality of higher education & research

LAHORE, May 25: The three-day Vice Chancellors’ Committee Meeting that ended here on Wednesday developed a consensus that the Higher
Education Commission (HEC) and universities across the country will make more concerted efforts to assure quality whether it is faculty appointment, student admissions, opening of new institutions and sub-campuses, curriculum development, offering new degree courses, granting affiliations, teaching and research or any other matter
related to higher education.
Concluding the session, Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, Chairman HEC appreciated all the Vice Chancellors for their active participation and discussing in detail various challenges being faced by higher education sector and deliberating possible solutions. He stressed the fact that implementation of quality criteria and other higher education policies in letter and spirit was inevitable for development of university education that is compatible with international standards. Shahnaz Wazir Ali, former Adviser to Prime Minister and currently President of SZABIST said that for all matters related to higher education, leadership has to come from HEC and there should not be different standards for different universities. She urged university heads and HEC to adopt a cohesive approach for policymaking and its implementation.-PR