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HEC instructs universities to fire plagiarist faculty
LAHORE, Aug 19: Higher Education Commission
(HEC) has instructed public universities to send reports of their plagiarising
faculty members and fire them, said HEC executive director Dr Sohail Naqvi on
Saturday.
He said the HEC would stop funding the public universities that
would not forward their reports. He said the new plagiarism policy was discussed
in the HEC meeting and was approved by all the members present. He said the new
policy spelt out very clearly that plagiarism was subject to termination of
job.
He said the policy would be sent to all the universities so that
their statutory bodies could formally adopt and implement it, adding that HEC
had agreed that the universities not following the governance and quality
criteria would have their development and recurring projects
curtailed.
He said that HEC had a plagiarism software, which had already
been sent to nine public universities, including the Punjab University. He said
HEC members agreed that teachers should serve as role models for their students
and that there should be zero tolerance for plagiarists. According to an HEC
official, Dr Naqvi told the meeting that HEC programmes were producing high
quality research, improving standards of education and making university
education relevant to national needs. The official said that Naqvi highlighted
scholarships for studying in universities in the technologically advanced
countries, and said that 2,000 scholarships had already been awarded while 1,000
more would be awarded during the current financial year.
The official
said the commission also approved the selection board's recommendations
regarding the appointment of three people as 'distinguished national
professors'.
He said that Dr Attaur Rehman, HEC chairman, told the
meeting that HEC was striving to improve the quality of faculty, as it was the
mainstay of the learning process. Daily times
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| Education News | | Updated: 22 May, 2012 |
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