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HEC establishes directorates at six universities
Karachi, Nov 23, 2007: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has initiated a process of
bringing the private students of universities in the mainstream so that quality
education for private students may be ensured.
In the third meeting of
experts on distance education held recently at the HEC, Islamabad, it was
decided that initially six universities of the country will have the directorate
of distance education with a cost of 6.3 million, and for the first year, funds
will be provided by the HEC, Islamabad.
After the year of establishment,
their funds will be made available to the recurring grant of the universities.
The universities selected for the purpose of establishment of the
directorate for distance education are University of Punjab,
Lahore, Bahauddin Zakriya University, Multan, University of Peshawar,
Peshawar, University of Karachi, Karachi, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, and
University of Balochistan, Quetta.
These universities are selected for
the pilot project on the basis of the number of private students' registration
under them. It was observed that due to the ineffective system of enrolling and
examination of Private students mostly do not compete with the regular
students.
As a result, their employment ratio is very low to the regular
one. To improve this, it was recommended that from now on all private students
will be called distance students. There will be a proper curricula, written
material and interaction with the facilitator during the study period, and their
monitoring and evaluation will be practiced.
The PC-1 for the
establishment of directorate was agreed by the participants with a few suggested
changes, and will be presented for approval in the next DDWP meeting of the HEC.
The key objective of this pilot project is to bring the degrees of private and
distant students at par with regular students with quality provision across the
board. The News
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