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Public universities should meet world standards: governor
LAHORE, Sept 15: Punjab University chancellor
governor Lt Gen (r) Khalid Maqbool said on Friday that public universities
should bring at par their departments with international standards and
irrelevant departments should be dissolved.
Addressing vice chancellors
of the province's public universities on the second day of the meeting on public
universities' sub-campuses, Maqbool said the sub-campus of the Punjab University
in Gujranwala was a model that other public universities could adopt. He said
the sub-campus had encouraged the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the
government to extend public universities through sub-campuses. He said
sub-campuses were providing education to the people in remote areas. He said
these sub-campuses should be given the status of independent institutes but the
link with their parent schools should also be kept. He said students studying at
the sub-campus should be provided opportunity to visit their parent school. He
said the government was trying to provide all necessary facilities including
hostels, libraries and land and that the HEC would help universities in this
regard. He also mentioned some university departments in some areas that were
consuming more resources and producing less results.
HEC member planning
commission Dr Mukhtar Ahmed said on the occasion that the HEC had begun numerous
projects for promoting education and that the HEC would help universities in
upgrading their infrastructure. He said the HEC had approved various
universities' demands and that he would forward proposals of various projects in
this regard to the HEC chairman for the final approval. He said presently 6,000
faculty members were required for upgrading, adding that the commission various
faculty members were being sent to foreign countries for PhD studies. He said
various universities' buildings were being also upgraded. He said the HEC was
trying to have teacher student ratio to one teacher on 20 students. Daily Times
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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