HEC Evaluates Working of Centres of Excellence

As a follow up to the comprehensive survey carried out by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to monitor the progress of working of the Centres of Excellence, a consultative session of the Directors of these Centres, the Vice Chancellors of the Universities where Centres are established and the representative of Ministry of Education was held at HEC Secretariat. Dr. Sohail H. Naqvi, Executive Director, HEC chaired the meeting.

The survey was aimed to monitor the progress of Centres in relation to their statutory functions like promotion of research in focused area of their specialization, training of human resource leading to award of MPhil and PhD degrees, dissemination of knowledge generated in shape of national and international publication by the faculty, organizing national and international seminars and symposia and to monitor meaningful utilization of funds.

During the consultative session, the Directors of Centres presented their academic development plan for the next three years and informed the meeting about their operational difficulties in presence of the Vice Chancellors.

There was complete unanimity of opinion and it was agreed to further promote interactive meetings of the Vice Chancellors with the Directors of the Centres. It was also agreed that the Vice Chancellors will facilitate convening of meeting of Board of Advance Studies and Research aimed at registration and production of more Research Scholars.

The Committee also agreed to appoint a Sub-Committee comprising three Directors and three nominees of the Vice Chancellors to further streamline the rules and regulations for working of the Centres of Excellence.