HEC has taken substantial steps for the improvement in the standard of higher education, status of universities, and research in science and technology. As the present century is being tipped as the century of biology with the completion of human genome project, it is the biologists who can help to unravel the mysteries of etiology of many diseases, in the development of diagnostics and therapeutics and production of life saving drugs and vaccines.
The programs for training of faculty members, Researchers and other scientific/ technical staff of public sector universities and degree awarding institutions is launched by HEC to support short term training in their fields of interest. These programs have been designed with the objective to accelerate the quantum of research and development in our institutes while recognizing that such programs are catalytic to the technological and socio-economic development of the country...
These programs as initiated by the Higher Education Commission provide improvement in quality of education and increase external and internal efficiency of university education. It also envisages in upgrading the quality of research through staff development and provision of better facilities.
The schemes under these programs provide an opportunity to our institutes benefiting from highly qualified teachers and scientists of other universities for a shorter duration and various activities...
The Higher Education Commission has launched various programs of collaboration with other international bodies to enhance the research and training capacity of higher education institutions of Pakistan. These programs are initiated to establish linkages between universities or a specific department of universities of Pakistan to the international universities of departments for a period of few years.
Pakistan does not have a rich
tradition of authorship, particularly in the scientific and technical
disciplines. Also, there is also lack of detailed information on topics of the
syllabi for students in pursuit of acquiring in depth knowledge of an area in a
particular subject. There is also serious shortage of quality textbooks and
other supporting...
