Devolution of the HEC

The argument for retaining the HEC should be based on certain criteria.Like any other organization,its budget must be critically examined.The amount of money spent on recurring expenditure of the institution must be justified and the people running the HEC must represent all the provinces in real terms.As you dont need an Einstein for the allocation of Funds to different universities and students studying abroad,money should be wisely spent on hiring good accountants rather than fat salaried intellectuals who simply affix their thumbs on proposals presented to them by their assistants.
The small provinces or those that lack powerfull representations in the UGC are always deprived of funds on one pretext or another.The argument for UGC for its role in the degree cases of the legislatures is not enough to convince a neutral person as the requirement of a degree for the public representatives is no more valid and is a political issue. UGC as a purely educational setup unnecessarily involved itself in a political issue and was instrumental in creating lots of hardship for its partners. Why UGC involved itself in an issue which is not primarily its function,beats the logic. Degrees are issued by the Universities not by the UGC.The concerned V.Cs are reponsible for all the degrees issued by their universities,as they and their controllers of examination signs every degree using a special ink.The Provinces were always deprived of their rights by giving untennable arguments.Let the blinds, if we are blinds,run their homes by themselves as it is not possible to run others affairs indefinetely.Thank you MR BIG BROTHER. You have been very kind to us.God bless you.

affair indefinitely.The small provinces have been listening to this argument for more than sixty years.It is now time to say thank you mr BIG BROTHER.Recommend

Why not convert HEC into a management and control body which would be responsible for steering the outputs of all provincial universities….

HEC focus must be strategic and not operationalRecommend

The expansionist mindset of HEC bosses, and a tendency on its part to micro-control the universities is destroying the autonomy of universities. HEC is trying to assume a role broader than its minimal character of a regulating authority for curriculum and allocation of research grants. With present trend we are going to have only one university based in Islamabad and run by a supra-Vice-Chancellor (top HEC bureaucrat) and its many branches like QAU, PU, KU etc all over the country.

With mindless influx of big money during Mush-Atta regime, HEC has grown into a self-perpetuating, justification-seeking monstrous bureaucracy with ever increasing assumption of roles which should not be its business to begin with. It is ridiculous, that of 16 members of HEC, only 5 are themselves PhD’s while this body is self-righteously trying to regulate and control the University faculties which is better qualified than HEC members themselves. Is it not mind-bogglingly unintelligible that people possessing Ph.Ds are deemed less fit to regulate themselves than by the politically picked less qualified HEC members?

Ever since Prof Atta-UR-Rehman started the project of mass production of Ph.Ds, with justification of spent money coming from now his famous PowerPoint clicks (logic of the kind: India is producing xxx million tons of potatoes and Pakistan merely yyy million ton; India is producing xxx PhDs per annum, Pakistan producing only yyy etc.), Pak universities have turned into money minting centres for the greedy but less gifted among the professors, in the name of scientific research (which in most of the cases is actually nothing but scientific-fraud and professional misconduct at best).

I have no idea as to what shall improve by just devolving HEC to provinces.Recommend

HEC is the bone for Pakistan, its not just an institution where people come and pass their time and go back to homes, it is a Factory, the factory to produce the future of Pakistan, internal working system of HEC is trumendus, its fully computrized and upto dated, the HEC is among those few office in pakistan where SAP system fully operated, HEC is playing such a vital role and useing its resource in right way. why goverment is not bearing its existance? becasue its only office who is working for the development of Pakistan, not only producing its human capacity in pakistan but also its knownable abroad as well. if the government is interested in country development, than i request govt. that they may emphasis their attention on other department who are productive but despite of this they are burdon on pakistan economy as well,,,whereas, the HEC is producing the Human, the skills, the capacity, the useful building of mankind, the knowledge based society, HEC is Atom Bomb for pakistan in field of Eduation, for God Sake dont dstroy the future of YOUR generation, Think a while !! if pakistan lose its Atom Bomb, than what will be happend….?may we survive in the world, where the enemies are srounding us…my answar is NO. like this HEC is a Atom Bomb please save this and save your country as well… thanksRecommend

i am an under-grad. student and still i feel that HEC till date as i have seen, has worked for the good. As already said, we have improved our standards in the field of research and technology since it was formed, i don’t remember if there had been more projects going on before it was formed or there had been any gov. scholarships for students who wanted to go abroad as many as given by HEC. As somebody said that there is no proper representation of provinces in HEC, when provinces are not pacing equally at primary education level then how would they flourish equally in higher levels? and that is what we have got to change by having a federal control over our education system and making it a first priority to educate every citizen on merit basis.

and as far as somebody said that checking fake degrees of our MNAs is a political thing and is not necessary then i am sorry but what i could recall is that graduation was a compulsion when they contested for elections so ethically they should not have betrayed us being our representatives and yes universities should not have granted them fake degrees, and there must be some action against those uni.’s chancellors or boards as well but not against HEC for notifying those fake degree holdersRecommend