Educational bodies operating autonomously lack coordination and coherence in policies
HYDERABAD: The Higher Education Commission and its new policy of free aptitude test for seeking admission to universities has been criticised by the Sindh Higher Education Commission. In its response, the Sindh HEC has called the federal body unjust and unfair to the provincial body, implying that the said decision falls outside the HEC’s jurisdiction.
Sindh’s allegations are factually irrational and baseless as the HEC being a federal body provincial commissions are bound to abide by the HEC’s instructions. Such issues not only point to the lack of coordination between the federal and the provincial commission but also in the matter of the discretionary power the HEC has been granted by the education ministry. What’s worse, with such a tussle, educational institutions are often left lingering in between, indecisive about whom to follow.
In Pakistan, educational bodies operating autonomously lack coordination and coherence in policies. It is important that all regional or provincial bodies be placed under the federal education commission so that unified policies are implemented collectively across provinces.
Azam Abro
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2017.
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