During a Senate session recently, the chairman of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
GUJRANWALA: During a Senate session recently, the chairman of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan spoke on the rising number of colleges and other educational institutions, which are not affiliated with an HEC-approved institution or the educational regulatory body itself. These institutions issue degrees to candidates. Due to their non-affiliated status, these degrees are useless and hence, a waste of thousands of rupees and time a candidate has spent studying at the institution. Often, adverts are published in the leading dailies to alert parents and students about such scams, however, a more wise approach would be to have the HEC’s regional offices in all the major districts and towns for better monitoring.
Maleeha Iftikhar
Published in The Express Tribune, November 17th, 2017.
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