PHEC to facilitate online education

Short-term, medium-term and long-term plans will be devised to strengthen the education system

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Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) will facilitate universities and colleges to develop comprehensive plans, implement strategies and hold capacity building programmes for the promotion of online teaching.

This was decided on Thursday in an online meeting of the PHEC committee constituted to discuss the policy guidelines regarding online education in affiliated colleges in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.


For this purpose, short-term, medium-term and long-term plans will be devised to strengthen the education system.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 17th, 2020.