VCs voice concern over engineering council decision

VCs vowed to strive for ensuring quality improvement to enhance professional, practical skills of the graduates

PESHAWAR:

The vice chancellors of public and private sector universities of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) unanimously voiced their concern over the recent notification issued by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) with regards to devising the framework for entry test relating to admission to the engineering programs.

The meeting was held Friday under the Chairmanship of Vice Chancellor, University of Engineering Technology (UET) Peshawar Professor Dr Iftikhar Hussain and attended (in-person and online) by the VCs of public and private sector universities, members of PEC governing body and senior officials of Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA) K-P.

The meeting urged the PEC to withdraw the notification for it could impact the engineering education sector in future, adding it did not engage all the stakeholders during decision making thus lacked due process of careful review.

The meeting further decided that any change in the existing PEC policy would be carried out through due engagement of stakeholders.

The VCs also vowed to continuously strive for ensuring quality improvement to enhance professional and practical skills of the engineering graduates so that they keep pace with the world.

They urged the PEC to ensure that a suitable mechanism is followed by involving the members of the Governing body and vice chancellors in all such matters.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10^th, 2022.