Institute of Technology Culture, Health Sciences Bill passed
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The Senate Standing Committee on Federal Education and Professional Training, in a meeting held on Thursday, passed the International Institute of Technology Culture and Health Sciences Bill, 2022.
Senator Irfanul Haq Siddiqui chaired the meeting while Senator Dr Mehr Taj Roghani, Senator Fawzia Arshad, Senator Jam Mahtab Hussain Dahar, Senator Kamran Murtaza, senior officers of the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training and Chairman HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmed were in attendance.
Chairman Committee Senator Irfanul Haq Siddiqui stressed the need for systems to be put in place so that unethical practices in the education system were curbed. He stressed the need for HEC to devise a system of rules and conditions that ensures that the Charter granted by HEC to any person or institution was not transferred to any other entity.
The HEC chairman HEC clarifying his position put forward certain cases that had caused the organisation to exercise extreme caution while dealing with issues related to the grant of the Charter.
Taking up the matter of the National Technology Council Act and issues of technologists regarding their service issues raised by Senator Dr Mehr Taj Roghani, Irfanul Haq Siddiqui directed the ministry to give a complete briefing on the issue in the next meeting.
Siddiqui stressed the need for removing all injustices from the system.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 14th, 2023.