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Sindh HEC offers national level quality assurance training

Our Correspondent June 24, 2024

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KARACHI:

The Sindh Higher Education Commission, in a ground-breaking initiative pertaining to quality assurance (QA) practices, has proposed a collaborative effort with HEC Pakistan to conduct a comprehensive national level training programme for the professionals working at the quality enhancement cells (QEC) of various universities.

Sindh Chairperson HEC Prof Dr Tariq Rafi has written to HEC Pakistan as well the provincial HECs in Punjab, KP and Balochistan, offering to facilitate them in conducting a training programme to enhance the understanding and capability of the QA practices among the QEC professionals.

“In 2022, the Sindh HEC introduced a comprehensive QA training programme for the QEC professional from the public and private universities in Sindh which was met with significant enthusiasm and participation while our flagship initiative, ‘Certified Reviewers Programme’ also received overwhelming response from the QA fraternity,” wrote Prof. Dr. Rafi.

He further mentioned that in Phase 2 of the QA training programme held in Dec 2023, Sindh HEC invited five nominees of each province to participate which proved to be greatly effective and successful.

In his letter, the Chairperson Sindh HEC emphasised the importance of holding such training programmes more frequently and extending them to other provinces so that the benefits of such initiatives could be reaped at the national level.

“We humbly offer that the Sindh HEC can facilitate HEC Pakistan by providing technical support, certified reviewers, development material for the training programme and is ready to orgnise a ‘Certified Reviewers Programme’ either in Karachi or any other suitable place decided by HEC Pakistan,” he concluded.