MoU was signed among HEC and Pakistan Bar Council
Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Pakistan Bar Council
(PBC) signed a memorandum of understanding. In a bulletin, it was said that HEC
and Pakistan Bar Council agreed to co-operate with each other for the
development of policy guidelines to renovate and intensify the authorization
process in Law, which was offered in Pakistan higher education institutes.
These programmes are known as PBC. Higher Education Commission and Pakistan Bar
council will establish merit for identification of programmes in Law at the
undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Both will also collaborate in set up of
schedules of programme and criteria for appointing the faculty. For the
interpretation of programmes, a seven member committee will be formed by PBC,
named as Legal Education Accreditation Committee LEAC. Executive Director of
Higher Education Commission, Dr Mukhtar Ahmad and Nazir Hussain Tarrar signed
memorandum of understanding as the representatives of HEC and Pakistan Bar
Council. It is the responsibility of the agency formed by HEC, the Quality
Assurance Agency (QAA) to check out the external and internal quality assurance
of the institutes, it also supervise the programmes as well.
Higher Education Commission will grant the rank of LEAC as
the accreditation figure for the programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate
in Law regulation in Pakistan. It is the duty of LEAC to carry out the polities
and measures evolved by HEC and Pakistan Bar Council. According to the memorandum
of understanding, HEC is bound to perceive only those programmes which LEAC
permit it and HEC will not notice any programme that is not accredited by LEAC.
While LEAC will be constrained to follow “Good Practices for Quality Assurance
of Accreditation Councils in Pakistan” acclaimed by HEC and it will also follow
the rules built by Pakistan Bar Council. HEC already signed MoUs with Pakistan
Veterinary Medical Council and Pakistan Council for Architects and Town
Planners. The board has commended the HEC and Pharmacy Council and Nursing
Council to sign MoUs.
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