The higher education sector of
Pakistan is expanding at a very fast speed and nearly half million students are
now enrolled in higher education institutions all over the country. The ratio
was far below some years before but the indulgence of private sector in higher
education raised the figure to much higher level. The increasing trend of
higher education also raises concerns about the quality of education and many
time the irregularities in private sector and unfair admission speculated in
media. The Govt. is aware with the fact but never in recent past, has any step
been taken to ensure the quality factor.
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Federal Minister Planning, Development and
Reform Ahsan Iqbal is on the tour of USA these days, there he held meetings
with the leading figures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and
discussed with them the collaboration with the Institutes in science and
technology field including setting up a state of art university in Pakistan.
During his tour at MIT, He met with quantum
astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala, Associate Department Head of Physics at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Mavalvala is a member of the team of
scientists who discovered the gravitational waves that were hypothesized by
famous scientist Albert Einstein, many decades ago. She was widely praised in
Pakistani media and on social forums.
Ahsan Iqbal congratulated her on success and
discussed opportunities for common work and for collaboration with MIT in the
field of Science and Technology of the country. Research trend and quality in
Pakistan is much lower than at the international institutions, if any kind of
collaboration can be started , this will not only help in quality stuff of
research journals but will provide our students many opportunities to worked
with international researchers and renowned institutions like CERN.
One of the meetings of Ahsan Iqbal was with
Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT
Entrepreneurship at MIT in Boston. This global center is responsible for
entrepreneurship in all schools at MIT. Both eminent figures discussed ideas to
promote entrepreneurship in Pakistani universities so that our youth become job
givers not job seekers.
One of the meetings was with Prof. Richard
Lester, Associate Provost of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
Mr. Iqbal is working on the idea of establishing State Of The Art University in
Pakistan; he discussed his plans with Prof. Richard and asked for the technical
help. Well, instead of setting up a new university the badly needed changing in
the curriculum and faculty will be much better.
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The educational tour was not only confined to
MIT but the Minister also met with Pakistani students at Kennedy School,
Harvard University. The meeting was however in regard of present condition of
Pakistan and students asked about the current Govt. and their stance and
performance on various fronts.
Nearly 74 universities
are currently in HEC recognized list but neither of them is ranked in top 100
of world best institution in any ranking.
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