Vice-chancellors of various public and private sector universities would give presentations and share the educational challenges at hand with Chancellor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar at Governor House convention today.
Public sector universities are facing fund’s shortage and need urgent financial support, Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri informed the Senate committee on Thursday.
HEC has been striving for strengthening the autonomy of universities with fairness and accountability, said Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri, on Monday. He made these remarks while talking to a delegation of the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) who called on him at the Commission Secretariat.
Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri has dubbed higher education budget ‘peanuts’, as a meagre amount of Rs59 billion was allocated against a whopping demand of Rs103.5 billion by the government for the fiscal year 2019-20.
Despite an overall 10 percent cut in the budgets of government entities, Vice Chancellors and Rectors of universities have expressed trust in the Government to protect the higher education sector’s budget.