The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) has decided to decrease the non-developmental grants allocated to public universities by 10 percent, while banning the ‘procurement of assets and freezing the appointments of non-teaching staff’.
In a massive crackdown, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) has either halted or stopped further intake of students at 27 PhD degree and 33 MPhil/MS equivalent programmes at the biggest Public Sector University of the Province – the University of the Punjab (PU).