Pakistan now has in excess of 70 open and a comparable number of private colleges, and most have MPhil and PhD programs. The Higher Education Commission (HEC) merits the fundamental credit for this fast and aggressive development of higher education in Pakistan. Be that as it may, a degree program at an university must be tantamount to the accessibility of decently prepared employees, research gear and trusts for supplies, and for the workforce and understudies to have work visits to foundations with world-class skill in their fields of interest.
There is an extreme deficiency of prepared workforce, particularly for PhD programs, at the greater part of the Pakistani colleges. This is one discriminating zone in which Pakistan ought to effectively look for aid from its partners from the created world. Monetary and specialized support of this sort will drastically encourage the change of the graduate degree programs and of the two-sided associations with the created nations at the administration level as well as the individual level.
At present, the deficiency of prepared doctoral staff at Pakistani colleges is bad to the point that, at numerous foundations, new PhDs from other Pakistani colleges selected as instructors are being allocated to tutor PhD expositions of two to four students. This remedy will lead generally to PhDs who are extremely traded off when contending with graduates from the created world.
The Government of Pakistan, through the HEC, can and ought to address this issue by (1) making postdoctoral preparing promptly accessible to its doctoral employees in settled establishments in developed countries, (2) get qualified employees from developed countries for a time of five to 10 years who can help create and enhance the PhD programs at colleges in Pakistan, and (3) create a 50/50 project where a Pakistani PhD students burns through 50 every penny of the five-year learn at an university in a created nation and the staying 50pc at a home university, and gets a joint degree. This joint degree will guarantee that the degree meets the scholastic norms of both the outside and the Pakistani colleges.
There is no motivation behind why Pakistani colleges can’t likewise have remote students in the 50/50 system. The stay of decently prepared students from created nations can be a colossal wellspring of new research thoughts, discourses and opportunities for future coordinated efforts between the students and employees of the remote and Pakistani colleges. Numerous outside students, particularly from the United States of America, would be exceptionally inspired by the chance to research Pakistani society and dialect and do research on worldwide issues and exploratory issues. Such a system can likewise diminish the budgetary load of educational costs of an outside understudy, which are typically numerous folds higher for the same education in Pakistan.
HEC has in fact launched a larger part of the projects sketched out above in one structure or the other. Notwithstanding, at present, these projects are at excessively little a level to address the needs and have a little effect on the change of higher education in Pakistan. A high need status and a real exertion from the Prime Minister’s office are needed. Luckily, in the current government, Foreign Adviser Sartaj Aziz, the previous outside pastor and previous minister of the Beacon house National University, Lahore, who comprehends the essentials and the direness of enhancing higher education in Pakistan is in a perfect world suited to head this exertion for the legislature.
