The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan is gearing up to reinstate its much-awaited National University Rankings. To ensure a transparent, seamless, and swift process, the HEC recently conducted a training session for the focal persons from 33 universities.
The ranking system, which had not been updated since 2015, is expected to serve as a valuable resource for students, parents, and universities. By identifying strengths and areas of improvement, the rankings will foster an environment of academic excellence.
In the past, HEC’s rankings were instrumental in evaluating universities across various disciplines, including agriculture and veterinary science, arts and design, business, engineering and technology, and medicine. The ranking methodology employs five essential criteria, each carrying specific weightings that sum up to an aggregate score out of 100, ultimately determining the institutional rankings.
The five criteria encompass quality assurance, teaching quality, research output, financial and facility aspects, and social integration/community development. Each criterion is further evaluated based on a set of sub-components, ensuring a comprehensive assessment.
Focusing on faculty qualifications, research output, student-faculty ratios, and community engagement, the HEC’s University Rankings aims to provide a holistic picture of the quality of education offered by Pakistani universities.
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HEC is a worthless organization. It has no proper mandate and functioning. It is to ensure high quality higher education in every part of Pakistan. It needs to regulate IT education in particular. We need prepare IT professionals on millions to compete with India. Local learning institutes of IT are following rules and are selling chooran with hardly 4-6 hours contact hour per week in physical classes and that too without any written or Digital Curriculum/ syllabus. Examples are iSkills DigiSkills and other private Online institues. Apart from this HEC never monitors universities in Pakistan. They must prepare monthly report of each institute in Pakistan to know how education is being imparted in the institute and collect complaints, report any crime observed in institute and get inside stories. I believe HEC mandate meeds to be redefined and must include these aspects other it is merely a organization for jobs of few bureaucratic minded educationists.
Community development involved in science and it therefore backup employee and students goals of lectures and workshops into justice farewell socail impact