The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a new policy directing universities across Pakistan to integrate skill-based education into their academic programmes amid a sharp decline in enrolment.
Under the revised framework, all public and private universities will be required to embed industry-linked certifications into their curricula, particularly in computer science, information technology, healthcare, construction, high-tech manufacturing, digital economy, and finance.
Officials familiar with the decision say the move aims to make graduates employable by equipping them with practical, market-relevant skills instead of confining them to traditional degree-centred learning. The policy is also meant to address a widening gap between what universities teach and the demands of employers.
Sources said the HEC decided after observing that tertiary education in Pakistan has failed to keep pace with labour market requirements, leading not only to high unemployment among graduates but also to a marked drop in admissions at colleges and universities.
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Salam Sir
It’s not just skill based education at university level, even the education at school and college level in Pakistan needs a proper reforms.
Their should be ” EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL” setup in each province of Pakistan or at the Federal government in Islamabad and this ” EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL” should have direct connection or contact with overseas Pakistanis who are specially working as professors in universities of UK, Canada, Australia and America. As these foreign based Pakistani professors have huge experience and exposure of teaching abroad, their valuable and useful input to the ” EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL” as advices can benefit the university level education system. The advices given by these high profile and highly qualified Pakistanibprofessors who are teaching in these foreign universities can greatly contribute in the re-designing of the course outline of the bachelors and masters degree programs offered at various universities across Pakistan. And this ” EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL” can play an important role in the contribution of the reforms that are actually made or introduced at the university level education.
This ” EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL” must be connected to both HEC( Higher Education Commission) and with the alumini of Pakistani professionals specially those who are working in the field of IT and other technological fields in foreign countries , not just with Pakistani professors teaching in foreign universities.
This ” EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL” should take valuable inputs from both overseas Pakistanis working as professionals in foreign companies and industries and with overseas Pakistani professors teaching in various universities abroad.
Unfortunately their is still a system and culture of memorization in schools and colleges of Pakistan which not just damages the thinking process of students, but it neither developes or cultivates the thought process in the students which could enable them to solve problems or enable them to be creative.