PESHAWAR
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Chief Minister, Justice Retired Syed Arshad Hussain Shah here Saturday chaired a meeting to discuss issues being faced by public sector universities of the province.
Concerned caretaker provincial ministers, administrative secretaries of relevant provincial departments, Chairman Higher Education Commission and other high ups attended the meeting.
The participants discussed in details the financial issues and administrative matters of the public sector universities and reviewed the various proposals in order to steer these universities out of current financial crunches.
Both the provincial government and Higher Education Commission expressed their commitment to work jointly for addressing the financial and administrative issues being faced by public sector universities of the province.
It was agreed that government’s grant to the universities would subject to their improved financial discipline. The meeting also decided to complete ongoing process for appointment of vice chancellors in public sector universities as soon as possible.
The participants concurred with the proposal to merge university campuses having lower enrollments and introduce courses in line with the demand of modern market and to ensure implementation of improved educational process as an essential service in the higher educational institutions.
Addressing the meeting, caretaker CM highlighted the need to have a comprehensive and all time solution to address the financial issues of government universities in the province.
The Caretaker Chief Minister made it clear that we have to prepare and implement viable financial plans to make public sector universities financially stable and self-reliant.
Underlining the need to align higher education sector with the requirements of contemporary world, he said that it is imperative to introduce market based courses instead of traditional education in the universities. The caretaker provincial government is very sincere and committed to take all possible steps for this purpose, he remarked.
