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Higher Education Commission - Pakistan November-December 2017 P-10 Workshop for Editors of Agricultural Sciences Journals P- 8 HEC, IPO and Varsities Sign Agreement to Protect Intellectual Property Rights P- 9 International Trans- Table of Contents Eurasia Information 5 Network Annual 2 HEC Achieves New Milestones in 2017 NOC Workshop HEC, Somalia Sign DoU to Promote Bilateral 6 Collaboration 7 HEC Organises Blockchain Workshop Six Pakistani Students to Take Part High Commissioner of Mauritius Meets in Huawei Middle 7 Chairman HEC 6 East Final Competition 9 HEC, IPO and Varsities Sign Agreement to Protect Intellectual Property Rights 3rd National Symposium on Thematic 10 Research in Social Sciences Workshop for Editors of Agricultural 11 National Conference on Persian Language 8 Sciences Journals 13 HEC Organises Awareness Seminars in Provincial Capitals News & Views is published after 13 HEC, University of Balochistan Organise every two months. No part of this Workshop on Writing Research Proposals publication may be reproduced in 14 HEC, NUML to Expand Scope of NLP any form without prior written Workshop to National Level permission of the publisher. 16 VU Conferences on Food Science, The views expressed by authors in Biotechnology and Bio-Engineering the articles is their sole responsibility and not of HEC. The Commission 17 University of Baltistan Inaugurated in Skardu w o u l d l i k e t o t h a n k a l l t h e institutions and individuals who 18 15 Years of HEC & NUST contributed information and photographs for this Magazine. Editor Aayesha Ikram Graphic Designer Raja Ahmad Nadeem Publisher: Reporter Higher Education Syed Muhammad Ittifaq Commission, Pakistan HEC Achieves New Milestones in 2017 Sets up New Universities and Campuses, Awards Scholarships and Research Grants, Enhances Focus on Quality & Good Governance, Launches Convenient Online Attestation and Approves 22 Development Projects worth 48 Billion Rupees Demonstrating perseverance in its endeavours programme in Transportation Engineering at towards holistic development of higher education Southeast University China consecutively for two sector, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has academic years. The scholarship will be fully funded marked pivotal milestones to promote higher and cover tuition, accommodation, return airfare education, research culture and technological and living stipend for all the awardees. advancement with focus on human resource development, local and foreign collaboration, and As a whole, HEC approved 22 Development projects improved tertiary education access rate. In the long worth Rs. 48 billion for universities in the year. list of HEC’s activities and achievements, a few have Moreover, HEC launched Phase IV & V of Prime been shared here. Minister’s Laptop Scheme (PMNLS) So far, 300000 students have benefited under three phases of the During the year 2017, HEC awarded 395 overseas scheme executed by HEC. With the efforts of HEC, scholarships and 1068 indigenous scholarships in the laptops assembly plant has been installed in various disciplines. Under International Research Pakistan and students are now able to get made-in- Support Initiative Programme, 412 PhD scholars Pakistan laptops along with Evo devices under the proceeded for research abroad, each for a period of scheme. six months. While under bilateral agreement for Hungaricum Scholarships, 157 students proceeded The quality of engineering education in Pakistan to Hungary for PhD, MS and BS studies. improved further due to initiatives and efforts of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) and HEC. It was Besides embarking upon the execution of US- in June 2017 that Pakistan was declared as Full Pakistan Knowledge Corridor, HEC launched Allama Signatory of the Washington Accord. Engineers Muhammad Iqbal Scholarship Programme for registered with PEC will now be considered at par as Afghan National Students under which 3000 world class competent professionals and will not be scholarships will be awarded. HEC also signed a evaluated for any migrational assessment for their Memorandum of Understanding with Turkey to degrees. avail scholarships for Pakistani youth to study in Turkish universities. HEC held deliberative sessions In the ICT sphere, HEC launched Online Attestation to discuss the modalities of Pakistan-UK System by developing an e-portal for registration Knowledge Gateway. and processing of degree attestation cases. This initiative has made the degree attestation process HEC also launched the 'Provision of Higher for candidates easier, as they register online, get Education Opportunities for Students of their degrees scrutinised and schedule Balochistan and FATA, Phase-II' under which a total appointment for documents attestation. HEC set up of 3900 students from Balochistan and Federally Call Centre to facilitate parents, students, faculty Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) will be extended and researchers across Pakistan in case of any query financial support for higher education. regarding HEC programmes. Moreover, HEC also inaugurated the Smart and Safe Campuses Project In 2017, HEC and China Road and Bridge as well as Pakistan’s first R&D Centre in 2017. HEC Corporation (CRBC), a state-owned company of the also launched Event Registration Portal, which will People's Republic of China, signed a Document of serve as an academic calendar to register events Understanding under which the latter will sponsor apart from providing information on events, 30 Pakistani students for Master’s degree trainings and online courses. 2 In 2017, Pakistan’s first Internet Exchange Point 3G Awards are presented to government (PKIX) was also inaugurated at HEC under the organisations, corporations and non-governmental headship of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority organisations (NGOs) for excellence in (PTA) and support of HEC as well as Internet Service transparency, good governance and social Providers (ISPs). The primary purpose of PKIX is to responsibility. HEC bagged the award for second allow networks to interconnect directly, via the consecutive year. exchange, rather than through one or more third- party networks. HEC played a significant role in For infrastructure development and expansion of making the Huawei ICT Skill Competition 2017 a universities and sub-campuses, sub-campuses of success. Six Pakistani students have won the Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University, competition at national level and they will Lasbela University and University of take part in Huawei Middle East Final Poonch were made operational in Competition soon. Naushki, Wadh and Forward Kahuta, respectively. HEC also announced HEC also established Education establishment of University of Testing Council (ETC) in 2017 to Khushab for students of the district ensure free-of-cost, standardised and adjoining areas. It also entry tests for admission in public announced establishment of two and private institutions. ETC university colleges in Balochistan, conducted its first entry tests for Fall one each in Zhob and Dera Murad 2017 admissions. Jamali. The University College Zhob will be a constituent college As a part of National Qualifications of Balochistan University of Framework (NQF), HEC launched I n f o r m a t i o n Te c h n o l o g y , Pakistan Qualification Register Engineering and Management (PQR) in order to enable the Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta. The students and their parents to make second university college will be informed decisions. The e-portal established in Dera Murad Jamali system helps stakeholders of HEC to and will be a constituent college of view online the programmes of Lasbela University of Agriculture, Pakistani universities that have been Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal. approved by HEC. It is aimed to provide clearly defined levels of knowledge, skills However, HEC stopped four universities from and competencies to be acquired by every admitting students in any degree programme, graduate. HEC also plans to launch Higher o w i n g t o a c a d e m i c i r r e g u l a r i t i e s a n d Education Information Management System mismanagement and after non-compliance despite (HEIMS) soon. constant reminders from HEC to fulfill the deficiencies. The Ministry of Interior and HEC also launched Young Peace and Development Corps (YPDC), The Commission has so far closed down around comprising a number of students from 20 Pakistani 450 MS and PhD programmes of different universities, in 2017. The platform of YPDC will play universities, as they failed to fulfil the HEC criteria. a vital role in promoting culture of tolerance and To create awareness among parents and students healthy argumentation while discouraging about the status of universities, their campuses and violence. programmes, HEC continued its series of publishing Parent and Student Alerts in national dailies in 2017 In 2017, HEC won the Global Good Governance (3G) too. Award of Cambridge IF Analytica, an international organisation based in Cambridge, UK. The award In order to improve the quality of education, many distribution ceremony was held in Dubai, UAE. The other steps were taken including the improved 3 qualification of university faculty. In 2017, HEC economic development of Pakistan. Under the directed the universities and degree awarding programme, 529 research proposals were institutions to ensure implementation of the approved in 2017. In this lieu, an amount of Rs. Commission’s decision to raise minimum 1303.62 million was utilised during this period. qualification for appointment of Lecturers to 18 years of education. Moreover, 59 projects worth Rs. 178 million were completed. Hence, the number of projects Seven Pakistani universities won representation in underway till December 2017 was 1908. Under 300 best universities of Asia in the Times Higher Interim Placement of Fresh PhDs Programme Education’s 2017 ranking announced in March launched by HEC, 3016 PhD holders have been 2017. Only two universities were enlisted in the offered jobs as Assistant Professors at TTS salary ranking in 2016, but the number reached seven in package in Pakistani HEIs with conditions that 2017 with the addition of five more universities during a one-year serving period, their host from Pakistan.