Banuri Emphasizes On Easy Access To Quality Education

Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri Wednesday said the commission would continue to focus on providing access to education, improvement of quality and relevance of research to the socio-economic needs of the society.

ISLAMABAD,(UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 4th Jul, 2018 ) :Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri Wednesday said the commission would continue to focus on providing access to education, improvement of quality and relevance of research to the socio-economic needs of the society.

He expressed these views while addressing a reception arranged by the Inter University Consortium for Promotion of Social Sciences in collaboration with American Institute of Studies and Quaide-e-Azam University (QAU) Alumni Association.

The event was attended by ambassador of Austria, HEC Executive Director Dr Arshad Ali, QAU Alumni members, foreign experts and vice chancellors from various universities across the country.

"I am the first HEC chairman who is a social scientist and I am also the first one who has been the president of students unions" he said.

Sharing his goals, Dr Tariq Banuri stressed upon the need of universities autonomy, saying that the success could be achieved only this way.

He further underlined the need for improvement in management of higher educational institutions and added, the governance of the universities would also be improved.

He said all three former HEC chairmen congratulated him, adding the trio had given him the same message.

Explaining the one of major issues of higher education, Dr Tariq intended to resolve them on priority as without improving quality education, Pakistani universities could not take place in international ranking.

Lamenting over the poor performance of the students in CSS exam, the chairperson vowed to pay focus on the weak areas of higher education.

He stressed the need to increase 10 percent enrollment of the students and faculty annually.

"We need to invest in the improvement of quality and capacity building of faculty members. We have many issues in research methodology which need to be resolved" he remarked.

He said equal importance would be given to the education and research and hoped to have a university in which all educationists could share their knowledge.

Talking about his future plans, he expressed to build a National academy of higher education for the training and capacity building of the vice chancellors and faculties' members.

As a community we needed to build a political momentum to get attention of the government for promotion of quality education, he informed.

We had to convince the government for increasing investment in quality education, Dr Tariq Banuri concluded.