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| October 04, 2006 | Wednesday | Ramazan 10, 1427 |
Senate body briefed on 4-year degree programme
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: The Senate Standing Committee on Education and Science and Technology which met here on Tuesday with Senator Razina Alam Khan in the chair has underlined the need of bringing the country’s educational standard at par with the international requirements.
The committee directed the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to ensure that the four-year Bachelor Degree Programme being introduced should provide a holistic approach to the students by offering knowledge of other disciplines.
The Committee made these observations while having a briefing on the four-year degree programme being introduced by the HEC.
Executive Director HEC Sohail H. Naqvi informed the Committee that the programme introduced by the HEC would be implemented in next three to four years in most of the universities/institutions of the country.
In reply to a question, he said that 33 universities of the country had either implemented or are in the process of implementation of the four-year bachelor degree programme.
The Executive Director, HEC, stated that Ph.D degree holders in all the disciplines were availing Rs1500 per month as Ph.D allowance all over the country whereas a special Science and Technology allowance of Rs5000 per month was granted to the Ph.D degree holders working in R&D organizations, universities and centres in specialised subjects. However, it was also extended to the Ph.Ds in Social Sciences later on, he added.
The Committee noted with concern that complaints were being received from different quarters about the non-payment of the Ph.D allowance i.e. Rs5000 per month to the Ph.D degree holders in some provinces/institutions and decided to constitute a sub-committee headed by Dr Muhammad Said to look into the matter with a directive to submit its report to the committee at the earliest.
Senators Mrs. Tahira Latif, Javed Ali Shah and Mrs. Rehana Yahya Baloch will be the members of the Sub-Committee.
The Committee was also informed about the mechanism and modalities adopted by the HEC in granting Ph.D scholarships to the students and it was assured that strict merit policy would continue to be followed for the grant of scholarships to students in various disciplines.
The members of the committee proposed that education up to intermediate level should be imparted at schools named as higher secondary schools. At degree level the educational institutions/colleges should be directly attached with universities and the buildings should be used as campuses of that university.—APP
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