HYDERABAD, Dec 7: The executive council of the Sindh University Teachers Association has endorsed the decisions taken by the Federation of All-Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association and resolved to support any movement launched by the federation for the implementation of its decisions.

The council, which met on Saturday, demanded that all provinces should be given equal representation on the Higher Education Commission and that a renowned educationist should be appointed as the commission’s chairman.

The meeting said that a high powered committee should be appointed to probe the alleged irregularities in the HEC.

The meeting criticised cuts in the budgets of the universities and demanded that the PhD scholarship should be restored and ban on new appointments in the universities should be lifted.

The meeting demanded that retired military officers and bureaucrats who had been appointed as vice-chancellors should be removed and the vice-chancellors and pro-vice chancellors should be appointed from amongst the in-service senior professors.

The meeting said that the retired officials appointed on contract basis should be removed and observed that it was difficult for the governors to manage administrative affairs of the universities and stressed the need for appointing educational experts as chancellors in each province, equal in rank to a federal minister.