KARACHI: The new building of Inter Board Committee of Chairmen’s (IBCC) regional office in Karachi was inaugurated. The new office is situated adjacent to Liaquat National Library on Stadium Road.

Speaking on the occasion, Federal Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain stressed on the national ranking system for higher education institutes, training of teachers and quality enhancement.

He said Rs110 billion was earmarked for the Higher Education Commission in the budget that was significantly higher than allocation made by the previous government.

He said that provinces had certain reservations over the single national curriculum introduced by the previous government so reforms were made and a national curriculum had been introduced while specifying minimum benchmarks.

Earlier, IBCC Secretary Dr Ghulam Ali Mallah said that the IBCC issued equivalence certificates for foreign educational qualification certificates and hundreds of certificates were registered with the committee for the purpose.

He said that for facilitation of students the entire process of equivalence certification had been digitised and over 40 per cent of applications were being submitted online while fees in this regard could be submitted in any branch of all the banks around the country.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2022