{"id":16388,"date":"2018-03-22T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T06:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=16388"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:25:36","slug":"higher-education-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/studykit\/essay\/higher-education-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Education in Pakistan Ills and remedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Higher-Education-in-Pakistan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16389\" src=\"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Higher-Education-in-Pakistan.jpg\" alt=\"Higher Education in Pakistan Ills and remedies\" width=\"625\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>1. Introduction<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>2. Types of Education<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Formal education<\/li>\n<li>Informal education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>3. An Overview of Higher Education Setup in Pakistan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Statutory position<\/li>\n<li>Administrative system<\/li>\n<li>Institutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>4. Ills Prevailing in Higher Education System of Pakistan<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>A. Infrastructure-related Ills<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Lack of institutes<\/li>\n<li>Missing necessary facilities<\/li>\n<li>Overcharging by private-sector institutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>B. Human Resource-related Ills<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Meagre strength of faculties<\/li>\n<li>Lack of motivation in members of faculty<\/li>\n<li>Lack of skills and expertise<\/li>\n<li>Meagre strength of support staff<\/li>\n<li>High dropout ratio at elementary level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>C. Curriculum-related Ills<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Curriculum not in consonance with domestic needs<\/li>\n<li>More focus on mere theories<\/li>\n<li>Presence of mistakes and errors<\/li>\n<li>Lack of analytical approach<\/li>\n<li>Uninteresting and monotonous descriptions<\/li>\n<li>No focus on character-building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>D. Teaching Methodology-related Ills<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Promotion and encouragement of cramming<\/li>\n<li>No focus on conceptual study<\/li>\n<li>Monotonous style of teaching<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>E. Examination-related Ills<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>No testing of analytical skills<\/li>\n<li>Use of unfair means in examination halls<\/li>\n<li>Inconsistent style of grading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>5. Factors Responsible for the Presence of Ills<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Budgetary constraints<\/li>\n<li>Myopic vision of the policymakers<\/li>\n<li>Distracted attention of the government<\/li>\n<li>Bureaucratic hurdles<\/li>\n<li>Poor growth of economy<\/li>\n<li>Commercialization of education<\/li>\n<li>Missing element of morality in the society<\/li>\n<li>Persistently-rampant corruption<\/li>\n<li>Incapacity of concerned HR departments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>6. Impacts of Flawed Higher Education System<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Unemployment and underemployment<\/li>\n<li>Lack of talent and skills<\/li>\n<li>Devastating impacts on different sectors of economy<\/li>\n<li>Deteriorated image of the state<\/li>\n<li>Social degradation<\/li>\n<li>Increase in lawlessness and crime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>7. Recommendations for the removal of Ills of the Higher Education Sector<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Devising sharply-focused, meticulously-planned and thoroughly-integrated policies<\/li>\n<li>Allocating reasonable budget to higher education<\/li>\n<li>Tapping of indigenous mineral, geographical and human resources to enhance the availability of funds<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of civil service reforms to improve the bureaucratic structure<\/li>\n<li>Mature, responsible and objective role of media for the upgrade of moral standards of the society<\/li>\n<li>Tightening the monitoring and regulatory mechanism to curb the commercialization of education<\/li>\n<li>Devising pragmatic policies for maximum utilization of available resources<\/li>\n<li>Focus on skills development of education- related human resource<\/li>\n<li>Annual revision and upgrade of curriculum<\/li>\n<li>Use of technology to improve the examination standards<\/li>\n<li>Attracting best brains to education sector by improving perks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>8. Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Introduction 2. Types of Education Formal education Informal education 3. An Overview of Higher Education Setup in Pakistan Statutory position Administrative system Institutes 4. Ills Prevailing in Higher Education System of Pakistan A. Infrastructure-related Ills Lack of institutes Missing necessary facilities Overcharging by private-sector institutions B. Human Resource-related Ills Meagre strength of faculties Lack &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,9672],"tags":[257,9668,383,9724,3027,9725],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26232,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388\/revisions\/26232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}