Higher Education Commission is being chopped/devolved...

The Higher Education Commission is being chopped up and a new body is being constituted namely Comission for Standard of Higher Education... The Chairman of Implementation Commission, Mr. Raza Rabbani has spoke in Senate today regarding devolution of the Higher Education Commission to provinces...

It has been apprehended that the degrees of Pakistan will not be recognized abroad, the standards of higher education would be drastically drowned, millions of dollars of foreign funding for higher educaiton will be stopped, scholarships will be stopped and universities will submerge in case the HEC is chopped....

The Higher Education Commission was established in September 2002 as a regulatory body of higher eduction, in lieu of the University Grants Commission with the purpose to lay down and formulate procedures, policies and guiding principles for improvement of higher education sector in the country. [HEC website www.hec.gov.pk refers]

As per eighteenth constitutional amendment amedment's point 101, following clauses have been inserted in Part II of Federal Legislative Lists (Schedule IV to the Constitution) [18th amedment can be found at http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/co...mendment.html]

[4. Electricity.

5. Major ports, that is to say, the declaration and delimitation of such ports, and the constitution and powers of port authorities therein.

6. All regulatory authorities established under a Federal law.

7. National planning and national economic coordination including planning and coordination of scientific and technological research.

8. Supervision and management of public debt.

9. Census.

10. Extension of the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any Province to any area in another Province, but not so as to enable the police of one Province to exercise powers and jurisdiction in another Province without the consent of the Government of that Province; extension of the powers and jurisdiction of a police force belonging to any Pronvice to railway areas outside that Province.

11. Legal, medical and other professions.

12. Standards in institutions for higher education and research, scientific and technical institutions.

13. Inter-provincial matters and co-ordination.]

Its evident from above that the HEC has been inserted to be a federal entity. However, the Implementation Commission is bent upon destroying an institution which has developed good reputation worldover where other instituitons of Pakistan are termed as corrupt etc...

We all have to try together to save this institution...