A two -day V.C. Committee meeting has been held at Higher Education Commission, Islamabad from March 26, 2012, which was chaired by Chairperson VC Committee Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gillani (Vice-chancellor of KP University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar) and first day was inaugurated by Federal Minister for Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
This was 10th Vice Chancellors` Committee meeting, which was attended by Vice-Chancellors/Rectors of around 130 universities of the country. are participating in the two-day meeting.
While speaking at the occassoin, Dr. Sheikh said investment in higher education has resulted in creation of employment, initiation of research and socio-economic development. He, however, asked the universities to utilize their available infrastructure to generate finances/get financial support.
The Committee, unanimously, desired from the Government to increase budget for higher education upto four per cent of the GDP.
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2 comments:
Alas, education is not on the priority of our leaders. How can you expect that they will increase the budget for education.
Irfan Ullah Khan
HoD (Accountancy)
Institute of Professional Studies
Peshawar
please send me details of this meeting. i want to make college assignment. my id is zubair@ www.yahoo.com
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