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VCs seek Imran’s help against amendment
The vice chancellors of 19 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa universities have written a letter to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, seeking his intervention against a move by the PTI government to amend the KP Universities Act 2012.
The move will undermine the autonomy of universities, allowing the provincial government to change the heads of higher education institutions. The letter, written by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Vice Chancellors Committee, reminds the PTI chief of his election promise to promote higher education through reforms.
“Sir, it is sad to note that your party members unduly influenced the changes that the working groups had proposed. The proposed changes in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities Act 2012 are person-specific and not holistic in nature.
Reforms that are now being sought neither conform to the ones that had been agreed upon nor do they address the problems faced by the public sector universities in the province,” says the letter. The VC Committee noted that soon after the inception of PTI government, working groups were constituted for implementing reforms in higher education and some vice chancellors of public sector universities were also made part of the consultative process. “The vice chancellors and the teachers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa public sector universities view with deep concern the proposed changes to the 2012 Act, as it will erode the very autonomy of these universities,” it reads.
The VCs are of the view that reforms are required but all stakeholders must be taken into confidence. “Only then would the reforms have any chance of improving the way universities are run.”Earlier, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Vice Chancellors’ Committee convener Dr Rasool Jan told The News that the proposed amendments will ruin the higher education if passed by the provincial assembly.
He said the future of higher education must be protected through urgent intervention. The vice chancellors have also sought a meeting with the governor and chief minister of KP to apprise them of their concerns about the changes in the Act.
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instead of giving more autonomy to the Universities, they are trying to bring governmental control over head of the Universities. this is absolutely not acceptable.
The vice chancellors of 19 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa universities have written a letter to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, seeking his intervention against a move by the PTI government to amend the KP Universities Act 2012.
The move will undermine the autonomy of universities, allowing the provincial government to change the heads of higher education institutions. The letter, written by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Vice Chancellors Committee, reminds the PTI chief of his election promise to promote higher education through reforms.
“Sir, it is sad to note that your party members unduly influenced the changes that the working groups had proposed. The proposed changes in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities Act 2012 are person-specific and not holistic in nature.
Reforms that are now being sought neither conform to the ones that had been agreed upon nor do they address the problems faced by the public sector universities in the province,” says the letter. The VC Committee noted that soon after the inception of PTI government, working groups were constituted for implementing reforms in higher education and some vice chancellors of public sector universities were also made part of the consultative process. “The vice chancellors and the teachers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa public sector universities view with deep concern the proposed changes to the 2012 Act, as it will erode the very autonomy of these universities,” it reads.
The VCs are of the view that reforms are required but all stakeholders must be taken into confidence. “Only then would the reforms have any chance of improving the way universities are run.”Earlier, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Vice Chancellors’ Committee convener Dr Rasool Jan told The News that the proposed amendments will ruin the higher education if passed by the provincial assembly.
He said the future of higher education must be protected through urgent intervention. The vice chancellors have also sought a meeting with the governor and chief minister of KP to apprise them of their concerns about the changes in the Act.
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instead of giving more autonomy to the Universities, they are trying to bring governmental control over head of the Universities. this is absolutely not acceptable.
