LAHORE, Oct 01: Punjab Minister for Higher Education Raja Yasir Humayun said that the concept of one subject based universities would be amended and college sector would be improved through systematic amendments.
He was addressing the 10th syndicate meeting of Government College Women University Faisalabad at committee room of New Minister’s block on Tuesday. Vice Chancellor Government College Women University Faisalabad Prof. Dr. Robina Farooq , Additional Secretary Tariq Hameed Bhatti, members from law and finance department, Registrar, Controller, Treasurer of the university and other syndicate members participated in the meeting.
Raja Yasir Humayun said that the government would introduce new model to improve efficiency of colleges. He said the government was planning that the top university of the district would directly supervise the efficiency of respective colleges in the division.
He said that no nation could make progress without excellence in higher education and therefore the government was focusing to improve academic standards of higher education institutions in Punjab.
During the syndicate meeting, at least 41 agenda items were discussed. Discussing about the educational reforms, the Minister Higher Education said that government wants to put all the universities under uniform charter; there should be a single charter to manage the administrative affairs of all the public sector universities.
He said it is not easy to manage sub campuses far away from the main campus in remote areas therefore government is planning to attach all the sub-campus with the universities located in the same district.
Raja Yasir Hamayun said that the government would promote industry-academia linkages and provide all resources to the researchers for improving ranking of universities. He said that the results of education policies of Punjab government would bring fruit soon.
Syndicate directed the VC to seek advice from Law Department about the regularization of university staff. Members also approved the budget of the university.(INP)
