Higher Education in Pakistan Ills and remedies Essay

  

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 of motivation in members of faculty

•       Lack of skills and expertise

•       Meagre strength of support staff

•       High dropout ratio at elementary level

C.  Curriculum-related Ills

•       Curriculum not in consonance with domestic needs

•       More focus on mere theories

•       Presence of mistakes and errors

•       Lack of analytical approach

•       Uninteresting and monotonous descriptions

•       No focus on character-building

D.  Teaching Methodology-related Ills

•       Promotion and encouragement of cramming

•       No focus on conceptual study

•       Monotonous style of teaching

E.   Examination-related Ills

•       No testing of analytical skills

•       Use of unfair means in examination halls

•       Inconsistent style of grading

5. Factors Responsible for the Presence of Ills

•       Budgetary constraints

•       Myopic vision of the policymakers

•       Distracted attention of the government

•       Bureaucratic hurdles

•       Poor growth of economy

•       Commercialization of education

•       Missing element of morality in the society

•       Persistently-rampant corruption

•       Incapacity of concerned HR departments

6. Impacts of Flawed Higher Education System

•   Unemployment and underemployment

•   Lack of talent and skills

•   Devastating impacts on different sectors of economy

•   Deteriorated image of the state

•   Social degradation

•   Increase in lawlessness and crime

7. Recommendations for the removal of Ills of the Higher Education Sector

•   Devising sharply-focused, meticulously-planned and thoroughly-integrated policies

•   Allocating reasonable budget to higher education

•   Tapping of indigenous mineral, geographical and human resources to enhance the availability of funds

•   Introduction of civil service reforms to improve the bureaucratic structure

•   Mature, responsible and objective role of media for the upgrade of moral standards of the society

•   Tightening the monitoring and regulatory mechanism to curb the commercialization of education

•   Devising pragmatic policies for maximum utilization of available resources

•   Focus on skills development of education- related human resource

•   Annual revision and upgrade of curriculum

•   Use of technology to improve the examination standards

•   Attracting best brains to education sector by improving perks

8. Conclusion