Abstract
Education has incomparable obligations. One of the key purposes is to give input to national growth and labor market. To contribute in knowledge-based and knowledge driven society, higher education institutions and policy play a critical role. Higher Education System provides innovative skills to the graduates, to help transformation of the society from backward to modern economy through quality teaching, research and innovation. The Pakistan is facing multiple sectors crises such as energy, water and trade deficit. This has thus posed a greater challenge to Pakistan for its position on international economic relations. In this situation the higher education sector needs to play its role to help the country to bring it back to the economic trajectory. Under the Education Sector Reform under different Visions, the Higher Education sector of Pakistan has gone through an overhauling for the last 15 years. There is a protracted mismatch between the higher education and trained labor force which is detrimental to socio-economic transformation. This paper is an attempt to take a stock of these reforms in the education sector for input in innovation to sustain growth on knowledge based economy. My Hypothesis thus would remain that economic transformation of Pakistan is heavily linked with generation of knowledge and therefore Higher Education of Pakistan. This paper intends to correlate the higher education input through overhauling education system of Pakistan vis-a-vis socio-economic transformation of the society.
Highlights
In any country, universities need to be able to carry out two critical roles
The literary debates taken into account from Grace Clark’s work on Reform in Higher Education, Higher Education Commission’s Medium Term Development Framework, Vision 2020, and 2025 of Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform, Government of Pakistan, Allah Bakhsh Malik’s study of 2003 0n The Higher Education in Pakistan, World Bank Country Summery on Education Reform of Pakistan, December 02, 2007 and 2012, Khalid Khattak’s Mapping Pakistan Higher Education of 2016, Shah Bano’s research on The Role of universities in transforming the economy into knowledge based economy, A case study of Pakistan, 2012, Pakistan Annual Education Action Plan, 2015-2016 and Atta-ur-Rehman’s Well done HEC published in The News International in June 2016
The consulted literature suggests that the role of the Higher Education Commission CHEC) of Pakistan is vital in facilitating and promoting educational research in Pakistani universities through policy analysis as research methodology
Summary
Universities need to be able to carry out two critical roles. First: is knowledge-building, usually through research, analysis, and theory building. In 2002 higher education became an important component of social agenda of Pakistan. It has developed its narrative of strong research and development through inception of Higher Education Commission in Pakistan. The major policy issue of Pakistan was to bring the country on innovation map as Pakistan economic growth had taken off from minus in 1990s to 5.8 % in following years till 2006-07. The Government approved document of Vision 2020 with road map of contribution of higher education in economic development of Pakistan under HEC Mid Term Development Framework. The establishment of Higher Education Commission (HEC) reflected the emphasis on the ‘improvement and promotion of higher education, research and development in the country.
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