Abstract
Higher education has two-fold mission. First is to train people for practical and technical work. Second is to foster public engagement. Following this, universities are committed to educating professional for moral and societal responsibility. In 21 st century University adopts a general mission of service to the public supported by new research discoveries. Globally, many national universities are now discovering that research based public service and outreach activities can improve society at local and regional levels. The quality of higher education around the world depends on quality of research produced by educational institutions. The recent development in quality of research frameworks developed by different researchers focused on evidence-based research. The current study was intended to explore quantitative growth and qualitative development of randomly selected social sciences disciplines in the recognized public sector universities of Pakistan located in Capital, Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtoon Khawa and Balochistan during 2002-2009 regarding research publications by faculty members. From the universe of sixty eight, twenty universities were drawn through proportionate stratified random sampling from entire country, three universities from capital, six from Punjab, four, five and two from Sindh, Khyber Pakhtoon Khawa and Balochistan, respectively. From these selected universities 97 social sciences departments were randomly chosen for data collection. The current research study was conducted by using quantitative approach of social science research method and the data was collected through survey method. The unit of analysis was individuals (heads of the departments). Uni-variate analysis was implied to provide general description of various variables. The significant increase was seen in quantitative indicators such as departmental growth, degree programs offered, student's enrollment and passed out and number of faculty members. On the whole, data analysis explores that there is a tendency of improvement in all indicators of higher education in social sciences in Pakistan.
Highlights
Introduction & Literature ReviewThe interaction of global and national forces is constantly diversifying the scenario of Higher education
Quality of higher qualification of faculty members became the salient feature for the success of any educational institution in this contemporary world
The current study shows that four selected departments of International Relations had 46 faculty members
Summary
The interaction of global and national forces is constantly diversifying the scenario of Higher education. These rapid changes have raised the issue of quality of knowledge produced by centers of higher learning. Quality has become the salient feature for the success of any educational institution in current contemporary world. The idea of knowledge is related with institution of higher learning having an objective of excellence in specialized fields mentioned by Encyclopedia Britannica [1]. Research and teaching has become two important aspects in the universities of the world today to meet the challenges of changing globe. Universities are heavily engaged in teaching larger number of students in diversified educational disciplines explained by Umashankar & Dutta [3]
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