Abstract
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Before Higher Education Commission (HEC)’s inception in 2002, there were a total of 59 universities in Pakistan which were majorly confined to the bigger cities
The focus of Higher Education Commission (HEC) is to improve the quality of higher education and standard of academic research in Pakistan and ensure that the research being produced is beneficial for the nation and society
The race for rankings and impact factor is of no use if the real impact of knowledge creation is absent
Summary
The focus of Higher Education Commission (HEC) is to improve the quality of higher education and standard of academic research in Pakistan and ensure that the research being produced is beneficial for the nation and society. The total number of research publications coming out of the universities at that time was merely around 850. The scenario has changed altogether for there are 188 universities at present spread all across the country’s landscape and offering higher education to 1.3-1.4 million students. The number of students registered at present for PhD programs is still low and it is really difficult to produce quality research in this situation, let alone competing for the rankings internationally. There were 11 Pakistani universities in the list last year, this year there are only four. This does not mean at all that the standard of education in these universities has fallen below the mark. What most people fail to understand was the fact that these rankings tell us which universities performed the best in a certain area
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