Abstract
Despite funding opportunities to PhDs and Post-Docs, as well as various faculty recruitment programmes, there are still a number of issues facing academics in Pakistan, especially in building a successful and productive academic career. According to HEC Medium-Term Development Framework II, the HEC is still facing ‘low quality and lack of employability of college and private graduates; lack of appropriately qualified high quality research faculty for universities and lack of capacity for continuous faculty and staff development’. This study aims to provide evidence to support the development of informed strategies for career development for academics in Pakistani Higher Education Institutions, in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission (HEC). This paper delineates key findings and suggests strategies to promote academic careers and scholarship among faculty of HEIs with a specific focus on promoting women.
 
 Keywords: Academic careers, higher education, women leadership, mentoring, gender issues.
Highlights
In 2002, the University Grants Commission was modified to create the Higher Education Commission (HEC)
This study aims to provide evidence to support the development of strategies for career development of academics in Pakistani Higher Education Institutions
There is a new wave of pressure on Pakistani Higher Education Institutes to become research-oriented and an immediate shift is being pushed for a move from traditional teaching focus to ‘active research’ status
Summary
In 2002, the University Grants Commission was modified to create the Higher Education Commission (HEC). In addition to funding PhDs and Post-Docs, the HEC has introduced programmes such as the Foreign Faculty Hiring Programme (FFHP), Short-term Foreign Faculty Hiring Programme (SFHP) and Visiting Scholars Programme (VSP). These programmes have sought to promote research culture in Pakistan by bringing foreign professors on short-term and visiting positions to serve at various Higher Education Institutes. These programmes have brought in a total of 594 foreign professors, with 60 professors still serving at various public sector universities (HEC, 2013)
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