Rs 850 billion
needed to improve higher education, says World Bank “Dec 10 2005: A World Bank mission met Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs and Statistics, HEC officials to review the reform strategy for higher education in Pakistan. •Enrolment in Pak unis likely to increase to 1.7 million from 0.5 million. •Pakistan needs to produce 3,000 teachers every year to meet the demand. The salary of faculty members should be output based and not linked with the government pay scales •Rs 850 billion for operational, training and infrastructure development in 10yrs HE in the Medium Term Development Framework (MTDF). •introduction of public-private partnership, •improvement of the regulatory framework, •minimum basic standard for accreditation of private sector universities “
Source:Daily Times, Saturday, December 10, 2005