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Purpose: To understand the problems foreventual Rehabilitation.
Problems:
Teaching amounts to dictation of notes. Exams are tests of memory.
Students indiscipline is rampant.
Teachers commit academic fraud.
Delay in exams due to shooting. ( Campusmurders )
No scientific research in variousdepartments.
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No discussion on social, political and
philosophical issues.
Contribution of university faculty to
newspapers is negligible.
Intellectual sterility.
Presence of Rangers in university campus.
Crisis of purpose, quality, academic ethics
and administration.
In-service teachers have no exposure to
external standards
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A team in 1989 reported:
Deterioration in the sector has been sharp
and accelerating. The nations universities
are becoming pale shadows of effectively rununiversities in other countries By
International standards the Pakistani MA/MSc
degree could soon come to be equivalent of
the secondary school diploma elsewhere
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University campus with over 40 buildings had
to be abandoned due to poor construction. It
collapsed before classes could start.
Students/Parents demand degree withoutcontent.
No social utility of university education.
Orphans of state, victims of poor
governance.
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Colonial traditions of education which
encouraged intellectual docility and
discouraged scientific research.
Inadequate funds for higher education.
Bureaucratic misplanning and administration.
All-pervasive corruption of values in
Pakistani society.
State universities are parasitical andirrelevant.
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Components are faculty, admin and physical
infrastructure.
Transmission of existing knowledge.
Creation of new knowledge.
Stimulation of analytic and creative powers.
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Should be capable of scientific Inquiry.
Able to reason mathematically.
To organize his thoughts in a logical way.
Have some understanding of culture and
history.
Be capable of coherent expression in speech
and writing.
Internalization of principles is essential.
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Research is a prime function of a modern
university.
It requires application of known principles to
new situations and problems, therebygenerating new knowledge.
Adaptability is requirement of modern
university.
(In USA PhD in physics are doing managementjobs.)
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Confused Purpose.
Faculty selection.
Student selection.
Administration.
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Desperate situations call for desperate
remedies .
However it is impossible to reverse years of
misplanning, when government does noteven have plans for reformation.
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Reduce the number of general universities.
Increase the number of technical universities
imparting knowledge of economic utility.
Disband dysfunctional departments whereappropriate.
Upgrade and improve the surviving general
universities through massive infusion of
resources financial and intellectual.To pool good science faculty not diffuse
them.
To realize the goals of academic research.
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The present system of lifelong tenure forevery university teacher and administrativeemployee must be terminated.
There must be only 3-5 years contractappointments, renewal after thoroughscrutiny of performance.
The faculty not fulfilling minimum criteriashould be given golden handshake.
A shear code of Ethics for university facultyshould be defined.
Fair education competence can be achievedthrough an external team of academics.
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Student selection.
Quotas to be reduced
Higher education should be subsidized
Sufficient number of scholarships
Campus employment for exceptional
students
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Privatization is not the solution but
reformation of State universities is, It is high
time to realize that:
Reduce general universitiesConversion of general universities to
vocational institutes with modern facilities
Discontinuation of automatic tenure by
strict-merit contract system
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