PAKİSTAN’DA YÜKSEKÖĞRETİMİN TEMEL SORUNLARI
THE MAJOR PROBLEMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN

Summary/Abstract: Higher education is a problematic field in Pakistan. The major problems include the dependent structure of institutions and political interventions. The academic programs are not updated and modern. The rate of participation in higher education is low. Instructors are not paid fairly. Since the state’s support is not sufficient, financial deficit has been chronic. There are complex relations among the federal department of education, the state department of education, the council of higher education, and universities. The latter are not administered well and suffer from corruption, inefficient policies, and misuse of grants. The growth of educational institutions is not proportional to that of population, and hence the rate of participation in higher education is low. Students are faced with economic challenges, many not able to afford tuitions. This leads them to being engaged with politics excessively and negative activities. The teaching body has to face similar challenges. They have to work for low income, which motivates them for non-professional occupations. Universities have to search for additional financial resources. One possibility is being focused on industrial and military researches. But this attempt often fails because there are limits for cooperation with institutions in these sectors and there are limited means for quality research. This paper discusses these problems observed in Pakistan’s system and institutions of higher education.

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