Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) under the directions of Federal Government enhanced the amount for Need Based Scholarships Program for undergraduate studies from Rs.2.00 billion in FY 2018-19 to Rs.5.0 billion in FY 2019-2020 through assistance from Ehsaas Program.
According to the report launched on two year performance of PTI government here Tuesday, Need based scholarship funds has also been released in last week of June 2020 and disbursed amongst 119 public sector universities.
HEC following the policies of incumbent government has established a national Centre of Cyber Security to deal with emerging challenge of cyber security.
The report further added that HEC will automate operational processes at 50 universities over a five year period. It will cover learning management systems, admissions, course management, grading, transcripts, scholarships, tuition fees, classroom assignments, staff recruitment and promotion, finance, HR, procurement and inventory. This will improve quality of education as well as financial reporting. Automation of the first set of 10 universities completed, it added.
Under the aegis of the Higher Education Development in Pakistan the project is in the process of creating a national level Higher Education Data Repository (HEDR) at HEC, consisting of granular level data related to students, faculty and staff for all universities.
