The Young Doctors Association (YDA) has asked the government to force private medical colleges and hospitals to comply with regulations stating that they must create seats for postgraduate training and provide free treatment to 50% of their patients.
The University of Management and Technology (UMT) has been awarded the top position in the general category of the private sector institutions in Punjab by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in its ranking for the year 2013.
A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and University of Health Science on an application, challenging collection of Rs1,18,000 from students under the head of miscellaneous expenses by the private medical colleges.
With private universities emerging in the mid-1980s, Pakistan is a unique example of a system that dropped its dependence on public funding and universities were encouraged to generate their own funds. Country Director British Council Pakistan Peter Upton put forward an important question at the dialogue: is higher education a private commodity, given the decline in state funding?
Girls clinched the top three positions in the annual BA/BSc exams for 2013, while private colleges outperformed government colleges, according to results announced by the Punjab University on Wednesday.
THE Young Doctors Association (YDA), Pakistan, has pointed out that private medical colleges are giving ads in newspapers for admissions prior to completion of process of admissions in government medical/dental institutions in violation of regulations of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC).
In the General Science results the top three positions went to private colleges: the first position was secured by Mehak Fatima of the NCR-CET College of Emerging Technologies with 85.18 percent; the second position was shared by Nimra Amin of the NCR-CET College of Emerging Technologies and Musfirah Abdullah of the DA Degree College for Women with 84.9 percent; and the third position went to Ayesha Nawab of the DA Degree College for Women with 83.72 percent.
Statistics available with this scribe shows that parents and students’ distrust at public sector alma maters and low seating capacity of these colleges providing huge and profitable business to private sector colleges who are charging high fees.
Students of private institutions kept last year’s trend alive by outperforming their counterparts at the public sector colleges when the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the commerce group results on Thursday.
The results of second-year students of commerce and humanities were announced on Thursday during a ceremony hosted at the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi.
There are many things that make Habib University a unique and interesting project, the least of which involves financing of the university and architectural aspects of its campus. In what constitutes "one of the largest" investments in a private university in Pakistan, most of the funding for this university currently comes from House of Habib. But Rizvi says that a good private university needs to be owned by the society, which is why the management plans to raise money from a variety of sources in the private sector.
The deadline for private schools and hospitals to relocate from residential areas should be extended, said Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak on Thursday.
In Sindh, a total of nine public and 13 private medical colleges have been recognized by the PMDC, while 46 medical colleges of Punjab are registered, of which 18 are public and 28 are private medical colleges. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, eight public and nine private medical colleges are recognized, along with one private and one public in Baluchistan and two public and one private medical college in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Provincial minister for Higher Education Commission, Syed Raza Gillani, has announced that distribution of laptops among university students will start from 13th March. A total of 115,000 laptops will be awarded to deserving students from public sector universities. This announcement was made during a departmental meeting at Civil Secretariat on 8th March. Secretary Higher Education Department Naseem Nawaz and representatives of private universities and Punjab Higher Education Commission attended the meeting. Share of public and private universities According to Prime Minister’s Laptop scheme, only public sector university students were eligible to enroll in the program. This meant that around 110,000 laptops were to be distributed to deserving students enrolled in public universities. However, Punjab government has decided to award additional 5,000 laptops to students from private universities. Talking about this change in policy, Raza Gillani said that provision of laptops to private universities is another ‘first’ of Punjab government. He further added that this would help the students to improve their access to the latest knowledge-trends. Schedule of distribution Distribution of these laptops will start from 13th March. Public sector universities will be the first to get these laptops, with private sector universities coming later down the road.