BPS faculty delegation calls on Chairman HEC
Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of All Pakistan Universities BPS Teachers Association (APUBTA) on Wednesday called on Chairman, Higher Education Commission (HEC) Prof Dr Tariq Banuri at the HEC Secretariat and apprised him of the problems and challenges being faced by the BPS faculty of public sector universities.
The meeting was also attended by the Executive Director HEC Dr Shaista Sohail, Member Operations and Planning Dr Fateh Marri, Adviser Administration and Coordination Awais Ahmed and Director Quality Assurance Aqeel Akhtar Khan.
The APUBTA representatives said that BPS faculty members comprised 88 percent of the entire faculty in public sector universities, but were facing a systematic and multi-faced discrimination. They demanded that the HEC should set up a service structure for BPS faculty, including promotion rules, performance-based incentives and relaxation in the post Ph.D experience.
They further stated that BPS faculty was laboring under a sense of deprivation and demotivation because of the absence of such rules, inadequacies in benefits, and burden of additional administrative work.
The Chairman HEC assured the delegation that HEC's role was to serve all faculty members, both BPS and TTS, adding that this was the first time that they had approached the HEC and the HEC would work closely with them to resolve the problems they faced in order to promote the quality of teaching and research on an equitable basis.
The APUBTA members thanked the Chairman HEC and expressed strong support for the initiatives introduced by the HEC to enhance the quality of education and research, including the new policies for undergraduate and graduate education, the new system for financing and promotion of research, and the new classification of research journals.
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