Higher Education Quality Assurance Framework Pathway for Transformation in Pakistan: Managerial and Economic Perspectives

Tanveer, Muhammad and Mahmood, Haider and Haq, Ikram Ul and Rather, Raouf Ahmad and Ali, Haider (2021): Higher Education Quality Assurance Framework Pathway for Transformation in Pakistan: Managerial and Economic Perspectives.

Abstract

Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Pakistan is just established in this century, which is responsible for quality checks in higher educational institutes. This study describes the quality assurance framework and its passage toward expanding Pakistan's higher learning institutions. It intends to provide a comprehensive analysis of Pakistan's higher education initiatives, along with the forces behind such measures throughout the last decade. This study also aims to explore the role of the HEC in implementing those reforms. The research study focuses on teachers as significant players in Pakistan's cycle of improving higher education. The demand and supply of higher education are also discussed from a market approach perspective. The qualitative-quantitative aspects of higher education are analyzed. On behalf of observations, the findings presented with the core focus of the analytical approach are provided a balanced picture of the main policy proposals in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in both content and process terms. The study explored that amid many shortcomings, uncertainties, and flaws, multitudes of changes in higher education have been adopted and enforced at Pakistan's HEIs. We float and discuss many practical implications in this regard.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Higher Education, reforms, Pakistan Higher Education, Drivers for Quality Assurance, HEC
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I21 - Analysis of Education

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