Sindh government to retain all 2-year degree programmes

Karachi: The Sindh government has decided to retain all degree programmes of a two-year duration offered by universities and degree-awarding institutions in the province.

The Sindh government has made the decision to this effect against the policy of the Islamabad-based Higher Education Commission (HEC) to abolish two-year degree programmes being offered by institutions of higher education in the country to replace them with the four-year graduation degree.

Speaking at a press conference, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, who is the Sindh chief minister’s adviser on universities and examination boards, said the Sindh government had decided to retain all the two-year graduation programmes in the province while exercising its right in accordance with the concept of provincial autonomy.

He said the subject of higher education had been completely devolved to the provinces from Islamabad in accordance with the 18th Constitutional Amendment.

He said the Sindh had constituted a provincial-level HEC to regulate the affairs of universities in the province in accordance with the concept of provincial autonomy.

He said as such there was no need to retain the HEC at the federal-level when the provinces had constituted their own commissions to regulate the affairs of higher education in their respective domains.

Ill-advised decision

He said the Sindh had its own law for functioning of universities in the province empowering them to decide about the duration of the graduation programmes.

Kuhro said the federal HEC’s decision to abolish the two-year degree programmes interfered with the autonomous functioning of the universities in the province.

He said the ill-advised decision of the federal HEC would deny the opportunity of securing higher education to a large number of students in the province belonging to the lower and middle-income groups.

He said the Sindh government would raise the issue about duration of the graduation programmes at the constitutional forum of the Council of Common Interests.

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