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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Making Pakistani universities a powerhouse of high growth innovation is the main focus of Innovation Steering Committee that has been holding back-to-back brainstorming sessions to deliberate how to transform Pakistani universities to drive high impact innovation, applied research and entrepreneurship. In another meeting of theRead More →

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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan has announced the launching of country’s first government testing body for education sector to conduct free, standardized tests for university admissions. Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms formally launched the , Education Testing Council (ETC)Read More →

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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Higher Education Commission’s Innovation Steering Committee has suggested engaging with senior management of universities to improve output of their Offices of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORICs). The meeting, chaired by Mr. Imtiaz Rastgar, discussed at length the monitoring and evaluation process, development of successRead More →

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ISLAMABAD (BMZ REPORT) The Higher Education Commission’s Innovation Steering Committee held its second meeting within a week to discuss means to strengthen links between academia and industry through the Offices of Research, Innovation and Commercialisation (ORICs) in universities. Representatives from industry and ORICs from four universities in Peshawar and 15Read More →

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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has established an Innovation Steering Committee to further strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship activities in Pakistani universities that will ultimately help in creation of job opportunities as well as country’s economic empowerment. Though some institutions and individuals have performed very wellRead More →

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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan organized a daylong workshop on “Secure Software Development” in collaboration with Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA), and PIEAS at the Commission Secretariat on Thursday. In his opening remarks, Dr. Arshad Ali, Executive Director HEC highlightedRead More →

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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan under the auspices of National Business Education Accreditation Council (NBEAC) organized the 3rd Deans and Directors Conference entitled “Strengthening Business Schools through Partnerships”. The conference, an annual event for determining the future of management education in Pakistan, aimed toRead More →

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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan announced the 5th Ranking of Pakistani Higher Education Institutions for 2013-2014 with an aim to boost academic and research culture among Pakistani universities, and encourage them to compete at international level. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad, Chairman HEC, announced theRead More →

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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Minister of State for IT & Telecom, Mrs. Anusha Rehman said that for true materialization of our vision of “Accelerated Digitization” it becomes imperative that all those ICT opportunities which are available to the private sector school’s students should also be made available to theRead More →

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ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The 32nd meeting of Higher Education Commission’s governing body  was held at the Commission Secretariat on Friday to discuss various issues and policies pertaining to the functioning of HEC. The Commission members stressed the need for upholding all quality parameters set by the Commission regardingRead More →