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Pakistan's romance with western academia


Pakistan’s romance with western academia
Experts urge universities to prioritise local doctorate-holders instead of relying on foreign lecturers
KARACHI:
For private universities across the country, any association to the western world can often be the brightest feather they can pin to their caps.
By virtue of which, foreigners routinely journey to Pakistan, where their services are hankered after in the local academia.
Once here, the possibilities are assumed to be endless. Climbing the professional ladder, claim local pedagogues, is relatively easier for those who come from the global north. Foreigner mediocrity is prioritised over native excellence in Pakistan, believes Karachi University’s former vice chancellor, Dr Pirzada Qasim. “If it is a western name like Edward on the resume, the person’s academic repertoire turns secondary in the eyes of the hiring managers,” he opined with conviction. ....

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In new world post Covid, CIEC continues with old ways


In new world post Covid, CIEC continues with old ways
‘Evaluation of varsities with disregard for shift to online classes will make ranking questionable’
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KARACHI:
In 2019, the evaluation and subsequent grading of Sindh s private universities was interrupted for the year as the world reeled from the aftermath of a deadly pandemic.
After a gap of around a year and a half, the Charter Inspection and Evaluation Committee (CIEC), a body formed to grade and monitor Sindh s public and private universities and recommend chartering of private universities, has resumed the process, picking up from where it left off, employing old and now somewhat redundant criteria for evaluating and ranking varsities and giving little consideration to the fact that the modes of teaching have undergone a drastic change following the Covid-19 outbreak. ....

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