Higher education since the passage of the 18th Amendment in April 2010 and devolution of the education sector to provinces, higher education seems in a serious crisis in the country. Balochistan universities had a long list of complaints against the Higher Education Commission (HEC), and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Higher Education Commission was yet to take any shape. Under the 18th Amendment, the provincial governments were supposed to establish their own higher education commissions (HECs). But, despite the passage of more than six years, only Punjab and Sindh had established their own HECs, while Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan failed to make any substantial progress on this front.
The latest QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) higher education institution rankings 2016-17 showed Pakistan at the bottom of the table. The country doesn’t have a single university ranked among the top 500 of the world in the latest Times Higher Education (UK) rankings.
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