Committee formed to review HEC projects, including foreign collaborated universities

[Naveed Yaseen]

Government has set up a four-member Cabinet Committee to review all Higher Education Commission (HEC) projects including the establishment of Pak-China University.

The Committee includes Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Finance, Economic Affairs & Revenue Hina Rabbani Khar, Special Assistant to PM on Social Sector Shehnaz Wazir Ali, former deputy chairman Planning Commission M Salman Farooqi and Education Secretary Jehangir Bashir, an HEC official told this agency here Tuesday.

The projects have not been shelved but would be executed after the availability of funds, he added.

He said priority would be given to those 7,000 students who are already availing scholarships. “Half of these students are studying in different universities of the country, while the remaining are pursuing their educational careers abroad,” he added.

The government has decided to set up engineering and science & technology universities in the country whose rectors and all faculty members would be foreigners. Agreements have been signed with Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, China and South Korea in this regard.

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