I fully endorse the views of my old colleague and friend Dr. Qasim Sheikh. Most of our university management and older members of HEC are stuck up in the past rather than defining the future for our young university student population. When we were establishing the new NUST Campus at H-12 in 2008, some of us who were dreamers, threw away the old and meaningless swords and shields emblem of NUST having a regimented mind set with a new and fresh looking emblem alongwith a 21st century connotation DEFINING FUTURES'. This was a challenge not only for the students of NUST joining the new campus but moreso, for the faculty and senior management experiencing a totally new and exhillirating environment. All of us, who have been associated with the Higher Education need to adopt an OUT OF BOX approach to have an INCLUSIVE consideration for our young population working late on line in the comfort of their homes. All stake holders including students, teachers, internet service providers, regulators, education management experts and policy makers have to come on a common platform to visualize the new approach for gaining higher education credentials.
Wishing everybody the very best and praying for innovations all around us.
Engr Mansoor Malik
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
From: qs358@yahoo.comsityion
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:27:44 -0700
Subject: [pakgrid] Need to invert higher education pyramid in Pakistan
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Wishing everybody the very best and praying for innovations all around us.
Engr Mansoor Malik
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
From: qs358@yahoo.comsityion
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:27:44 -0700
Subject: [pakgrid] Need to invert higher education pyramid in Pakistan
It is really exciting to see initiatives taken by Edx, coursera, udacity and others in taking quality higher education to large audience in a very cost effective manner. Unfortunately, entities like HEC, senior management of public and private universities and faculty responsible for this task in Pakistan are enjoying their comfort zone of traditional modes of higher education where quality of education is hardly ever put to a transparent evaluation. Courses being taught on Internet are open to all sorts of open and transparent evaluation.
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I feel that industry has a very significant role to play. For example in IT industry, companies could adopt policy of giving hiring preference to fresh graduates and professionals who take relevant online courses from these top universities of the world. PASHA could take a lead in positively encouraging this hiring practice amongst its members and then reaching out to students and giving them this message as they enter undergraduate education. Students should know that knowledge acquired from these world class online courses is as or more important than name of their institution. This change will happen only if industry demands it and students internalize it on industry demand. Management of HEC and universities and faculty may come along if they realize that their current mental model and resulting management and teaching practices are making them irrelevant due to this change brought by technology.
With Regards
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