ISLAMABAD: Former Hi
gher Education Commission (HEC) chairman
Dr Attaur Rehman said that the gov
ernment was eager to dissolve the HEC through the 18th Amendment as the commission was revealing the fake degrees of parliamentarians.
W
hile giving an interview to a media group, Rehman said that formation of national development programmes, verification of degrees and maintenance of quality education could be obstructed by giving the powers of higher education to provinces under 18th Amendment.
With poor and incompetent policies of gov
ernments, the quality of education has been reducing day by day. Moreover, with an increase in budget allocated for education by the current gov
ernment, the quality of education has elevated significantly.
There is no Pakistani university included in the
top 100 universities due to the poor policies and decisions made by the gov
ernments.
Rehman said the gov
ernment should focus on providing quality education to 100 million competent students who were an asset to Pakistan’s future.