Hanging in balance: Fate of CIIT students still undecided
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ISLAMABAD: Despite transparent directions from a parliamentary panels, a destiny of over 2,600 students of Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) hangs in a change over a twin grade programme instituted in 2010 though a accede of Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).
Over 2,500 students of CIIT have been held between stone and a tough place as a preparation elect and CIIT have nonetheless to strech an gentle solution. The programme started in partnership with a Lancaster University (LU) in UK though that incited out to be a difficulty for a students.
On Oct 9, 2015 a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) motionless that a HEC would usually recognize CIIT’s internal degrees and not that dependent with Lancaster University (LU), that combined to a difficulty surrounding a standing of a programme.
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Different parliamentary panels had intervened to solve a emanate though no accord could be reached between a 3 parties.
Senate Standing Committee on Science and Technology took adult a emanate and non-implementation of a PAC directives progressing this month.
Both a HEC arch Mukhtar Ahmed and CIIT Rector Junaid Zaidi settled that shortly a emanate would be resolved. The cabinet gave 3 months to solve a brawl during a earliest.
Speaking to The Express Tribune Ahmed pronounced he discussed illusive solutions with a LU pro-vice chancellor and an central of varsity’s peculiarity assurance. “On Monday (October 15) Zaidi and HEC executive executive will share records of a assembly and subsequent steps,” he said. He also settled that on Sunday(today) Zaidi will reason a assembly with a students in Lahore.
When asked about a breakthrough in a issue, Ahmed pronounced there were about 800 students who finished their degrees and their box will be dealt alone from those 900 students who were still enrolled. “I am carefree a emanate will expected be resolved in a subsequent month,” he said.
He warned that not a singular varsity opposite a creation could start any programme inside a nation though holding a internal accreditation physique on board besides that unfamiliar varsity had to register their programmes in Pakistan.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 16th, 2016.
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