Quality Assurance and Enhancement Mechanism in Tertiary Education of Pakistan: Recent Status, Issues and Expectation

Abstract

igher education commission of Pakistan is trying hard and strongly emphasizing to streamline the universities to adopt quality assurance and enhancement mechanism to improve the quality of Tertiary education and research. For this specific purpose, Higher Education Commission (HEC) has established Quality Enhancement cells (QEC) in public sector universities of Pakistan. The main purpose of these cells and centers are to enforce sound standards in higher education quality criteria in Pakistan. This paper would provide an insight about how to recognize the progress of Quality Enhancement Cells as per expectations and what
measures are being taken to face the challenges for assuring andenhancing the quality of education in different institutions.