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Contents
Acknowledgement ........................................................................................................................................ 4
Abbreviations and Acronyms ....................................................................................................................... 5
Abstract ......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 7
CHAPTER 1 ............................................................................................................................................... 10
INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 10
Context ........................................................................................................................................ 10
Rationale/Significance of the Study:........................................................................................... 11
Objective of Consultancy: ........................................................................................................... 12
Organization of Report: .............................................................................................................. 13
CHAPTER 2 ............................................................................................................................................... 14
A BRIEF ABOUT THE AFFILIATED COLLEGES IN PAKISTAN....................................................... 14
Recent Initiatives ........................................................................................................................ 18
CHAPTER 3 ............................................................................................................................................... 22
METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................................... 22
3.1. Key Data Sources ........................................................................................................................ 22
3.1.1. Secondary Sources: ................................................................................................................... 22
3.1.2. Data Limitations:................................................................................................................. 22
3.2. College Survey: ........................................................................................................................... 23
CHAPTER 4 ............................................................................................................................................... 25
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ................................................................................................................. 25
4.1. Faculty......................................................................................................................................... 25
4.2. Non-Faculty Staff........................................................................................................................ 26
4.3. Enrolment.................................................................................................................................... 27
4.4. Student admission and intake ...................................................................................................... 28
4.5. Curriculum and Programs ........................................................................................................... 28
4.5.1. Curriculum Development is centralized.............................................................................. 28
4.5.2. Revision is Non-systematic ................................................................................................. 29
4.5.3. Disconnect between taught courses and Labor market requirements ................................. 31
4.5.4. Learning Sources and Logistical Support ........................................................................... 32
4.5.5. Offered courses are limited in certain fields ....................................................................... 34
4.5.6. Recent Innovation ............................................................................................................... 34
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4.5.7. Centralized Examination System ........................................................................................ 34
4.5.8. Internal Evaluation/Assessment in Affiliated Colleges ...................................................... 39
4.5.9. Lack of Systematic & Standardized Monitoring System .................................................... 40
4.5.10. Administrative Mismanagement ......................................................................................... 41
4.5.11. ‘Session Jams’ and Uncertainty .......................................................................................... 41
4.5.12. Admission Application and Registration in Universities .................................................... 41
4.5.13. College Teachers Recruitment ............................................................................................ 42
4.5.14. Training ............................................................................................................................... 42
4.5.15. Lack of Strong Monitoring System ..................................................................................... 44
4.5.16. Curriculum and Teacher-Learning Resources .................................................................... 45
4.5.17. Quality Assurance ............................................................................................................... 46
4.5.18. Assessment .......................................................................................................................... 46
4.6. Affiliation.................................................................................................................................... 46
4.6.1. Affiliation Process............................................................................................................... 46
4.6.2. Motivation of Affiliation:.................................................................................................... 56
4.6.3. Urban Bias in Affiliation: ................................................................................................... 56
4.6.4. Gender Inequality:............................................................................................................... 57
4.6.5. Affiliation Discipline must be offered by Affiliating University ........................................ 57
4.6.6. Unsustainability .................................................................................................................. 57
4.7. Governance ................................................................................................................................. 58
4.7.1. Dual Control........................................................................................................................ 58
4.7.2. Governing Council/Body .................................................................................................... 58
4.7.3. College Council................................................................................................................... 59
4.7.4. Parents Teacher Council ..................................................................................................... 61
4.7.5. Quality Assurance Mechanisms: ......................................................................................... 62
4.8. Financial Autonomy.................................................................................................................... 65
4.8.1. Financing............................................................................................................................. 68
4.8.2. Monitoring System of Affiliated Colleges: ......................................................................... 71
4.8.3. Saturation and Financial Sustainability of Affiliated Colleges: .......................................... 71
4.8.4. Mis-utilization of Public Resources: ................................................................................... 72
4.9. Labor Market .............................................................................................................................. 72
4.10. Hiring, Firing and Transfer of Faculty .................................................................................... 73
CHAPTER 5 ............................................................................................................................................... 75
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CONCLUSION AND POLICY SUGGESTIONS...................................................................................... 75
References ................................................................................................................................................... 79
Appendix ..................................................................................................................................................... 80
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Acknowledgement
I would like to gratitude the various key stakeholders from HEC, Affiliating
Universities, Affiliated Colleges and Academia who open handedly took time from
their hectic schedules and share their views, ideas and help with their nice
suggestions. Adding together I would like to thank Mr. Imtiaz Pirzada, Associate
Professor of Economics and Mr. Jamshed Baloch, Assistant Professor of Social
Work from University of Sindh, Jamshoro; Mr. Qaisar Iqbal, Assistant Professor of
Pharmacy, University of Balochistan, Quetta; Dr. Atif Jaffery, Chairman,
Department of Economics, University of Gujrat, Gujrat; Mr. Bedi uz Zaman and Mr.
Mahmood ul Hassan, Associate Professors of Economics, Mr. Pir Ahmad Hasan,
Assistant Professor of History, University of Sargodha, Sargodha; Muhammad
Javaid Ahmad, Assistant Professor, Govt. College Jahanian for their assistance in
the data collection activities across different provinces. All these persons remain
committed exclusively as they acknowledge the significance of this issue regarding
the tertiary education of Pakistan. Besides academia, I would also like to express my
gratitude to Mr. Najeeb ur Rehman Bugvi, AIG, Establishment and Lt. Col. Dr.
Malik Shoaib, CO, CMH Mardan for providing security and logistic support for data
collection in KP; and
This study has been greatly benefitted by the opinions of responsible administration
personnel in the registrar office and examination office, and members of affiliation
teams in universities. This input has really helped a lot in the interpretation of
quantitative results, making of meaningful discussion and formulation of policy
suggestions.
In the accomplishment of this report, the role of Dr. Ishrat Lodhi, focal person from
HEC, is highly commendable. I am obliged and extend my deepest gratitude to her
for continuous help in matters where the study needs to take the best among different
alternatives.
Team Members
Dr. Muhammad Sarwar, Associate Professor of Education; Ms. Safana Shaheen,
Associate Professor of Economics; Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Nauman Malik
and Muhammad Amir Aslam, Lecturers in Economics, University of Sargodha,
Sargodha have all assisted diligently and enthusiastically as responsible members of
project team during different stages like data enumeration, coding, editing, report
writing, Focus Group Discussion etc.
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
and firing matters but exploitation of faculty cannot be negated. Reforms are required at both
affiliating universities and affiliated colleges levels. More decentralization is needed at university
level with adequate and active surveillance of colleges with transparency and accountability.
Grants should be given to colleges with relevant schemes of incentive and resource aid for
improvement. Teacher training programs and curriculum revision should be systematic in process
for better and consistent learning outcomes. Secondary sources are very limited in its scope and
periodic surveys for various dimensions of affiliated colleges information should be carried out so
that evidence-based policy could be made for long term improvement in affiliated colleges.
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Executive Summary
Around the world tertiary education have been recognized as a way to achieve transformation from
a resource-driven economy to an efficiency-driven one. This tertiary education supported path
would eventually lead towards an innovative and knowledge intensive economy. Recognizing this
very fact which is already being experienced in the developed countries and in emerging
economies, Vision 20251 of Pakistan has greatly valued the accumulation of human capital.
Tertiary education has a significant role in the economic upgradation of a country. Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) were being pursued by Pakistan since 2000 but the emphasis of
MDGs rests over primary education. In the meanwhile, with the establishment of Higher Education
Commission (HEC) in 2002 tertiary education sector got a boost in Pakistan. Different new public
and private universities were given charter to initiate and at the same time existing ones increased
their capacity and efficiency because of the increased competition in higher education market.
Affiliated colleges system is inherited by Pakistan after the partition of subcontinent in 1947. In
Affiliated colleges graduate and post graduate courses are offered under the academic guidance of
Affiliating Universities and managerial administration of Higher Education Departments (HEDs)
in respective provinces. Currently, a major chunk of tertiary education students is being
accommodated by the affiliated colleges. This has happened as HEC mandated the universities in
policy guideline in Medium Term Development Framework – II (MTDF-II) 2011-15 to increase
the access of students to higher education setup and increase the enrolment in tertiary education.
Newly established or nascent universities which were established after 2002 contributed a lot in
the mushroom growth of affiliated colleges.
In the backdrop of above mentioned facts, this study is an endeavor by HEC to assess the current
situation of affiliated colleges so that appropriate measures can be taken for the upgradation and
capacity building of colleges in terms of quality and efficiency. Secondary sources are insufficient
to completely reveal the resources and outcome of affiliated colleges. Hence, these reasons make
the space for this study.
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A Policy Note which describes the suggested pillars of socio-economic development of Pakistan as a future
strategy up till 2025. The document is prepared by the Planning Commission of Pakistan.
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Key Messages
Affiliated colleges have been expanded in a loose regulatory system by the affiliating
universities. Active governance is required in which strict regulatory systems are
developed for the systematic monitoring and accountability of affiliated colleges.
Directorate of Affiliation should be established in each affiliating university.
Regional offices may be established for the regulation of affiliated colleges under the
supervision of Directorate of Affiliation in affiliating universities.
Quality Enhancement Cell for affiliated colleges should be established within the
Directorate of Affiliation.
Universities may be restricted to certain geographic territories for affiliation in order to
improve the monitoring of affiliated colleges.
Data systems of universities and their affiliated colleges be established in the registration
branches with complete automation.
Various sections of affiliating universities are over-burdened after the mushroom growth
of affiliated colleges. Hence, capacity building in terms of physical and human resources
is required and justified.
Labor Force survey, Household survey and Development Statistics are not sufficient to
analyze the situation of graduates in market, especially with reference to the affiliated
colleges. Periodic survey is required to assess the demand of employers in market, courses
being mostly demanded by the students, time to get a job in labor market, what are the
market and community driven courses and programs and how much they got enrolment
etc.
Quality Enhancement Cells must be established to evaluate the performance of affiliated
colleges on periodic and systematic way.
Curriculum Development and revision should be systematic in which stakeholders from
colleges must be invited. Course contents relevance with respect to time of program, study
material availability, teacher training etc. must be ensured.
Paper checking should be centralized with impressive remuneration. If centralized marking
is not possible then high remuneration along with more disbursement of papers across
paper checkers should be carried out so that paper checkers can pay more attention.
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Government should devise a mechanism in which grant must be disbursed as prize to well
performing colleges, incentive to those colleges which are trying to be better and aid to
those which are resource deficit but can perform well.
It is better to disburse grant in tangible form where direct capacity building is possible as
libraries, access to journals, availability of computers, access to internet etc.
Greater financial autonomy should be given to the principals of public sector colleges as
we can see in private colleges.
Teacher training programs must focus upon course content refresher courses which is the
neglected part in training programs. Master trainer programs with appropriate study
material regarding the course content must be ensured to increase the efficacy of these
training programs. Currently, the whole emphasis is upon andragogical skills2.
University and colleges must both be in contact with industry for the establishment of
academia–industry linkages. It helps to design courses as per the requirement of market,
remove deficiencies in existing teaching patterns etc.
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Skills to teach the adult learners.
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Context
Vision 2025 aims to smoothly transit Pakistan from an input-driven to a productivity-driven
economy. This can be achieved with the help of a rapid pace of economic growth and
competitiveness while strengthening Pakistan’s capability to innovate, adapt and create indigenous
technology and design, develop and market new products; thereby providing the foundation for
local growth (GOP, 2014). This transition is dependent on the performance of the higher education
and science and technology sectors which can contribute towards Knowledge economy.
Institutions of the higher learning will play a leadership role through the production of skilled,
innovative and enterprising knowledge workers. Research organizations will also come up with
solution based and innovative research in collaboration with the industry and academia for fruitful
results (HEC, 2011).
Since the establishment of Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Pakistan, tertiary education
sector has improved a lot. From infrastructure to the recent setup of Quality Enhancement Cells
(QECs) in Universities, HEC contributed a lot in the socio-economic development of Pakistan.
But still there are many avenues which need improvement e.g. few universities in top 500 ranking,
PhD faculty in universities and R&D organizations is still much less than the global standards etc.
One such area is of access to higher education. It is estimated that less than seven per cent youth,
aged between 17-23 years, have access to higher education, which is next only to the sub-Saharan
countries. Pakistan will improve this to 10-12 per cent during the Plan period (GOP, 2013).
Of course, this needs provision of access through setting up new universities, establishing sub-
campuses of the universities and enhancing enrolment capacity of the existing universities.
Keeping in view this policy, many new universities have been established in far-flung areas as
well as metropolitan areas, while establishing women universities to address gender imbalance in
the tertiary education and introduction of disciplines more relevant to women, like social sciences,
media, fine arts, textile designing, home economics, etc. The role of distance learning universities
cannot be ignored for the higher education. Two distance learning universities, the Allama Iqbal
Open University and Virtual University, are expanding their outreach.
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Pakistan inherited the mechanism of affiliated colleges from British India (World Bank, 2011).
However, there has been a recent new phenomenon in which affiliated colleges expanded at large
scale under the umbrella of both old and nascent Universities of Pakistan. A significant chunk of
today’s tertiary education students are held by affiliated colleges in Pakistan (GOP, 2013). Hence,
the role of affiliated colleges can never be negated in near future, given their specific purpose of
delivering higher education at door step in far flung areas of Pakistan as responsible learning arms
of affiliating universities. It was envisaged that such provision of higher education at the door step
would be majorly conducive on two grounds; firstly, it would be relatively inexpensive. Secondly,
it would reduce inequalities pertaining to the deprived areas and girls’ education.
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increase access, improve the quality and relevance of teaching and research, strengthen and
modernize governance and management of HEIs. Recognizing the need to accelerate reforms of
tertiary education, the government is now preparing the MTDF-HE (III) for 2016–20. To provide
analytical underpinning for the design and preparation of the MTDF-III, the HEC plans to carry
out a series of background studies to assess critical sector issues. These studies will help the HEC
in identifying issues and policy options. Among those background studies, this study is focused
upon Affiliated Colleges.
Objective of Consultancy:
The main purpose of the consultancy is to provide an up-to-date, evidence-based and objective
account of the performance and challenges of affiliated colleges in Pakistan, and to offer a menu
of possible measures to overhaul their performance and overcome the challenges.
The consultant focused on the following areas and issues:
Student admission and intake (selection policy & practice);
Enrollment distribution by types of college (public/private; intermediary/ degree…),
disciplines, programs, affiliating universities, location, and gender;
Graduation (time to graduate, drop-outs, transfers, learning assessment tools, transition to
university);
Teaching staff (qualifications, selection, promotion, teaching load, remuneration, etc.);
Curricula and programs (quality and relevance, reviews, adherence, etc.);
Affiliating mechanisms (type and scope of the services rendered by affiliating universities:
how efficient? how sufficient? etc.);
Financing (sources and amount of funds, breakdown of expenditure; student aid: fees and
scholarships);
Governance (level of academic, administrative and financial autonomy vis à vis
Department of Education /Affiliating University / Central & Provincial HEC; internal
governance system and capacity);
Graduates’ situation in the labor market (time to land a job; match between skills acquired
and skills demanded).
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Organization of Report:
The introduction section would be followed by a brief about the education sector of Pakistan with
special relevance to affiliated colleges in Pakistan. Later on, methodology would be discussed and
then results (Quantitative) of the data analysis would be presented. Finally, the discussion would
be made about the results (Quantitative & Qualitative) in the light of objectives and in the end
conclusion would be made along with policy recommendations.
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CHAPTER 2
In Pakistan, the education is generally organized at three levels namely primary (year one through
five); secondary (year six through twelve) and tertiary (graduate and advanced degrees). The
structure of education is similar across all the provinces. The major certifications at secondary level
are Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC). Both
certifications are being given after an examination by different provincial and federal boards. In
tertiary education, the degree level exists at two levels. First one is the degree level and the second
one is Post graduate level or Masters’ level (sixteen years of education). After that research specific
studies exists in the form of Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) or Master of Science (MS) which is
accumulatively to be eighteen years of education. PhD is a specialization which can be initiated
after the completion of MPhil/MS studies (GOP, 2015).
Recently, four-year bachelor course (BS Program) has been launched in which the intake is right
after the completion of Intermediate studies. The completion of BS studies would mean
accumulatively sixteen years of education.
In tertiary level, graduate, post graduate and BS courses are being taught both at universities and
affiliated colleges. However, the examination is being conducted by affiliating universities for
affiliated colleges in both Annual system and Term system (Semester system with examination
conduction by University)3. In affiliated colleges both Public and Private Sector colleges are
working. Private Colleges are further sub divided into two categories, one may be called as Group
Private Colleges and other one as Non-Group Private Colleges. Group private College is a system
of colleges in which different franchises are established along with a central monitoring head office
with standardized monitoring mechanism whereas in Non-Group Private colleges there is no
concept of franchise establishment. The decision making is more individualistic centered upon the
owner of the college4.
Regretfully, even after so much expansion of affiliated colleges across Pakistan there has not been
any continuous periodical survey/census to assess the capacity building and efficiency of colleges
3
FGDs and KIIs
4
Ibid
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in Pakistan neither at Federal/HEC level nor at provincial level. However, some basic, available
and latest information (Table 2-1) about the faculty, enrolment and number of affiliated colleges
are as follows;
* Enrolment whose gender break up was not provided it has been added in the male category.
Source: Punjab Development Statistics 2015
Sindh Development Statistics 2014 (yet to be released)
Baluchistan Development Statistics 2014
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Development Statistics 2015
It is pertinent to mention over here that the only reliable and credible source of information is of
provincial development statistics regarding affiliated colleges/institutions. Even the same source
is not free of data limitations. For instance, there have not been any rural/urban and private/public
divisions of affiliated colleges. Table 2-2 shows that in terms of enrolment there is clear
discrimination against female as male enrolment is more than the female enrolment in all
provinces.
* Faculty whose gender break up was not provided it has been added in the male category.
Source: Punjab Development Statistics 2015
Sindh Development Statistics 2014 (yet to be released)
Baluchistan Development Statistics 2014
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Development Statistics 2015
Female 450 90 65 21
* Institutions whose gender break up was not provided it has been added in the male category.
Source: Punjab Development Statistics 2015
Sindh Development Statistics 2014 (yet to be released)
Baluchistan Development Statistics 2014
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Development Statistics 2015
Number of separate institutions on the basis of gender are once again more for the male relative to
the female (Table2-4).
There is difference in the number of affiliated colleges if we compare the statistics given in
different Provincial Development Statistics Reports (Table 2-1) and by Higher Education
Commission (HEC) of Pakistan (Table A.4 in Appendix). The number of affiliated colleges of
HEC are more than the Provincial Development Statistics Reports’ figure. This may be due to the
reason that grant of affiliation is program-based. Same college is affiliated with more than one
university for its different affiliated programs. Consequently, multiple counting of same college is
quite possible when we arrange affiliated colleges by affiliating universities5.
The data of Islamabad Capital Territory(ICT), GB and AJK was not available from secondary
sources. Hence, collectively using both Provincial Development Reports (Table 2-1) and HEC
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See appendix to view anomalies of Affiliated Colleges list of HEC. Complete list was retrieved from HEC Website in
the month of March, 2016 (http://www.hec.gov.pk/english/universities/Pages/DAIs/HEC-Recognized-
Universities.aspx).
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Affiliated Colleges List (Table A.4 in Appendix), we can construct an overall picture of Affiliated
Colleges in Pakistan as follows;
It is pertinent to mention here that the List of Affiliated colleges by HEC is not supplemented with
number of faculty and enrolment.
Recent Initiatives
1. There were various concerns about the 2-year bachelor program system regarding its
benefit in the continuously changing labor market of today’s globalized world. Hence,
following the study pattern of foreign countries, 4 – year Bachelor (BS) program was
launched. This program is successfully running in almost all universities of Pakistan with
the aim that eventually it will replace the 2-year bachelor program.
2. Students of affiliated colleges were previously enrolled in the system of 2-year bachelor
program only relative to the universities having both 2-year (BA/B Sc.) and 4-year (BS)
programs of bachelors. In order to remove this inequality for the students of affiliated
colleges, now the affiliation is being granted for BS programs in KP and Punjab (Table 2-
6). Still there are various reservations about the physical and human resources of affiliated
colleges for the adequate deliverance of BS program.
6
Table A.1 in Appendix
7
Table A.2 in Appendix
8
Table A.3 in Appendix would give more provincial level details.
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5. Recently, Government of Punjab has launched its Faculty Development Program (FDP)
for the year 2014-15 in which the faculty of public sector colleges would be sent to top 300
foreign institutions and universities for higher education and training. This initiative of
Punjab government aims to enhance the capacity building and service delivery of affiliated
colleges9.
6. In another scheme, Punjab government is implementing its ‘Provision of Missing Facilities
to Colleges’ strategy as part of Annual Development Plan (ADP) in which the colleges
would be furnished all those facilities which are lacking e.g. additional class room, toilet
block, hostels, bus sheds, academic blocks, residences, boundary walls, science and
computer labs and other allied facilities10.
7. Since 2011-12, Punjab government is distributing laptops free of cost to the students of
affiliating universities and public sector affiliated colleges on merit basis. This initiative
has opened online international means and sources of learning and knowledge11.
8. The present Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has launched a landmarked initiative
about the provision of Scholarships to students with initial seed money of Rs. 500 million.
The seed money has been enhanced by providing further grant of Rs. 500 million. The
Endowment Fund is regulated under Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Higher Education Scholarships
Endowment Fund Act, 2014 and governed by a Board under the chair of Honorable Chief
Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The aim is to provide scholarships to talented and
deserving students of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa purely on merit-cum-affordability basis in
order to improve the standards of education and to produce highly qualified and
professionally skilled/trained manpower to cater the future needs of the province in
selected fields12.
9. Naway Sahar laptop Scheme was initiated by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in
2012-13 under the scheme free of cost laptop computers were distributed amongst the
talented students of the Province. An amount of Rs. 1 billion was utilized for the scheme
and a total of 23147 laptops were purchased through a transparent process13.
9
www.hed.punjab.gov.pk
10
ibid
11
www.hed.punjab.gov.pk
12
www.hed.gkp.pk
13
ibid
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10. Higher Education Teacher Training Academy (HETTA)14 has been efficiently working for
the training of teachers in the colleges of KP. The academy is conducting trainings in
respect of two broader areas; 1) Professional Development and Orientation Programs
includes modules of teachers and management staff for their professional development; 2)
Professional Research and Information Support includes in-depth research, analysis,
information, and organize programs, seminars and conferences for teachers and staff to
increase their understanding of professional, technical and organizational issues and to
enhance know-how regarding their role and performance.
11. Balochistan Academy for College Teachers (BACT)15 is training the teachers of colleges
in Balochistan since 2004. Moreover, it also conducts trainings of College Principals and
Vice Principals in order to improve their managerial skills. The provincial government has
planned to increase the working horizon of BACT in coming years.
14
http://higher_education.kp.gov.pk/page/higher_education_teacher_training_academy_hetta
15
BESP (2013-18)
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CHAPTER 3
METHODOLOGY
3.1. Key Data Sources
3.1.1. Secondary Sources:
For secondary data, the study used the officially declared Development Statistics Reports of
provinces. When contacted for latest statistics which might be compiled but yet to be released
officially by the respective statistics sections of provinces, only Sindh provide us information of
Education Section data (2012-13) in Development Statistics of Sindh 2014 report. Hence, the
following sources of secondary data were used;
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3.2. College Survey:
Institutional sources of data do not provide us sufficient information for the analysis of affiliated
colleges in Pakistan. Therefore, in order to fill this gap, survey of colleges has been done.
Table 3-1
Four Universities were selected from Punjab. Out of these four, two were from central Punjab, one
from south Punjab and one from north. One university each from KP, Balochistan and Sindh were
selected. Within each University, colleges were selected randomly. The sampling frame in each
university was the official list of affiliated colleges of that affiliating university available on the
website of HEC. As university of Sargodha and University of the Punjab are two largest
universities regarding the number of affiliated colleges, so we have selected 30 affiliated colleges
each from both of the universities. Twenty affiliated colleges were selected each from university
of Gujrat and Baha-Ud-din Zikryia University Multan. Twenty colleges were selected from
university of Sindh Jamshoro and twenty from university of Peshawar, KP. Ten colleges were
selected from university of Balochistan, Quetta.
An important feature of this study is the combination of quantitative and qualitative data, collected
from the affiliated colleges. College survey instrument and Focus Group Discussion/Key
Informant Interview guidelines were developed in consultation with the stakeholders like HEC
and World Bank. The instruments were piloted as part of the design process. Again these
instruments were revised in the light of the pilot. Some questions that proved to be not very useful
were removed and additional relevant questions were included and piloted.
The questionnaire instrument (Quantitative-side) was used to collect information from affiliated
colleges. For quantitative data analysis, the study used SPSS software. On qualitative-side, Key
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Informant Interviews (KIIs) were conducted with the responsible and higher officials of affiliation
teams, registrar and controller of examination offices of the affiliating universities. Focus group
discussions with students, teachers and parents were conducted. The focus group guides and Key
Informant Interviews are not questionnaires; they are topic guides to ensure that the discussion
remain focused and sharing of views remain convenient. The feedback/perceptions/opinions of
focus groups discussions and Key Informant Interviews were added into the discussion of
quantitative results making them more fruitful.
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CHAPTER 4
4.1. Faculty
Faculty is an important part in any education institution. The progress of education institution
depends upon the satisfaction of students about their teachers’ deliverance of knowledge. Table 4-
1 shows the on average situation of faculty in affiliated colleges. Overall number of professors and
Associate Professors are low in both public and private colleges where more severity is in private
colleges. Mostly Assistant Professors and Lecturers are working and their availability in number
is more in public colleges on average. Part time teaching staff is more in private colleges relative
to the private colleges.
In terms of qualification (Table 4-2), overall the faculty with M. Phil/PhD are less in number on
average. Public colleges are more beneficial as compared to private colleges. Majority of the
faculty is having 16 years of education means Masters as highest degree. 16 years of education is
still the major condition for entrance in the faculty of affiliated colleges and universities. BS Hons
graduate appeared to have little interest in teaching as per our sample result.
M. Phil / PhD Highest Degree Masters Highest Degree BS Hons Highest Degree
Max Min Mean Max Min Mean Max Min Mean
Public 10 0 0.9 28 1 3.49 2 0 0.01
Colleges
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Private 3 0 0.52 9 0 2.52 1 0 0.01
Colleges
Table 4-3 shows us the level of expertise measured with the help of experience in teaching
profession. It is being observed that public college’s faculty is much more experienced as
Compared to the private sector faculty. One possible reason could be the job security in public
sector which retain faculty and may even attract the private sector faculty as the faculty in private
sector is relatively inexperienced. It might be possible that private colleges prefer less experienced
staff as they might accept lesser salaries.
Technical Lab Staff is again more in public colleges than private colleges. It can be taken as
positive factor as this staff can service more and more students in understanding different scientific
practical. There is almost no training program for the improvement in the managerial skills of the
non-teaching staff (Table 4-5).
Management Training
Max Min Mean
Public Colleges 4 0 0.01
Private Colleges 0 0 0
4.3. Enrolment
Enrolment in degree level (Table 4-6) shows that public colleges are accommodating more
students relative to private colleges whereas in post graduate level private colleges are getting
bigger share of students. In BS 4-year program, public colleges are successful in getting maximum
students relative to private colleges. It is good as it has been introduced as a reform or initiative in
recent past.
Dropout ratio (Table 4-7) shows that drop out ratio is higher in public colleges as compared to
private colleges in both degree and post-graduate levels whereas in BS program the trend is
reversed as more dropout is in private colleges. In all programs, the drop out ratios of boys are
more as compared to the girls. Hence, girls are performing well relative to the boys.
Admission Criteria
0.0
Capacity to Pay
23.5
Public
Private 6.7
Other
47.1
93.3
Marks obtained in Intermediate/undergraduate degree
29.4
0.0 2.6
Private Public
It is being perceived that these centralized curriculum development committees usually do not
know about the ground situation of affiliated colleges and their staff. There are various
reservations of college teachers about the course contents in terms of the proposed
suggested/recommended books, the contents are not rational in terms of time etc. The composition
of committee is highly skewed and there is negligible level of participation from college teachers.
More than 97% responses from public and private colleges showed that they have no representative
in curriculum development committees (Fig 4.5-1).
8.7
2.7
Private Public
Both public (91.3%) and private (97.3%) colleges responded that there is no issue of availability
of books (Fig 4.5-2). As the revision is seldom therefore books are available in the market as the
demand remains consistent for the same authors and publishers.
8
3.3
Private Public
Fig 4.5-3 Percentage of Colleges whom are (not) intimated about Curriculum Change
Whatever and whenever the change is made either by the centralized curriculum committee of the
HEC or affiliating university’s department that would be properly intimated to the concerned
affiliated college (Fig 4.5-3).
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Clarity of Outline
Yes No
99.0 98.1
1.0 1.9
Private Public
Fig 4.5-4 Percentage of colleges whom have or have not clarity about Outline
There has been no issue about the clarity in outline of curriculum as more than 98% of both private
and public sector colleges were quite satisfied with it.
79.2
64.4
35.6
20.8
Private Public
Fig 4.5-5 Percentage of Colleges possessing committee for the selection of market driven courses
There has been limited practice of market driven committee for new courses or disciplines to be
taken in affiliation. Private sector is particularly curious about the demand of students as they have
to compete in market to get maximum students to make their colleges sustainable in terms of cost
and profit. Public sector college teachers remain least interested in such practice as they do not
have any pressure for more program affiliations. The reason is secure service structure of
government in which the government cannot lay off teachers in the premise that the college is not
enrolling more students in different courses or subjects.
77.0
60.4 Yes
No
39.6
23.0
Private Public
Fig 4.5-6 Percentage of colleges providing (or not providing) computer accessibility to teachers
There is wide inequality between private and public colleges in terms of computers accessibility.
Private sector, particularly the private group colleges, are much efficient in this area as 77% of
private colleges have given computers to teachers. In public colleges, 60.4% colleges have
provided computers to the teachers (Fig 4.5-6).
92.0
79.2
Yes
No
20.8
8.0
Private Public
Fig 4.5-7 Percentage of colleges providing (or not providing) internet accessibility to teachers
7.5
Fully Dissatisfied Public
9.8
Private
18.9
More or less dissatisfied 22.0
24.5
More or less satisfied 30.5
49.1
Fully satisfied 37.8
Fig 4.5-8 Percentage of colleges satisfied (dissatisfied) with the Timeline of Results (Graduate)
The rule is this that internal examiner is to set question paper and forward the same to the external
examiner who is bound to change a fixed percentage of question paper. Examination centers and
invigilation staff are also established and nominated respectively by the controller office. Later on,
the distribution of solved papers among paper checkers to result declaration process is strictly run
by the same office.
8.7 Public
Fully Dissatisfied 7.7
Private
8.7
More or less dissatisfied 26.9
47.8
More or less satisfied 40.4
34.8
Fully satisfied 25.0
Fig 4.5-9 Percentage of colleges satisfied (dissatisfied) with the Timeline of Results
(Post Graduate)
13
More or less dissatisfied 19.2
17.4
More or less satisfied 30.8
69.6
Fully satisfied 42.3
Fig 4.5-10 Percentage of colleges satisfied (dissatisfied) with the Quality of Examination
Contents (Graduate)
13
More or less dissatisfied 19.2
17.4
More or less satisfied 30.8
69.6
Fully satisfied 42.3
Fig 4.5-11 Percentage of colleges satisfied (dissatisfied) with the Quality of Examination
Contents (Post Graduate)
Our results (Fig 4.5-10 & 4.5-11) showed that in both degree and post graduate level, majority of
the colleges are falling in the categories of Fully Satisfied and More or Less Satisfied. There is a
general inequality in each category.
11.3 Public
Fully Dissatisfied 8.5
Private
13.2
More or less dissatisfied 17.1
43.4
More or less satisfied 43.9
32.1
Fully satisfied 30.5
Fig 4.5-12 Percentage of colleges satisfied (dissatisfied) with the Quality of Marking (Graduate)
There are areas where improvement is required to make marking system optimal. At degree level
(Fig 4.5-12), the response of public college is more or less same across categories whereas majority
| RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 37
of the private colleges are less satisfied with the quality of marking. At post graduate level (Fig
4.5- 13), majority of both private and public colleges are in the category of More or Less Satisfied
but even then 16.8% of Public and 21.1% of private are relatively dissatisfied.
0 Public Private
Fully Dissatisfied 3.8
13
More or less dissatisfied 17.3
56.5
More or less satisfied 57.7
30.4
Fully satisfied 21.2
Fig 4.5-13 Percentage of colleges satisfied (dissatisfied) with the Quality of Marking (Post-
Graduate)
1.9
Fully Dissatisfied Public
3.7
Private
5.7
More or less dissatisfied 1.2
22.6
More or less satisfied 29.3
69.8
Fully satisfied 65.9
Fig 4.5-14 Percentage of colleges satisfied (dissatisfied) with the Invigilation (Graduate)
0
More or less dissatisfied 0.0
34.8
More or less satisfied 33.3
65.2
Fully satisfied 66.7
Fig 4.5-15 Percentage of colleges satisfied (dissatisfied) with the Invigilation (Post Graduate)
In FGDs, it is reported that there are few cases of problems when complete papers are made void
due to invigilation. Inefficiencies exist but overall the invigilation is transparent.
16
Semester system in Affiliated colleges is known as Term System. Term system is different from Semester system
of University in the sense that in Term System Part of the total marks are being allotted by the teachers in affiliated
colleges and the rest are allotted by the examination of affiliating university.
| RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 39
with varying intensity. It is being reported in FGDs that generally this internal assessment in
practice is much fairer in public colleges as compared to private colleges.
84
76.1
23.9
16
Private Public
Fig 4.5-16 Percentage of Colleges having Teachers evaluation from Students whom they taught.
There is very limited trend of any teacher evaluation by the students in the public sector colleges.
The private sector colleges is in practice of doing the evaluation but mostly it is informal and lacks
any systematic system. However, group private colleges are good in this area as they are in routine
of taking questionnaire based teacher appraisal (Fig 4.5-16).
4.5.14. Training
The affiliating universities have no system of teacher training for affiliated colleges’ teachers.
Hence, a formal training system on regular basis is needed to improve the capacity building of
teachers. We can see that the decision about the books to be taught is primarily taken by the
teachers (Fig 4.5-17). Hence, if teachers are properly trained in terms of course contents and
andragogy17 they will definitely produce results for students in terms of more understanding and
skill enhancement.
17
The methods and practices used in teaching adults. In contrast to ‘pedagogy’ in which we teach the children.
| RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 42
Decision regarding the selection of Text Books
47.2
Teacher 73.6
1.9
Principal 4.6
26.4
The affiliating university 20.7
Public
24.5
Government Department 1.1 Private
Generally, the affiliated colleges are not so much interested in offering teachers training facilities
(Fig 4.5-18). As the results are showing that public sector colleges are least interested in it as 92%
colleges do not offer/manage/avail such activities.
Private Public
Fig 4.5-18 Percentage of Colleges offering (or not offering) training to the faculty
In private sector, there is trend of training (54%) but it is much more inclined for the group private
colleges relative to non-group colleges.
HETTA and BACT have been praised in the FGDs but still there is need to increase the coverage
of college teachers. Moreover, the trainings need to be curriculum based as well along with
andragogical ones.
17.3
10.4
Private Public
There have been no regularized Quality Enhancement Cells (QEC) in affiliated colleges in both
public and private colleges (Fig 4.5-19). In FGDs, it was revealed that practice is of an informal
college level committee (which the college considered to be equivalent to QEC or Quality
Assurance Mechanism) is established to assure the general quality of college ranging from
cleanliness to teacher presence in classes. Even such mechanisms are limited in practice for public
colleges (8%) but 78.1% of private colleges are working by this mechanisms (Fig 4.5-20). But this
is strictly informal without any standards.
21.9
8
Private Public
Fig 4.5-20 Does the college have its Quality Assurance mechanism in Colleges?
Private Sector colleges are much more conscious in the provision of outlines to the students as
compared to the Public sector colleges (Fig 4.5-21).
52
48
4.7
Private Public
Fig 4.5-21 Percentage of Colleges which are (not) providing outline to students?
4.5.18. Assessment
In broader view, the whole examination system needs systematic improvement at all fronts. Right
from Paper setting to the result finalization, we need regular capacity building which should be
adaptable to the changing circumstances and needs of the students and affiliated colleges.
4.6. Affiliation
In Pakistan, only public sector universities are eligible to grant affiliation to colleges under the
affiliation guidelines of HEC. The basic criteria involve multiple elements like area, library, letter
from the respective directorate of colleges to be function as college etc. All Universities are not
exactly following this criterion as somehow they managed to relax them. This fact can be judged
by the variation in the responses of affiliated colleges in this section.
83.9
71.7
28.3
16.1
Private Public
Fig 4.6-1 Colleges (%) whom have (haven’t) attained the DPI letter earlier than the grant of
Affiliation
The criteria is multidimensional and it may include governing body, qualification of staff,
infrastructure in terms of buildings, laboratories, equipment, furniture, libraries, books, total area
and play grounds etc. Finally, the recommendations of the affiliation teams would be forwarded
by the vice Chancellor to the syndicate for final approval of the affiliation. Even after the grant of
affiliation, the affiliation team can visit the college for quality check. If the team get unsatisfied
then the same team can recommend for de-affiliation.
24.5
longer than 6 Months 5.7
7.5
4-6 Months 16.1
13.2
3-4 Months 36.8
34
1-2 Months 33.3
20.8
After Starting Classes 8.0
Fig 4.6-2 Percentage of college’s submission of affiliation application time before the start of
session
The public colleges are lying at two extremes. Mostly applied the application in one to two months
or more than six months before the session start. On the other hand, private colleges mostly applied
in the range of three to six time period before the initiation of admission (Fig 4.6-2).
28.3
longer than 6 Months 28.7
18.9
4-6 Months 16.1
20.8
3-4 Months 34.5
32.1
1-2 Months 20.7
Fig 4.6-3 3 Percentage of colleges as per the time between the affiliation application submission
and first visit of affiliation team.
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Affiliation team usually visits the private sector college in three to four months after the application
submission whereas for public sector colleges the visit delay could be more than six months in
most of the cases (Fig 4.6-3).
95.4
86.8
Yes
No
13.2
4.6
Private Public
Access to computers (Fig 4.6-4) is best in private colleges (95.4%) in comparison with the public
sector colleges (86.8%). In the same line, the computer laboratories equipped with internet
connectivity (Fig 4.6-5) is more in private colleges (95.4%) relative to public sector colleges
(80%).
20
4.6
Private Public
84.9
65.5
32.2
13.2
Private Public
Books in library are in good situation in all colleges. In Public Sector, 84.9% colleges have more
than 2000 books and in private college it is 65.5% (Fig 4.6-6).
5.7 Public
>90%
10.3
Private
7.5
Between 50% and 90%
19.5
39.6
Between 10% and 50%
52.9
47.2
<10%
17.2
Fig 4.6-7 Percentage of college libraries with different proportions of Text books to the total
books
However, books other than Text books are more in public sector colleges than in private sector
colleges. In Public sector, 47.2% of the libraries contain less than 10% text books whereas 52.9%
62.3
>50
67.8
20.8
Between 10 and 50
11.5
9.4
Less than 10
20.7
Public
3.8
Zero
Private
Fig 4.6-8 Percentage of colleges with different number books purchase in 2014-15
The tendency towards the improvement in the quantity of books is more for both private and public
sector colleges as more than 60% of both types of colleges purchase more than 50 books in the
year 2014-15 (Fig 4.6-8).
Auditorium Availability
83.9 Yes
No
56.6
43.4
16.1
Private Public
Multimedia Availability
No Yes
52.8
Public
47.2
19.5
Private
80.5
80.5% private sector colleges have at least one projector relative to 47.2% of public sector colleges
(Fig 4.6-10). In most of the cases the multimedia was exclusively for any particular lecture or
presentation. In each class the availability of this facility is almost negligible.
65.5
Private 34.5
Yes
58.2 60
No
41.2 40
Private Public
Fig 4.6-12 Percentage of Colleges with or without Transport facility for Students
Majority of the colleges in both public and private colleges do not have transport facility. 58.2%
of private colleges and 60% of the public colleges do not have transport facility (Fig 4.6-12). This
is also a hurdle in the way of getting more education given high fares of transport, security situation
and poor quality of public transport.
75.5
Public
24.5
74.7
Private
25.7
Fig 4.6-13 Percentage of colleges with or without Medical facility for employees
In welfare terms, majority of the colleges do not have any specific medical service either for the
teachers (Fig 4.6-13) or students (Fig 4.6-14) where they can go for medical checkup on some
reasonable low rates. The colleges sometimes manage this facility with any doctor who give this
subsidized facility in order to get benefit of economies of scale.
71.7
Public
28.3
70.3
Private
20.7
Fig 4.6-14 Percentage of colleges with or without Medical facility for students
As far as public sector and group private sector colleges are concerned there is a strict monitoring
system of attendance. In some private group college it is even automated whereas in public sector
0 Public
between 25% and 50% of students
8.5 Private
20.8
between 10% and 25% of students
17.1
79.2
< 10% of students
74.4
Fig 4.6-15 Percentage of colleges with varying Absentee rate (Graduate Level)
At post graduate level, less than 10% of the students remain absent in 61.8 % of private colleges
and 75% of the public sector colleges (Fig 4.6-16). Non group private colleges usually relax
students in terms of attendance and they may have under reported. Hence, collectively the private
sector showing less amount of absenteeism as we can see in public sector colleges. The
absenteeism is lower in public colleges relative to the private sector college.
Fig 4.6-16 Percentage of colleges with varying Absentee rate (Post-Graduate Level)
4.6.6. Unsustainability
Excessive burden without appropriate capacity building in line with any long term strategy causes
unsustainability. In the absence of any long term strategy for affiliation, affiliating universities are
unable to sustain the burden of affiliated colleges given their limited resource capacity. The most
relevant case is of controller office whose primary responsibility is to conduct examination. Such
burden give birth delays in results, poor management of examination centers etc. Same is the case
of affiliation teams whose dual tasking of affiliation and later quality check in terms of inspection
cannot be efficient and effective.
4.7. Governance
4.7.1. Dual Control
Both public and private colleges are under the dual control of both affiliating university as well as
provincial government’s respective directorates of colleges. For academic purposes, colleges are
bound to follow the instructions of affiliating university and at the same time they must have to
meet the administrative and resource conditions/requirements set by the affiliation criteria that can
be verified and checked by the affiliation teams at any time. Respective directorates of colleges
have also administrative control over the colleges for their services.
Other 18.8
Annual 14.0
77.4
62.1
37.9
22.6
Private Public
100
64.7
35.3
Private Public
Other 19.5
9.1
Once a month 22
72.7
79.2
52.3
47.7
20.8
Private Public
Private Public
27.3 27.3
19.5 18.2 18.2
9.1 7.3
4.9 4.9
Fig 4.7-7 Method of decision making of Parents Teaches Council in colleges (%)
Private Public
Fig 4.7-8 % of Colleges perceiving the existence of QEC for Affiliated Colleges in University.
whims of the Vice Chancellor. Allegedly, this perception is being more for new universities. They
do visit colleges but in a number of cases relaxation is usually granted. For instance, in case of
governing council, it is just being taken as documentary requirement. Affiliation teams do not even
bother to meet members of governing council and analyze their role in the matters of colleges.
Sometimes, affiliation is even given while the registration process (partakes to the provincial
higher education department) is under process due to the provincial government administrative
delay. Sometimes, affiliation is given with this condition that questionable deficiencies should be
fulfilled in some specified time limit.
Private Public
Fig 4.7-9 Percentage of Colleges having visits of university for Quality Check
One reason behind relaxation is also the competition among universities for more and more
affiliation. Usually, a representative of Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) is included in the
affiliation team but more or less his/her way of working is general and not so much technical.
32.7
27.5
Private Public
Fig 4.7-10 Experience of Colleges (%) about the implementation of Quality Check/Monitoring
Reports
The biggest source of concern for colleges is the long delay of affiliation teams in visiting their
colleges for the verification of credentials of colleges. Old affiliating university team’s attitude is
often reported to be too ‘harsh and insulting’. This is also one of the reasons of colleges to move
for new universities for affiliation. But some representatives of private colleges who are relatively
established in education market are of the view that old universities’ affiliation teams are ‘strict
and firm’ rather than ‘harsh and insulting’. Moreover, it is said that they deserve to be strict and
firm as they are still much ahead in their operations relative to that of new universities.
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In Post affiliation mechanism, quality checks is again being done by the affiliation teams. Often
the affiliation teams are too much busy or overburdened in new affiliation that they seldom visit
affiliated colleges for quality check except where explicit application of irregularity is filed to
university administration. Moreover, the limited quality check visits by affiliation team are limited
to private sector colleges.
Practically, there are very few cases of de-affiliation against non-observance of quality assurance
measures. There has been no regular monitoring of affiliated colleges due to the non-existence of
any directorate or QEC specifically for affiliated colleges in universities. As far as the general
perception in private colleges, universities are interested in getting more and more registration
fund, student fund and Lump sum affiliation fund against the enrolled students in affiliated
colleges. In other words, universities themselves want to gather more and more financial funds
without being conscious about quality check.
Having said that it is a fact that group private colleges are very well managed in terms of quality
checking. In group private colleges, their own central quality checking teams visit all the college
franchises and directly report to the central administration. This quality assurance ranges from
student feedback about teacher to the cleanliness in college. Such Quality assurance mechanism is
non-existent both in private non-group colleges and in public sector colleges.
Summing up, universities are conscious when they are in process of furnishing affiliation and even
this mechanism is not free of various slippages and relaxations in rules and regulations. Hence,
quality assurance compromised up to certain extent in the very early stage. After the affiliation is
given then there is no systematic process of affiliating universities to check the quality of colleges
on regular basis. Hence, practically affiliated colleges are non-accountable to affiliating university
except financial dues and fees. Public sector colleges are accountable to their respective
directorates of education for quality education but again there is no systematic process. The quality
checking is primarily based upon the reporting of clerks sitting in those colleges and random visits
of Directors (or representative) of the colleges. Private colleges (Non-group) have no regular or
sustained quality assurance mechanism in place but Private colleges (group) do have their own
satisfactory quality assurance mechanism.
4.8. Financial Autonomy
The private sector colleges are much more autonomous in terms of disposing of their assets of
colleges.
Private Public
In public sector the decision of fee setting is totally centralized which come from the government
department.
2%
98%
3%
16%
81%
The governing body in private colleges are authorized the most and independent in making
decisions about the setting of fees followed by prinicipal.
50.6 Private
46.0
Public
35.8 34
30.2
3.4
0.0 0
For ad hoc faculty, public sector colleges’ decision is mostly dependent upon government,
principal and subject specialist whereas for private sector decision it is dependent upon the
principal and governing body.
The same higher trend of more fees in private sector is being observed in BS program as well
(Table 4-9).
4 Years BS Degree
Arts Science Commerce
Max Min Mean Max Min Mean Max Min Mean
Public Colleges 22050 3134 13760 22050 13920 17365 17850 13920 15885
Private Colleges 81500 22500 51266 98700 77000 87850 22000 15000 17500
At masters’ level, the fee hike can be observed at private sector colleges as compared to public
sector colleges. This difference in fee is due to the obvious reason of subsidized education in public
sector.
Masters
Arts Science Commerce
Max Min Mean Max Min Mean Max Min Mean
Public 19475 4124 10694 21475 9350 15791 13580 11170 12375
Colleges
Private 100000 25850 61083 87500 45850 62590 76500 34000 57362
Colleges
Details about Revenue is given in Table 4-11 and expenditures in Table 4-12. The biggest source
of revenue for private colleges come from the student’s fee and other student charges categories.
Both type of colleges is receiving international and domestic donations. In Public colleges, the
In Table 4-12, various expenses heads like salary, education material, maintenance expenses,
utility expenses, internal exam, science labs etc. The biggest share of expenses is of salaries in
both types. Private colleges’ expenses regarding library is much less as compared to the public
colleges.
92.0
84.9
15.1
8.0
Private Public
71.8 Yes No
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28.2
Private Public
Fig 4.8-6 Percentage of Colleges with or without Audit
Private Public
Fig 4.8-7
Mostly the respondents are of the view that 40% or 60% of their students reamin unemployed. In
the view of most colleges almost 10% of their graduates are underemployed. Majority of both
public (60%) and private colleges (60%) perceive that 30% of their passed out graduates are
employed. On average, as per public college view, 64% opined that time to get job is one year
whereas on private college side there is mixed trend where 29.6% assumes that six months are
required and 28.3% opined that 10 months are needed to get job.
This study is a great opportunity to understand the working of affiliated colleges which have
extensively expanded and still this trend is progressing. The outcome of the study would be helpful
to analyze those aspects which we cannot observe by secondary or institutional sources of data.
There is huge infrastructure related inequality in colleges. Training of teachers either on
andragogical techniques or refresher for course contents is very limited. There are huge concerns
regarding the governance of affiliated colleges where in private sector the governing bodies is no
more than a mere formality to be fulfilled having no role in decision making. On the other side,
public colleges have too little autonomy. There is absence of any Quality Assurance Mechanisms
in affiliated colleges as well as in affiliating universities (specifically working for affiliated
colleges).
The following suggestions and recommendations have been formulated in the light of results which
we have described explicitly in the previous section, and opinions and perceptions we gather from
Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). It is pertinent to mention
here that FGDs and KIIs have helped a lot in the interpretation of results and policy formulation.
Governance reforms at the level of University are needed to strengthen the system and quality of
service for the affiliated colleges. Reforms should overall aim towards the establishment of
systematic regulation which makes the affiliated colleges accountable as well as guide them
towards improvement. Decentralization is the need of the hour owing to the extensive expansion
in affiliation and geographic long distances between the peripheries (affiliated colleges) and the
center (affiliating university).
Recommendation # 1
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Recommendation # 2
Regional Offices should be established with trained staff and necessary infrastructural facilities
for the efficient monitoring of affiliated colleges and to solve their issues.
Recommendation # 3
Recommendation # 4
Good Governance requires evidence-based policy making. Policy making depends upon the
availability of timely and relevant data. All Provincial governments or provincial higher education
departments must work for a systematic and standardized dataset across provinces.
Recommendation # 5
18
A case of college mergers in Norway is discussed in Appendix
19
A case of Claremont University Consortium is discussed in Appendix
| CONCLUSION AND POLICY SUGGESTIONS 76
some indication about these facts empirically, we would be in a position to steer university
affiliation expansion (Response-to-Market) as well as their own on-campus capacity. This survey
would be carried over by QEC in Directorate
Recommendation # 6
Centralized paper marking system should be encouraged. In which paper checkers are invited to a
central place where their monitoring is quite easy by the external examiners. Result timeliness
would be improved in this way. The remuneration on paper checking should be increased in order
to increase the opportunity cost of teaching in evening coaching academies. So that teachers mark
papers more attentively. This process/activity would be seen by the exam section of Directorate of
Affiliation
Recommendation # 7
Recommendation # 8
A system of grants and aids should be given to the well performing affiliated colleges. This would
work as an incentive precedent for relatively low performing colleges. On academic side, access
to e-libraries, journals, teacher refresher courses regarding curriculum contents, libraries etc. can
be provided. Greater financial autonomy be given to the affiliated colleges so that they can gather
resources for themselves like establishing links with local philanthropists.
Recommendation # 9
Special funds be allocated by the government for the establishment of private colleges and industry
linkages. It may involve teacher trainings, visits of faculty to different firms, industry etc.,
internships, dialogue forums (where the industry representatives at least tell the college
representatives about what their graduates are lacking).
Trainings must be based upon course-content refresher trainings with appropriate study materials.
Currently, the horizon of training is limited to just andragogy which should be expanded with a
priority upon Curriculum Based Trainings followed by Profession Enhancement Trainings, Lab
base Trainings., Performance Assessment Training, Project Design Base Trainings, Financial
Management Trainings, Hostel Management Trainings, Security base Trainings.
| References 79
Appendix
| Appendix 80
Table A.4 : Number of Affiliated Colleges, Province wise
| Appendix 81
Merger of State (“University) Colleges in Norway in 199420
Higher education in Norway comprises four main types of institutions namely: universities, specialized
university institutions, university colleges, and art academies. A key difference between a university and a
university college is that a university offers at least four doctorate programs. University colleges also focus
primarily on bachelor degree courses that have a strong professional orientation such as education,
engineering, nursing etc and most do not have a research focus. Research, if any, are typically of a project
nature between the college and local or regional firms.
In the first stage, a set of organizational changes were undertaken to achieve the various goals. First, the
number of colleges was reduced to one fourth. Next, the internal organization of each of the new university
colleges was decided by forming faculties and departments as well as by the establishment of new
administrative structures. Finally, a university-like management system was introduced. It should be
highlighted that a key issue, during this phase, was to come to an agreement on which institutions were to
be merged within the various regions. The regional boards were the driving force in this process and were
clearly supportive of the idea. Not unexpectedly, the various colleges were less enthusiastic, but accepted
somewhat reluctantly that this reform had to pull through. Still, some colleges worked actively to avoid the
amalgamation for various reasons: some argued that the distance to the administrative centre of the new
university college would be too far, while others feared that their ambitions to be granted university status
would be effectively curtailed. Although the Ministry directed the merger processes, flexibility was also
allowed during negotiations between the regional boards and their affiliated colleges for local adjustments.
In the second stage, the individual colleges were then responsible for implementing the measures necessary
to fulfill the academic, administrative and economic objectives of the reform.
20
Source: Thematic Review of Higher Education, OECD; The Merger of Non-University Colleges in Norway, Kyvik
| Appendix 82
The Claremont University Consortium21
The Claremont University Consortium (CUC) is a free-standing educational support institution of The
Claremont Colleges (TCC). Its responsibilities include providing support services to the students and
institutions in areas such as campus security, financial and human resource services etc. The Consortium
is also responsible for group planning and holds lands for future expansion of the group.
There are seven educational institutions constituting the Claremont Colleges. Five are undergraduate
colleges offering a liberal arts education including Pomona College and Harvey Mudd College; and the
remaining two are graduate institutions. The Claremont Colleges enroll more than 6,300 full-time
students. The combined faculty consists of nearly 700 Professors, with approximately 1,600 staff.
Presently, more than 2,000 courses are offered to students attending the colleges.
The Consortium however, helps to bring together large or expensive facilities and programs to be shared
amongst the various Colleges. This not only results in cost savings, but also enables “the whole to be
greater than the sum of the parts.” For example, there are various shared academic departments and
programs such as the Intercollegiate Women's Studies Center and the European Union Center of
California. The shared facilities include the Colleges‟ libraries, the Student Services Center, dining and
sports facilities.
The Colleges also coordinate budgets and course schedules to allow for cross-registration of courses -
opening up more options and an extensive array of program offerings to their students typically found
in large comprehensive universities. Each year, students take roughly 6,000 courses (about 16 % of the
total courses offered) at a campus other than their home campus. Cross-registration is also possible in
the consortium. In addition, three of the Claremont Colleges pooled their resources to create the Joint
Science Department where students share and utilize various laboratories including an 86-acre natural
area for the conduct of their research and experiments.
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Source: http://www.cuc.claremont.edu
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HEC List Anomalies
The Following is an example of mistake of double entry of Quaid e Awam University and its
affilited colleges.
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The Following is an example of possible doubling counting of affiliated colleges for their affiliated
programs in different universities. It further becomes dubious because of incomplete addresses of
colleges as shown in Figure 4.
Figure A-3: Snapshot of Page No. 53 of Affiliated Colleges List by HEC (Punjab University Affiliated
Colleges)
Figure A-4: Snapshot of Page No. 4 of Affiliated Colleges List by HEC (Quaid I Azam University Affiliated
Colleges)
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