Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Owais stresses need for quality education

PESHAWAR: NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani Tuesday urged the heads of universities and other institutions to adopt policies and approaches for ensuring a minimum level of quality education.

He was presiding over a meeting of the vice-chancellors of all the public sector universities. Besides discussing several other issues, the meeting reviewed the existing procedures relating to grant of affiliation by universities to different subordinate institutions.

The governor said that huge resources were being spent on education and achievement of the desired standards of quality of knowledge was the best way to achieve the objective of their judicious utilisation.

The meeting also formed two committees comprising vice-chancellors of different universities to formulate necessary proposals within a week. The conference deliberated in detail on various aspects of the process of granting affiliations by universities to both public and private sector education institutions.

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