A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and University of Health Science on an application, challenging collection of Rs1,18,000 from students under the head of miscellaneous expenses by the private medical colleges.
With private universities emerging in the mid-1980s, Pakistan is a unique example of a system that dropped its dependence on public funding and universities were encouraged to generate their own funds. Country Director British Council Pakistan Peter Upton put forward an important question at the dialogue: is higher education a private commodity, given the decline in state funding?
Girls clinched the top three positions in the annual BA/BSc exams for 2013, while private colleges outperformed government colleges, according to results announced by the Punjab University on Wednesday.