05-23-2008, 05:20 PM
<b>Mudy Ji :</b>
And now - TAN TARAA! TAN TARAA!! TAN TARAA!!! - The Lotaland Education Balance Sheet is even worse than Twirpistan's Economic Balance Sheet :
[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>HEC's number game</span></b>[/center]
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>During the last sixty years, the number of PhDs in Pakistan has risen from approximately 50 to 2000. The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan claims that this number will rise to 20,000 by 2015.</b> In order to produce the additional 18,000 PhDs, HEC has launched various local and foreign initiatives.
<b>If this PhD factory cranks out the new PhDs, it will definitely break all world records, but will it make any difference to the nature of scientific research in Pakistan? Will there be any use of these new PhDs? What will Pakistan be like in 2015 with all these PhDs? Where will they work?</b> <!--emo&
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->HEC decides that Pakistan needs more universities. A programme is launched to set up universities all over the country, even in places where there are not even enough schools. But the Chairman wants to show progress, activity. <b>The solution is easy : take down the boards of existing colleges, repaint them as such-and-such university, and you have universities all over the country. Then initiate a publicity orgy and claim that HEC has increased the number of universities in the country from 23 to 47. The number game may satisfy the egos of some, but to an objective observer, the future of science and higher education in Pakistan looks bleak because there is no backbone to this whole effort.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Cheers <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->