Name:
Syeda Maira kazmi
Title
: Higher Educational system of
Pakistan
In the wake of
recent development across the globe, Pakistan has also been severely impacted
by the prevailing pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) from
microeconomics to small scale businesses every sector has been adversely
effected.
Educational
system is also unfortunately one of the most adversely affected sector in
Pakistan.
Pakistan
educational system has been axiomatically
exposed in the wake of this recent development from the online class
fiasco to unjustified University fees.
The masses of
Pakistan is now asking some poignant questions about our higher educational
system. Today our interview with the social entrepreneur educationist
Danial Kazmi principal partner
Prologic group. We seek to obtain some relevant answers and we shall expire to
extrapolate effective remedies to address the shortcomings of our higher
educational system.
Assalamu
Alaikum sir, how are you?
walaikum
assalam Alhamdulillah I am fine
Q1: What are your brief views about our higher educational system?
Ans: Pakistan comprises of a young population that is vibrant,
talented versatile, diverse, and enthusiastic.
However unfortunately
our higher educational system seems to be bureaucratic, traditional, and lacks
focus on research practical industry know-how and outdated curricula.
There is a lot of room for improvement.
Q2: Being someone who has studied in one of the top business school
in the world, how do you compare the top-ranking western universities
With that
Pakistani university?
Ans: one of the most striking differences between the two is our universities have too
little focus on research and students original academic writing. Moreover, our curriculum is outdated
it lacks the industry exposure and our
students predominantly graduate with bookish knowledge with little or no pertinent industry skills.
Q3: What are the biggest five
issues that need immediate addressing?
Ans:
1: lack of
academic research
2: out dates
curriculum
3:
expensive fees packages
4: lack of a
robust online educational system
5: student
development as per industrial needs.
Q4: based on your experience what are the problems you as an employer
observer in our the graduates you higher?
Ans: our graduates are very enthusiastic about doing well in a job.
However, our universities failed to
prepare them for their transaction for being a student to a professional. They
have sound theoretical knowledge but very limited industry exposure. Employers have to retrain them though expensive induction training programs for them to be able to perform their jobs which should be the task of universities.
Q5: What are your views about
online classes and virtual
educational system?
Ans: the future of the world is
tilted towards virtual systems the need
of physical presence and
traditional settings will be one day an
out dates concept. Our educational
system have badly failed in
catering our students online tuition
need.
Q6: In your view what caused
the online educational set up to
fail for the majority of the students?
Ans: our educational
institutions never really prepared
to shift the major tuition
process form traditional classrooms to virtual classes not only were
most of our students ill-prepared for
online tutions but our educational
institutions were also not
prepared with a sound online setup. This posits
a lack of vision on our educational
institutions part.
Q7: What needs to be done on an immediate basis?
Ans: our ministry of education
must bring in fresh talented blood to
transform our education ministry in
ordered to achieve the following
1: update of
curriculum in accordance with the industry needs.
2: a shift of
focus from purely theoretical knowledge
to practical hands-on know-how.
3: lucrative
funds for institutions to develop sound online setups as alternative system.
4: revaluation of student’s
fees to insure students from
depraved backgrounds are
provided with quality education
as well.
5: global
integration with westerns
universities should be made
compulsory for our institutions to improve
our research and quality if
education.
Q8: what do you mean by quality
education?
Ans: quality education
provides a student with not only updated
theoretical knowledge but also exposes the students to the necessary industry
knowledge to help them to only in
securing a job but also performing well
in it.
Quality education prepares a student for the real
world.
Q9: Are you satisfied with the measures taken by our
government and educational institutions during this pandemic?
Ans: although our government
and our educational institutions
have taken the necessary measures but they seem to be taken with ill
preparation. The semester students are
being charged cannot be justified especially when classes are being
conducted online and that too with
problematic online setup.
A lack of
preparation and policy are evident.
Q10: What are your suggestion
and advice to our students?
Ans: our students shouldn’t solely rely on the capacities and capabilities of our
educational institutions alone. Today we
are fortunate to live in the age of
information.
Student must
learn to find their direction set high
goals and strive to learn and excel.
Thank you for your time, sir.
Conclusion: in this interview not only
we learned the dilemmas of our higher
education systems but also discussed how the situation can be improved on the state level, institutional level and on
part of the students.
It was a
learning and enlightening process
that as help understand our educational
system its shortfalls and how it can be made better. I as a student
feel responsible and empowered to do my part.