{"id":287,"date":"2016-09-23T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T08:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/?p=287"},"modified":"2016-09-23T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T08:03:32","slug":"hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"location\">ISLAMABAD:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has shut down 31 PhD and 26 MPhil programmes in a number of universities across the country for failing to meet the minimum quality criteria required by the higher education watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>HEC chairperson Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, in a press conference, on Wednesday stated that the education commission\u2019s Quality Assurance Agency swooped on institutes offering MS, MPhil and PhD programmes and restrained those found not meeting the quality yardstick.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tribune.com.pk\/story\/33085\/am-i-a-qualified-phd-if-i-paid-someone-else-to-write-my-thesis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Am I a qualified PhD if I paid someone else to write my thesis?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also stated that work was underway for amendments to the HEC ordinance to empower the commission to penalise varsities, and those who were violating the rules and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the recent HEC visits to various public and private sector universities to assess quality of their programmes, he said that a total of 293 PhD programmes and 57 MPhil programmes of 171 universities had been reviewed. He revealed that 31 PhD and 26 MPhil programmes of different universities have been closed due to lack of fulfilment of minimum quality standards.<\/p>\n<p>The chairperson said that HEC stopped further intake in 56 PhD and 10 MPhil programmes in various institutions for the same reason. \u201cDuring the review process, HEC teams primarily assessed whether or not the universities were following the Act under which they are operating, are their statutory bodies in place, if they are abiding by structural guidelines, and if they are following a proper criteria for affiliations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides, according to the report, minor deficiencies were found in 21 MPhil programmes and some in 195 PhD programmes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/968595\/brain-drain-177-mphil-phd-scholars-fail-to-complete-their-degrees\/\" target=\"_blank\">177 MPhil, PhD scholars fail to complete their degrees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PhD programmes were closed of Iqra National University Peshawar, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Bahauddin Zakaraiya University Multan, Beaconhouse National University Lahore, National Defence University Islamabad and others.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, as per the report, there were host of issues pertaining to governance in the varsities which included not holding selection boards, meeting of academic council, approval of admission policy etc from the statutory bodies etc.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in The Express Tribune,<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has shut down 31 PhD and 26 MPhil programmes in a number of universities across the country for failing to meet the minimum quality criteria required by the higher education watchdog. HEC chairperson Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, in a press conference, on Wednesday stated that the education commission\u2019s Quality Assurance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes - Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Daily mountain pass gilgit baltistan newspaper online news. Daily mountain pass gb is a leading online news website\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes - Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daily mountain pass gilgit baltistan newspaper online news. Daily mountain pass gb is a leading online news website\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dailymountain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-23T08:01:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-09-23T08:03:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hec.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@DailyMountainGB\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@DailyMountainGB\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Daily Mountain Pass Gilgit Baltistan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dailymountain\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyMountainGB\"],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/logodesign1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/logodesign1.jpg\",\"width\":1160,\"height\":200,\"caption\":\"Daily Mountain Pass Gilgit Baltistan\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/\",\"name\":\"Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website\",\"description\":\"News website of Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hec.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hec.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":350},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/\",\"name\":\"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes - Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-23T08:01:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-23T08:03:32+00:00\",\"description\":\"Daily mountain pass gilgit baltistan newspaper online news. Daily mountain pass gb is a leading online news website\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#webpage\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/9aa112db03188414d4dae78646d6c103\"},\"headline\":\"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-23T08:01:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-23T08:03:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#webpage\"},\"wordCount\":338,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hec.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Health - Education\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/9aa112db03188414d4dae78646d6c103\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23d861f6ec86b7cd732390aa30dd851c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23d861f6ec86b7cd732390aa30dd851c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes - Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website","description":"Daily mountain pass gilgit baltistan newspaper online news. Daily mountain pass gb is a leading online news website","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes - Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website","og_description":"Daily mountain pass gilgit baltistan newspaper online news. Daily mountain pass gb is a leading online news website","og_url":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/","og_site_name":"Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dailymountain\/","article_published_time":"2016-09-23T08:01:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-09-23T08:03:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hec.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@DailyMountainGB","twitter_site":"@DailyMountainGB","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#organization","name":"Daily Mountain Pass Gilgit Baltistan","url":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dailymountain\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyMountainGB"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#logo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/logodesign1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/logodesign1.jpg","width":1160,"height":200,"caption":"Daily Mountain Pass Gilgit Baltistan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#logo"}},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/","name":"Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website","description":"News website of Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hec.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hec.jpg","width":300,"height":350},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/","name":"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes - Daily Mountain Gilgit Baltistan News Website","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2016-09-23T08:01:21+00:00","dateModified":"2016-09-23T08:03:32+00:00","description":"Daily mountain pass gilgit baltistan newspaper online news. Daily mountain pass gb is a leading online news website","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes"}]},{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#webpage"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/9aa112db03188414d4dae78646d6c103"},"headline":"HEC shuts down 31 PhD, 26 MPhil programmes","datePublished":"2016-09-23T08:01:21+00:00","dateModified":"2016-09-23T08:03:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#webpage"},"wordCount":338,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/hec-shuts-down-31-phd-26-mphil-programmes\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hec.jpg","articleSection":["Health - Education"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/9aa112db03188414d4dae78646d6c103","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23d861f6ec86b7cd732390aa30dd851c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23d861f6ec86b7cd732390aa30dd851c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/dailymountaingb.com"],"url":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailymountaingb.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}