The Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) Abdul Wali Khan
University Mardan (AWKUM) arranged a seminar on “Uplifting the Quality of Higher
Education through Innovative Strategies” on December 19, 2019. Prof.
Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad (EX Vice Chancellor), University
of Science and Technology Abbottabad was the keynote speaker. The Director QEC,
Prof. Dr. Waheed Murad, welcomed the honorable guests and participants in his
remarks on quality education. A large number of
faculty and members of Program Teams and Assessment Teams (PT/AT) of different
departments participated in the session.
“The inception of knowledge driven economies provided basis
for the establishment of Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan in 2002.
HEC reformed the higher education system based on the world’s leading US higher
education. The aim of the reformed system was to improve quality at par with
the developed world. During the session, the
speaker highlighted the innovative but simple
strategies for the uplifting of quality of higher education at par with the developed
world.
Addressing to the closing ceremony, the chief guest Prof.
Dr. Muhammad Khurshid Khan (Vice Chancellor AWKUM) highly appreciated the
efforts of QEC for organizing such an important seminar for faculty members. He
said that conducting such seminars will create awareness about the need of
quality education in the universities.
In the end Prof. Dr. Aurangzeb Khan (Dean Faculty of
Physical & Numerical Sciences) presented a vote of thanks to the guests and
participants.
