STOP HEC DEVOLUTION

3. All HEC research functions would seize to exist. Ongoing 1,000 research projects on the most important issues of importance to Pakistan would STOP.

4. The Foreign scholarship program providing scholarships to nearly 5,000 scholars in 28 countries would be MOVED to the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination. There is even a suggestion to break up the scholarships and distribute existing scholars according to domicile!

5. Graduating PhD students from all over the world would have not entity to coordinate return and placement in local universities. Currently HEC tracks each foreign scholar individually, and runs a program providing one-year employment in any university of their choice, along with a start-up research grant.

6. Nearly 5,000 Indigenous Scholarship programs would be transferred to provinces in some manner yet to be determined. New desks in some ministries would perhaps be created to deal with financing and management of PhD scholarships

7. The Pakistan Education and Research Network providing high speed inter-connectivity between universities and to the Internet would stop.

8. The Digital Library Program would stop.

9. More than 1,000 scholars per year would be deprived the opportunity to travel abroad to present research papers.

10. All programs for linking research activities among Pakistani universities would seize.

11. All programs for improving pedagogical skills of teachers in universities would seize. Nearly 5,000 teachers have already benefitted from this program.

12. Management of ALL universities in the Federal Area would be transferred to a new Division of ICT.

13. Funding of higher education by the Federal Government by HEC would seize and all Provincial Universities would be funded through the existing NFC Award. Federal Universities would presumably be funded through the allocation to the new Division in ICT.

14. US$ 300 Million World Bank Loan to Government of Pakistan would be withdrawn.

15. USAID Plan for US$250 Million for supporting higher education sector would go back to the drawing board.

16. USAID Program for establishment of Offices of Financial Aid and Development in Universities would seize today.