QUALITY ENHANCEMENT CELL

QEC office in Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari Karachi, Sindh established in January 2013, under the umbrella of Higher Education Commision, Pakistan. Its responsibility is ensure Qulity and Standard of teaching in various courss and teaching staff Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari Karachi, Sindh Pakistan. The issue of quality has been identified as the major issue confronting the higher education sector in the Medium Term Development Framework (MTDF). Therefore, to enhance the quality of output and efficiency of the higher education learning systems, a mechanism of establishment of QECs has been developed by the Quality Assurance Committee to improve the standards of quality of higher education in a systematic way with uniformity across country. In 2006-07 the Quality Enhancement Cells (QECs) have been established at ten public sector universities, where as in 2007-08 twenty more QECs were established in the public sector universities for improvement of their academic, teaching and learning standards. The QEC family is being extended to another fifteen public sector, fifteen private sector universities in 2009-10 and twenty four in public sector universities in 2010-11. BACKGROUND In recent years it has become an obligation that institutions of higher education demonstrate the effectiveness of their academic programs in providing high quality education that positively impacts the stakeholders. this has led the Higher Education Commission to develop methods for assessing the quality of academic programs. With the establishment of Quality Assurance Agency at Higher Education Commission it was decided in the NQAC meeting that Quality Enhancement Cells will be established at all universities to strengthen the internal quality assurance process with a special focus on quality of higher education to fill the gap between the prevailing and the desired status of quality education.

Functions
To ensure Quality and Standard of Degree Award Responsible to review the Quality of teaching and Learning
VISION
To contribute in Including the seeds of Knowledge and development to the Nation
MISSION
To improve the Technical Knowledge and Professional Skills of the New Generation
ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEC – NEEDS BASED SCHOLARSHIPS 2018
(For Students of Morning Programs only)

Applications on prescribed form are invited from financially deprived/ underprivileged but meritorious students of BBSUL for the award of HEC–Needs-Based Scholarships (HEC-NBS) for BS (4-year) and Pharm-D (5-year) degree programs. Interested students can download application form from the BBSUL website (http://bbsul.edu.pk/qec.php) or get its photocopy from the TUK shop. Duly filled-in application forms, endorsed by concerned HoD, complete with all requirements as mentioned in the instructions section of the form, and submitted with attested copies of the supporting documents must be hand-submitted in the office of the Director QEC latest by Friday, December 6, 2019.

Note:

1. Only the applicant can submit her/his form within the due date.

2. Nonsubmission of required documents and providing vague/false information or statements will lead to application rejection.





Dated: 25-11-2019
Dr. Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh
Focal Person ISAC HEC-NBS