Higher Education Commission Chairman Professor Dr Atta-ur-Rehman said on Sunday that 256 Pakistani teachers settled abroad have been called back and efforts were underway to bring more teachers back to raise the quality of higher education in the country. "We have to develop our human resources and produce highly educated and skilled manpower to run the different sectors of economy," he said while addressing at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Jamiat Delhi Siddiqui Community Co-operative Housing Society at Gulshan-e-Myamar.
Dr Atta said the Pakistani students and researchers are being sent on scholarships to China, Germany, Austria and Netherlands that would increase the number of highly educated people in Pakistan. "
It has been planned to produce 1500 Ph.D holders every year in the country while in next few years about 15 to 20 thousand students would be sent abroad for Ph. D," he told. HEC chairman said that Pakistan was the only country in the world where a digital library consisting of 17,000 scientific journals has been established.
He said that presence of a Pakistani satellite in the space has benefited in promoting the education as two TV channels were operating specifically for education purpose while there was capacity of launching more such channels.
Professor Atta lamented that the past governments in the country did not make serious efforts in education sector with the result that a class system of peculiar nature developed at the school and college level.
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