The Higher Education Commission (HEC) would confer Best University Teacher Awards 2011 upon 63 university faculty members. These 63 university teachers have been selected by Best Teacher Award Committee after comprehensive evaluation and scrutiny among the 153 nominations received from higher education institutions from all over the country.
The awards will be conferred at a special ceremony to be held at HEC Islamabad on August 21. Mian Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman Minister of State for Education, Training and Standards in Higher Education will be chief guest on the occasion. Best University Teachers Award Programme was initiated by HEC in 2004 to improve the quality of education along with enhancing external and internal efficiency of University education. The Programme provides monetary as well as self-esteemed incentives to teachers from universities and degree awarding institutions through awards and certificates.
Each year nominations for the awards are invited from the Public Sector and W category private universities and degree awarding institutions of Pakistan focusing on their contributions towards teaching, research and efforts for professional development. So far 349 awards have been conferred over a period of eight years under this programme. Commenting over the programme, Chairperson HEC Dr Javaid R Laghari said Programme aimed at improving the quality of education along with enhancing external and internal efficiency of university education. "It also envisages upgrading quality of research through staff development and provision of better facilities.