Azadar Hussain
Education & Training Manager (CAKCCIS)
On the one hand, the literacy rate in Pakistan is very low, and on the other hand, the performance of educational institutions has always been a question mark. There is a crisis of performance from school to university that we are facing. Modern technology and artificial intelligence have posed another challenge for these educational institutions because the speed with which technology is growing, our educational institutions are not changing at that speed. We are neither aware of the conditions and requirements of our time nor are we making any plans to meet them.
Today, the situation of government educational institutions is that there are a lot of resources, but the performance is very worrying. According to the data recently given by the Higher Education Commission in the Annual ORIC Self-Assessment Evaluation Report for the Financial Year 2024-25, there are seven universities whose were underperforming, five of those seven are government universities. Similarly, in the Y category, in which the ORIC score is 40-59, the number of government universities is 28. However, the good news is that there are five government universities in the W Category, which score above 80. However, it is a matter of concern that five out of the total 62 government universities have reached this level.
The situation of private educational institutions is no different. There are only two universities that have fallen in the W Category. While fifteen universities fall in the Y and the same in the X category (60-79). Only one university is performing below. 33 universities were included in this review.
Among these private universities, Superior University is at the 12th position overall with a score of 71, while it is at the fifth position in the X Category. This is noteworthy because the University of the Punjab was established in 1882, while its score is 55. Many universities that are more than a century old have gone down in this ranking. For example, both Kinnaird College for Women and Islamia College University, Peshawar were established in 1913, but their scores are 61 and 48.5 respectively. However, in my opinion, the real success of Superior University is not this score. In the last two years, Superior University has done something that is worthy of celebration, and that is its work on character building and moral leadership.
In these two years, Superior University has proven one thing that it has a great Will to Change. That is, the intention to change. Self-accountability is the first step, without self-accountability, nothing can be right. Superior University did self-accountability two years ago and understood its role in society and took a step accordingly. This was no small step, all the staff of the university were given character building training. Perhaps the real celebration is that Superior University has succeeded in these three steps so far. That is, self-accountability, the Will to change and resistance in this process. If Superior University continues to operate in this manner, it will certainly be a top-ranking university in Pakistan and in the world as well.
