Abstract
To ensure a better world, for the coming generation, sustainable development agenda was set in 2015 to 2030 for
world community. The agenda need countries to make a national framework and interconnect with the major
stakeholders, being higher education, universities have to play important role for implementation of sustainable
development. The article describes the discussion by analyzing the document of the government of Pakistan, and
co-relate with the theory of endogenous growth. It is also evaluated government intension of policy towards
universities engagement for creating an enabling environment for core competiveness for the student to develop
and precisely the learning outcome vis-à-vis, the higher education students’ perception of the knowledge,
awareness and learning outcome and practices. For this, article uses the interactive research approach by
conducting survey from the universities of multi-disciplinary mostly social sciences, using an interactive research
approach, in order to ascertain and understand tension of the student, state of awareness, knowledge and
pertaining of sustainable development. At the end it has been analyzed and discussed in the context of intension
and tensions on the concept of and themes of the sustainable development and co-relating with producing the
human capital in knowledge economy.
Noor Fatima, Muhammad Imran Ashraf,, Kokab-Al-Saba. (2021) Sustainable Development Learning in Higher Education Institutions: Intensions and Tensions in Pakistan, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume-58, Issue-1.
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