Abstract
The study was conducted to analyze some of the issues of universities governance in Pakistan.
The objective of the study was threefold, first to investigate some policy considerations
regarding governance, second to analyze current practices and third to recommend some “best
practices” to the universities’ governance and to draw out some common themes and
directions, which are discussed in the Pakistani context in the final section of the paper. It
examined the challenges of governance in higher education and how universities were acting
in response to them. It addressed the rising role and participation of stakeholders in higher
education governance and emerging approaches of management in the governance of higher
education in Pakistan. The paper focused mainly on the governing body of the universities,
and its roles and relationships with other stakeholders. For the study major sources of data
were Institutional and government documents, policy papers and newspapers’ articles. To
analyze the information, content analysis was done. The results of the study showed that in
Pakistan the state is the key player in the governance of higher education.
Mahr Muhammad Saeed Akhtar, Tahira Kalsoom. (2012) Issues of Universities’ Governance in Pakistan , Journal of Elementary Education, Volume-22, Issue-2.
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