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Pakistan Task Force on Higher Education envisions Pakistani institutions to be world class seats of learning and advancement of knowledge, in order to create a modern, progressive, tolerant, and prosperous society that values the dignity of labour, craftsmanship, spirit of inquiry, critical thinking, and public duty. The prerequisite for materializing this vision, a revitalized research culture is required at higher education institutions in Pakistan which would work as a knowledge vehicle to guarantee nation‟s multidimensional success in all walks of life. Although research is a compulsory component of many higher education degree programmes in Pakistan, the findings of interview based study, conducted on 60 teachers and 80 students of four public and private sectors degree awarding institutions in Lahore, manifest, that it could not be exploited to the maximum because of the barriers like lack of initiative from the teachers and students as they are engaged in research under compulsion, the often repeated topics for research to avoid effort and exercise of inquiry skills, and scarcity of reference material and resources. Hence, the study recommends that in order to concretize the HEC vision and MDGs in true spirit, there should be more moral and material support from the HEC and concerned administration and importance of research should be properly propagated in circles of learning so that a knowledge sharing culture may be promoted, and the teachers‟ and students‟ inquiry skills should be polished so that we, as a nation, may develop creative competence to meet the challenges of the new millennium.

Mubasher Nadeem. (2011) Re-searching Research Culture at Higher Education, Journal of Research and Reflections in Education, Volume 5, Issue 1.
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