HEC to close 19 illegal institute’s campuses

Lahore: Global Institute, Lahore is running multiple affiliated/franchised campuses; all of them are unapproved as well as illegal because no such approval has been pursued from any regulatory body.

As per the issued press release, Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) Director General (Accreditation) Ms Zia Batool said this during a briefing to Punjab Higher Education Commission senior management committee in a meeting on Tuesday.

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Zia Batool briefed the committee that according to the order given by its Act-2014, PHEC was establishing different specialized committees, consisting of well-known academicians, former vice-chancellors, as well as policy makers, for monitoring as well as evaluations of issues of quality and standards of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of the province.

“One such monitoring and assessment sub-committee visited Global Institute Lahore (GIL) on January 11th, 2017, on the complaints of degree issues as well as on the complaints of the statuses of its campuses.

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The Global Institute was found compromising on standards of quality as faculty, teaching learning environment, facilities for students, laboratories, library as well as the needed management structure were all far behind the minimum mandatory standards and criteria.”

The management of Global Institute Lahore informed the sub-committee that sub-campuses were being de-affiliated instantly but no evidence was presented.