Atta's resignation blow to education

The educationists have expressed their serious concern over the resignation of Prof Atta, saying that the government pressurised him to tender resignation by cutting and discontinuing the higher education budget. Prof Dr S Mazhaer-ul-Haq, former Professor at the University of Karachi and later as senior official at UNESCO, headquarters, Paris, said that the creation of Higher Education Commission in 2002 was a technocratic vision of the previous government at a time when the country was passing through development of various sectors of its economies. He said, “The government has forgotten the marvellous efforts of the HEC to boost up the higher education sector in the country under the leadership of Dr Atta.

 Since its establishment, the HEC has launched a number of projects including award of 2500 fellowships to young promising scientists for PhD level studies in foreign universities, establishment of digital library providing access to about 23,000 international journals and 35000 textbooks from 220 international publishers.