Measuring the endeavors’ Impact of Quality Enhancement Cell on Quality of Higher Education system in Pakistan. A case of Private and Public Universities in Pakistan

In the area of knowledge and advancement of higher education system, the Pakistani universities were facing the globalize competitiveness and compatibility challenging gapes in the field of higher education system. To lessen these gapes, the initiative was taken in 2006-07 from the Public Sector universities and Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan established the Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) in 2006. The aim of QEC was to monitor and evaluate the internal quality assurance process of learning, teaching and academia of the universities, with the complex focus on the standard of academic education to fill the gaps among the fundamental and the good governess of quality education in all over the universities. The main objective of conducting this research study was to measure the impact of efforts of QEC on the quality of higher education system of public and private universities in Pakistan. A qualitative research approach has been applied in this study. Data was collected via secondary sources such as published material and authorized electronic media in Pakistan. Literature review and observations are showing that the QEC is playing the dynamic role in the evolution and monitoring process of the higher education system in the country. It is concluded that the establishment of QEC department proved that the steps taken by HEC were good initiative to grow the modern and globalized education standards around the Pakistan. It is recommended that HEC should try to help in monitoring and analyzing the primary and secondary level of education standards across Pakistan and also give guidelines to establish the QEC at primary and secondary level, in the result tertiary level education institutions may be able to get quality intake in their institutions, and finally overall educational quality can be able to compete modern globalize education standards.