Higher Education! Isn't it a waste?

A few years ago, it was a trend of the young graduates applying for the scholarships and enrolling them to the foreign universities, more and more students appearing in the NTS - National Testing Service quizzes for different scholarships; most of them for foreign universities, and least of them strengthening the universities of the country.

I don't know what would be the future of those vacuumed in foreign countries, now as the funds to HEC - Higher Education Commission are no more available.

But a question I must ask, whether the returning folks from the foreign countries have the facilities of research, labs, and opportunities for grooming their work over here. NUST - National University of Science and Technology has acquired acres of land for campus in Islamabad, has offered number of scholarships to the students in foreign countries, but I don't think would have strengthened the laboratories and research tombs they are decorating these days.

I am the one who has witnessed the PC - 1 of the boundary wall for a 20,000 acres of Gomal University, and the laboratories & libraries of the university seems ghost houses. Hazara University is offering more than 65 degrees in different disciplines, but many of departments lacks basic necessities to proceed with practical work of under graduates.

I don't know what the hell would those Ph.D's do, when they'll back here, most of them expecting a massive salary packages in universities, not the research & development work they were expected for. Who would offer them same, when HEC is on it's knees!