STAFF REPORT PESH: PESHAWAR: Majority of the public sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are short of required faculty which has been affecting the academic activities.
According to sources, the administration of 13 of the total 19 public sector universities have failed to ensure the required strength of teachers according to the student-teacher ratio fixed by the HEC.
“The teaching staff in the remaining six universities is not on need basis rather there were surplus teachers putting burden on the universities budgets,” said an official of the HEC.
He mentioned that under the HEC criteria there should be one teacher for 20 students of science group and one teacher for 30 students of humanities group.