Islamabad, October 08, 2018 (PPI-OT): Dr. Tariq Banuri, Chairman, Higher Education Commission (HEC) will go live and communicate with students and other higher education stakeholders on monthly basis through HEC web-based television channel, Higher Education EduTV, from October 18, 2018.
The basic objective of the EduTV is to address the critical need for improving communication with the stakeholders and creating awareness about the national higher education standards, quality assurance policies and procedures, financial management, governance and regulatory arrangement.
The Higher Education EduTV has been operational since March, 2017. The EduTV was launched with an aim to uplift the standard of higher education culture and offer education counselling services to citizens of Pakistan. Following the success of EduTV online sessions, Dr. Banuri has decided to communicate with pertinent audiences through the TV. The programme will be on aired on regular schedules with live interaction via social media platform.
The EduTV provides a platform to students, faculty and researchers of partner media and mass communication departments of Pakistani universities to take full advantage by using their writing, directing, screening, editing and relevant skills to develop diverse contents around higher education activities. It has been broadcasting live web-based programmes on different topics in collaboration with media and mass communication departments of Pakistani universities.
A few of the awareness and counselling services sessions includes Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme, Scholarship Guide, Degree Attestation System, Plagiarism Policy, Universities Inside, Professor Online, Achievements in HEI’s, National Research Programme for Universities, and Pakistan Qualification Register etc. The channel can be browsed with URL http://edutv.hec.gov.pk. The audience can also connect via social media links to ask their queries in live broadcast session through connected Twitter and Facebook accounts of the channel.
The channel is also providing a TV platform to media and mass communication departments at universities by successfully integrating the universities studios with video conferencing facility. Since these universities have built-in production capabilities that include studios, script writers, producers, directors and technicians, they will not only help showcase the talent of media and mass communication students and faculty but will also lead to developing contents for the TV channel.
The success has given opportunities to universities to develop collaborative programmes with other universities regardless of geographical locations. The Higher Education EduTV has recently integrated with Virtual University studio to on-air its programmes through satellite.
For more information, contact:
Director (Media)
Higher Education Commission, Pakistan (HEC)
Sector H-9, Islamabad
Tel: +92-51-90402404, +92-51-90402412
Email: aikram@hec.gov.pk
Website: www.hec.gov.pk