In March, Tariq Banuri was removed as the chairman of HEC by the Federal Government, a move that is being challenged in the courts.  Dr. Tariq Banuri joins us on The Pakistan Experience to discuss why he was removed by the Government as the Chairman of HEC, exposes the corruption within the HEC, and discusses his philosophy of Education, and his vision for the HEC.  How should Research grants be awarded?  Do HEC rankings make any sene?  Why do we need the HEC to verify our degrees?  What are his thoughts on the SNC?  Should HEC have a sexual harassment mechanism for Universities?  Join us for all this and more on this week's episode of The Pakistan Experience.  HEC Sexual Harassment policy: https://www.hec.gov.pk/english/services/Documents/SEXUALHARASSMENT-POLICY.pdf  Tariq Javed Banuri is a Pakistani academic, development economist, environmentalist, climate scientist, educationalist, human rights advocate, and author who holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and who is the fourth and current Chairperson of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), a statutorily established regulatory agency whose mandate is to improve and promote higher education and research & development (R&D) within Pakistan.   Chapters: 0:00 Why was he removed as the chairman of the HEC? 8:00 Corruption in the the HEC 17:25 Research Grants 22:10 Using NAB against the Chairman of the HEC 27:50 The vision for Research and Research Programs 38:00 Why do we not see great research coming out of Pakistan? 43:10 Are most research journals in Pakistan fraudulent? 51:30 Digitizing archives in Pakistan 57:00 Fixing Higher Education in Pakistan 1:10:10 HEC Rankings 1:18:20 People being jobless after M.Phil 1:33:20 Government opening Universities just to score points 1:35:30 HEC's verification of degrees 1:43:00 PECs 1:48:00 Government spending in education is very low 1:52:00 Ed Tech 1:55:00 Single National Curriculum 1:57:00 Adil Najam 1:58:30 Governance structure of Universities 2:01:40 Mechanism for Sexual Harassment     Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperience  And Please stay in touch: https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1 https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperience https://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperience   The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. He can be found on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tinder.     https://www.facebook.com/Shehzadghias/ https://twitter.com/shehzad89