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    DIVERSIFICATION OF THE FINANCIALSOURCES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE SELF-FINANCE EDUCATION SCHEME (A Case Studyof the University of Peshawar)
    (Department of Economics, University of Peshawar. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 2005) Farzana Shaheen; Supervised by Dr. Sanaullah,
    Higher education is experiencing rapid and dramatic changes in Pakistan. The major problem of higher education is in terms of the match between the financial needs and available financial resources. Even though a substantial sum of public expenditure going to higher education there is a belief that the actual amounts allocated are low in relation to need. Apart from, remedying current inadequacy in funding levels, additional funding generally is essential in order for higher education to cope withlikely future expansion. The present study was designed to explore and evaluate the possibilitics of diversification of financial sources for higher education. It specially focuses onself-finance education scheme experienced as a source of additional funding at public universities in Pakistan. University of Peshawar was taken asa case study. For this purpose, from a total number of 17 departments that were running the master level programmes at self-finance basis, 10 sample institutes were randomly selected for the study. Randomly selected 160 respondents in these 10 sample institutes were interviewed for taking in questionnaire. Of these 160 respondents, 96 were sclected from open merit students and 64 were selected from self-finance students. For the collection of information, two different comprehensive questionnaires were developed, one addressing to the students and the other to the staff of the institutions concerned. Results show that the students’ enrollments are increasing rapidly at higher education, specifically ie market-oriented and professional disciplines. There was a 52% positive growth in enrollments on self-finance basis during two years considered in the study. It was found that the students of both the shifts are equally punctualin class assignments and the teachers are unbiased in marking and equally regular in taking classes towards all the students in both the shifts. The major problems of boarding, transportation, availability of classrooms and the use ofcomputer labs were particularly felt by the self-finance students. The respondents with a strong socio-economic background were equally found among open merit self finance students, during the study. The study generally concludes that the introduction of self-finance education scheme at public universities brought a positive effect on the enrollment of the students and proved a big source of fundingfor the public universities. But it was foundthat on one side the open merit students were paying only 3000-10000 rupees for a professional degrecg. Contrarily, the self-finance students were paying 20000-50000 rupecs for the same degrees. Whereas the socio-economic background of both kind ofstudents was generally the same. Based on the conclusion it was recommended that the fee structure of the university needs changes. Higher education should not be fully subsidized and an average fee structure is suggested in this respect for students of both the shifts. Provision of scholarship to top 10% and financial help to very poor students is also recommended. It was also recommended that the infrastructural facilities should be increased to the level of increased enrollments. level of increased enrollmen