text: KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday expressed annoyance at the lawyer of Sindh Higher Education Commission (Sindh HEC) over his absence in the hearing against the establishment of Sindh HEC.
  The association said the previous negotiations with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) bore no fruit.
  While many issues are pending with the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) and the Council of Common Interests (CCI), determining a new constitutional role for the Higher Education Commission (HEC) remains a test case in this regard.
  With the healthcare-worker-to-population ratio in Tanzania far below the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, [4] and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare [5] reporting a workforce crisis in Tanzania in 2008, [6] having limited or no processes or supportive mechanisms to help assist Tanzanian clinicians address ethical problems and concerns, impacts the sustainability of the workforce, as well as satisfaction with care delivery, as evidenced from research on the value of HECs' and ethics consultations.
  Do Tanzanian hospitals need healthcare ethics committees? Report on the 2014 Dartmouth/Penn Research Ethics Training and Program Development for Tanzania (DPRET) workshop
  LAHORE -- Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Prof Dr Tariq Banuri says the commission would approach the new government to give autonomy to all public sector universities of the country with additional resources to compete with the top educational institutions of the world.
  It was the first public event at Lahore where the leadership of Federal and Punjab HECs gathered and vowed to undertake collaborative efforts for meeting challenges in higher education sector.