Bahria university values education can produce good citizens.

Byline: Urooj Aijaz

The university's place as a paramount player in a global system increasingly driven by knowledge, information and ideas. We live in a time when knowledge is ever more vital to our societies and economies, in a world of rapidly circulating capital and people have revolutionary communication technologies. Knowledge is replacing other resources as the main driver of economic growth, and education becomes the foundation for individual prosperity and social mobility. Universities play an important role as leaders in teaching, learning and in research and technology.

In teaching activities, universities provide the professional training for high-level jobs, as well as the education necessary for the development of the personality and society needed to meet the challenges of sustainable development in a community, in raising public awareness, in developing new cultural values by training and socializing people of new social era bringing out economic, political, social and cultural transformation providing preconditions for informed decision-making, responsible behavior and consumer choice.

As universities are cast in increasingly intense competition for students, their cultural and civic role has become ever more important. Now, universities need to prove that they do more than just teach students to pass their degree courses so, creating a wealth of graduates with skills, leadership abilities along with the good social being is one of the most important contributions expected by the society from any university but as the times passes with so much emphasis on natural sciences, social sciences can sometimes appear to take a back seat instead of the fact that social sciences touch all our lives in so many different ways, and ought to be much more centre stage in terms of national policy making as it study the impact of change of migration, looking at issues of debt and poverty, trying to improve housing, developing new ways of supporting families who are facing multiple disadvantages and working with voluntary organizations and charities involved in delivering public services etc but nowadays edu

cation is only measured as an instrument of economic growth by neglecting the importance of developing such capacities. It misses the fact that we are all interpreters and ignores that something is not about 'facts' only but about understanding and meaning. Humanities and social and political sciences have much to offer in providing...

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