Annual Report 2005-06 - Higher Education Commission
Annual Report 2005-06 - Higher Education Commission
Annual Report 2005-06 - Higher Education Commission
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<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
<strong>2005</strong>-<strong>06</strong><br />
Future Portal Services<br />
All public-oriented services being offered by HEC through web portal to be made online and<br />
need to participate as a member of all the offered services - all with a single login<br />
Application tracking, scrutiny and recruitment process of applicants for university faculty<br />
positions<br />
Online availability of HEC Publications and Online Applications for Patent Filing,<br />
Scholarships, Approved PhD Supervisors, Research Grants, Digital library access<br />
registration<br />
Scholarship-MIS, Scholarship Projects Management and Tracking System<br />
Online Subscription (For Website and HEC Monthly Magazine)<br />
National Research Programme for Universities Project (NRPU)<br />
Pakistan Student Association (PSA)<br />
Advanced Search Engine<br />
HEC Book House for Monograph and Textbook Writing Scheme<br />
Job Management and Tracking System<br />
Award List of Pakistan Organization for Collaborative Research (POCR)<br />
Budgeting, Statistic inferencing, and Monitoring of <strong>Higher</strong> Institutions Provide<br />
decentralized facility of Web Portal Contents Management to <strong>Commission</strong>/institutions<br />
To enhance HEC web portal to Pakistan educational web portal where information of all<br />
institutions and their offered services will be centrally available/linked<br />
Pakistan <strong>Education</strong> and Research Network (PERN)<br />
Pakistan <strong>Education</strong> and Research Network (PERN) is a part of the overall vision and amongst the<br />
objectives of IT Action Plan that was launched by Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman as Minister of Science<br />
and Technology, Government of Pakistan in August 2002. The project was financed by the<br />
Government of Pakistan in cooperation with PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited)<br />
Research and Development funds. The network was designed, operated, and maintained by NTC<br />
(National Telecommunication Corporation) and it is now managed by <strong>Higher</strong> <strong>Education</strong><br />
<strong>Commission</strong>. The project was aimed towards establishing an integral part of the overall education<br />
system of the country and was designed to interlink all public/private sector chartered<br />
universities/degree awarding institutes registered with <strong>Higher</strong> <strong>Education</strong> <strong>Commission</strong>.<br />
The network design of PERN comprises of three Point of Presence PoP(s)/nodal points i.e.<br />
Islamabad, Lahore & Karachi. <strong>Education</strong>al institutions were initially connected to their respective<br />
PoP(s) at 128Kbps Intranet/Internet bandwidth either through Optical Fiber, DRS or DXX etc.<br />
Three PoP(s) were interconnected on 2x2 Mbps through existing National Fiber System. At the<br />
time of its deployment, 8Mbps Internet bandwidth was acquired and terminated 2Mbps at<br />
Islamabad & Lahore each PoP(s) and the rest 4Mbps Internet bandwidth at Karachi PoP.<br />
PoP Wise Bandwidth and Nodes/Last mile Distribution of Universities<br />
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