HEC, USAID launch scholarship management system to automate operations – Latest News – The Nation

ISLAMABAD – An IT-based Scholarship Administration System of the USAID-funded Benefit and Wants-based Scholarship Programme (MNBSP) was launched on the Increased Schooling Fee (HEC) on Thursday.
Government Director HEC Dr. Shaista Sohail, Adviser (Coordination) HEC Mr. Awais Ahmad, Director Common (Scholarships) HEC Ms. Aayesha Ikram and USAID Director Schooling on the US Embassy Ms. Anne Flaker together with different HEC and USAID officers attended the launching ceremony.
The Scholarship Administration System is a serious improvement when it comes to automation of the day-to-day key programmatic operations of MNBSP and its monitoring reporting system for information validity, transparency and accuracy. The implementation of this method can also be a key step in the direction of aiding HEC in strengthening the reporting mechanism of the most important undergraduate scholarship undertaking funded underneath Benazir Earnings Help Programme (BISP).
USAID has been supporting scholarships for financially deprived, meritorious college students for the final 17 years underneath MNBSP to help HEC.
Dr. Shaista Sohail thanked the Director USAID for launching the enlargement programme underneath MNBSP and acknowledged that legacy of HEC’s worthwhile partnership with USAID span over a few years.
“It’s by way of the help and funding of companions like USAID, college schooling for a lot of underprivileged college students turned accessible and supplied them a prospect to uplift themselves.
The funding in IT primarily based system will probably be encouraging for the colleges and HEC to undertake paradigms that leads in the direction of clear and sustainable system,” stated the Government Director.
On the event, Director Common Aayesha Ikram knowledgeable the USAID officers that 91 % of the USAID funding underneath the scholarship programme was diverted in the direction of the beneficiaries retaining operational funds in minimal value whereas 60 % of the scholarship awards got to the females.
Addressing the ceremony, Anne Flaker, stated, “USAID profoundly helps enhancing capacities of our companions to develop sustainable programs. We’re happy that the implementation of IT-based system will probably be used not only for the operations of the USAID scholarship programme, however in future, it is going to be utilised for different HEC scholarship programmes. The USAID can also be grateful to HEC for its dedication to the programme aims and taking modern steps which can function mannequin for others to observe, she expressed.