Participants at the second roundtable conference on “Six years of 18th Constitutional Amendment: Equity and autonomy of universities”, demanded the implementation of the 18th Constitutional Amendment in education, especially in the higher education sector, and said that the autonomy of universities should be ensured, reports Pakistan Today. Read more...

By Nimi Hoffmann, Sioux McKenna and Temwa Moyo. A new piece of draft legislation could give South Africa’s higher education minister increased power over the country’s universities. More...

In the last decade, the country's tertiary education has seen many changes.
Universities have been given autonomy gradually over the years by the Ministry of Education and Training.
The Government's Decision 153 on University Regulations issued in 2003 said that universities have autonomy rights and responsibilities for planning, development, training programmes, science, technology, finance, international co-operation and personnel.
Moreover, the Law on Education and the government's other resolutions also encouraged universities to carry out autonomy. More...

By The Nation. It has been reported that the government was contemplating whether to give Vice Chancellors more autonomy to administer universities through the proposed new constitution. The idea seems to be to remove the political control and allow them to develop as independent institutions. Read more...