| Abstrakt: |
The primary objective of this article is to find out the possible issues and problems in the Ph.D. degree programmes in Pakistan. It also highlights the importance of higher education with special reference to the Ph.D. degree in English in this country. The reasons given normally for the Ph.D. degree (English) ineffectiveness are the lack of competent faculty members, inadequately equipped libraries, a shortage in the state of the art language labs, insufficient financial support for the given research, unnecessary delays in granting theses, a sense of narrow-mindedness among the language programme supervisors, a lack of the foreign subject specialists, excessive emphasis on the theoretical works, inadequate availability of full time internet access, insufficient collaboration with the foreign universities, and disharmony with overall national needs and requirements. The respondents' agreements with these problems as noted in the survey questionnaire used in this study is quite high than the disagreement ratio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
