{"id":29518,"date":"2026-02-20T03:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=29518"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:36:14","slug":"pakistan-universities-to-add-new-subject-to-all-degree-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=29518","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Universities to Add New Subject to All Degree Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/HEC-Pakistan.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Higher Education Commission has directed all public and private universities to introduce a mandatory three-credit-hour course on Artificial Intelligence in every undergraduate and postgraduate degree program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its advisory, the commission stated that Artificial Intelligence now plays a central role in education, healthcare, the economy and governance. It said universities must equip students with a foundational understanding of AI, including its ethical dimensions, data privacy, transparency and societal impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commission allowed universities to offer the course as an elective, an interdisciplinary module, or an allied subject within the existing program structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It instructed institutions to cover core AI concepts, cross-disciplinary applications, and key ethical issues such as fairness and accountability, while permitting them to adapt the content to specific academic programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commission said universities will implement the requirement from the Fall 2026 academic session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/edunation\/scholarships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EduNation<\/a>&nbsp;to find scholarships from around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2026\/02\/19\/universities-to-add-new-subject-to-all-degree-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2026\/02\/19\/universities-to-add-new-subject-to-all-degree-programs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Commission has directed all public and private universities to introduce a mandatory three-credit-hour course on Artificial Intelligence in every undergraduate and postgraduate degree program. In its advisory, the commission stated that Artificial Intelligence now plays a central role in education, healthcare, the economy and governance. It said universities must equip students with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[6709,24132,27112,483,27113,24770],"class_list":["post-29518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-education-2","tag-hec-2","tag-new-subjects","tag-pakistan-2","tag-traing-in-emerging-trends-in-st","tag-universities-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29521,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518\/revisions\/29521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}