Pakistan: Universities to Add New Subject to All Degree Programs
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
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 a foundational understanding of AI, including its ethical dimensions, data privacy, transparency and societal impact.
The commission allowed universities to offer the course as an elective, an interdisciplinary module, or an allied subject within the existing program structure.
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.
The commission said universities will implement the requirement from the Fall 2026 academic session.
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Reference Link:- https://propakistani.pk/2026/02/19/universities-to-add-new-subject-to-all-degree-programs/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
