Higher education is an indispensable part of today's society. On one hand, universities are invaluable resources for students to prepare for their future on the other they serve as centers of academic, social, cultural, and economic development of a nation.
The fundamental principle of a university is to prepare democratic, citizens for an open, inclusive, critical, secular, liberal society, which despite its modern outlook also remains embedded into the golden principles of Islam. Another objective of a university constantly strives to achieve a vigorous capacity for creation and change to foster in learners the ability to pre-empt the future national needs and cater for them by incorporating the advances and discoveries of science and the aesthetic contributions of the human spirit. University should transform society’s value systems, motivations, attitudes, and behaviors.
Learning must create and foster scientific research, innovation, invention, and aesthetic creativity to make it a university of disciplinary and trans-disciplinary quality and not merely a body for awarding degrees that are devoid of meaning. We intend to see it as an institution for objective criticism and the search for new channels for a more enlightened future an institution offering new contents for genuine, participative citizenship and for the practice of peace, tolerance, and ethics an institution that will help reduce unacceptable economic and social imbalances and asymmetries, in short, a university to strengthen social, scientific and economic development, freedom, dignity and authentic democracy. If we continue to only reinforce a utilitarian model of higher education we will never attain the above-said dreams and we will be constrained to continue with the traditional concept of a higher education model in its very narrow sense that i.e. merely a ‘training’ school to award paper degrees devoid of wisdom, global responsibilities and care for people.
Knowledge means the three-dimensional development of an individual i.e. it should promote learners’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Also, it is the mandate of a university to prepare youth for the available job market, yet it's a greater obligation to produce citizen-leaders who care for the world they inhabit, understand its various problems, strive honestly and devotedly to resolve them and by doing so make this planet a better and happier place to live in.
The University of Sindh, the oldest university in the country, was constituted under the University of Sindh Act. No. XVII of 1947 passed by the Legislative Assembly of Sindh. The Act was subsequently revised and modified in 1961 and later. The Act of 1972 under which the University is presently functioning provided for greater autonomy and representation of teachers.
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