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Implications for the Future of AKU |
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The implications we draw from ten years of AKU's
life thus far are several. They are that : |
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- the University will probably continue to respond
to needs at different academic levels, from diploma to graduate
studies; |
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- what is undertaken will be well done, and find
wider influence through exemplary conceptions and standards;
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- research has been slower to develop than education
and service, and will need more attention to achieve the importance
it must have to make AKU a distinguished university; |
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- location in Pakistan has given a distinctly
Pakistani character to the institution, though its international
vocation has not been forgotten. Locations in other settings
may be expected to give their special coloration to AKU branches;
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- AKU's character as a Muslim university is well
expressed and there is concern in the faculty and staff to see
it accentuated; |
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- quite large resources have been needed to launch
the University but have been successfully acquired, as they
may be in future. |
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| 8.2 |
Our brief survey of AKDN and IIS shows AKU as
a member of a family of institutions with many promising complementarities.
The present development of the health sciences and education
in AKU has brought a set of relationships with AKES and AKHS
that are already important and show many unrealised potentials
for the future. The role of AKF in the emergence of IED and
its strategic approach to development problems suggests that
it may continue to stimulate AKU's commitment to the needs of
development. In such fields as architecture, economic growth,
Islamic ,culture and civilisations where AKU is not ,currently
active, AKTC, AKFED, and IIS offer records of experience and
accomplishment which AKU can build on as it seeks its own future
in these Subjects. A need for genuine complementarity With
judicious divisions of mission and responsibility is evident.
AKU has the potential provide research, education and services
which will be valuable throughout AKDN, while using other members'
facilities and their experience to enrich its own work. It must
not try to do what other institutions in AKDN are better or
more naturally equipped to do, or simply exploit what they have
to offer. But it must, of course, be true to its own purposes
and autonomy as it co-operates with others in the family. |
