The Institute of Management Sciences (IMSciences)
is the foremost management school
of the NWFP, and increasingly its recognition
has been extending beyond the Frontier.
As a public sector Institute it is markedly different
from others because it is fully autonomous
and self governing. This enables it to respond
quickly to all new developments in the world of
academia and meet the requirements of employers. IMSciences operates with a view to foster
growth in students’ know how and professional skills and enable them to remain competitive in a tight labor market. |
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and over time we have expanded
our functions. Today IMSciences offers degree programmes
for business administration, management, information
technology and public health. These
are all similarly tied knowledge bases that help
create synergy and foster the cross fertilization
of knowledge. The current position of the IMSciences as a
forerunner in education provision has come
about as a unique case of self sustained development.
This was made possible by a dedicated
staff that had the creativity to grow beyond
the narrow confines of state provided education. Most of the universities in Pakistan have been
in stasis for decades now, but the IMSciences
has been one of the few examples of successful
growth in academia, one that has become a
benchmark of quality for others. |
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The Institute of Management Sciences owes
its reputation in part to the structure it is endowed
with. It is a government body of higher
education that grew out of the University of Peshawar,
but is free of many of the bottlenecks
that are sometimes associated with traditional
governance structures.
The simplest analogy to understand what an
autonomous status is by comparing IMSciences
to the Institute of Business Administration
(IBA), Karachi. Both are autonomous and Government
of Pakistan entities. Both institutes
growth outpaced that of the universities they
were initially associated with. Like IBA, IMSciences
also awards its own degree under
the aegis of the HEC of Pakistan.
The IMSciences is recognized by the government
as a seat of excellence, and to facilitate
its further expansion and excellence in Information
Technology, Business Administration,
Public Health and all allied disciplines, a Board
of Governors was placed as a policy making
body.
The Board of Governors is composed of eminent
educationists, industrialists, prominent
corporate executives, and representatives of
the Provincial & Federal Government. It is a
dynamic body with the ability of input in the
running of the institute’s many different, and
essential perspectives.
As a public sector institution, the Board of Governors
also provides a crucial link between the
IMSciences and the business world. |
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1999: The Government of the NWFP declared
the Institute autonomous notification No. SO
(UE) 1-47/98 on the 12-6-1999 as the Institute
of Management Sciences.
2002: The Status as a Statutory entity was
granted through the promulgation of the Institute
of Management Sciences Ordinance 2002
by the Governor of the NWFP on October 2,
2002 through No. LEGIS: 1 (12)/98/7278 by
the Law Department, Government of NWFP.
2005: The IMSciences Board of Governors in
its seventh meeting on the 10th of May 2005
allowed IMSciences to issue its own degrees to
fuel academic growth and determine its own
strategic priorities. |
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