The Best University Teacher Award (BUTA) was established to recognize outstanding teachers, and incentivize all faculty members to enhance their pedagogical skills. It is open to BPS, TTS, and contract faculty from public as well as private universities, and comes with a certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 100,000.
Recently, the BUTA program, its funding, scope, and selection criteria were reviewed internally in HEC wherein it was observed that the purpose of awards and prizes should be to incentivize desirable actions. A different set of awards criteria, based on indicators of effective teaching, would encourage more attention to teaching. Based on the discussions, it was agreed that there should be a consensus on the objectives of the BUTA program, and that BUTA criteria be revised to reflect these objectives.
Objectives: BUTA has three objectives.
- Incentive: Provide an incentive to faculty members to improve the quality of their teaching and pedagogy;
- Pedagogical: build a national consensus on what constitutes good teaching;
- Capacity Building: build a national database, accessible to all faculty members, especially junior faculty members, of syllabuses, grading systems (including tests, exams, quizzes), lesson plans, and lecture slides (PPTs).
Award Categories:
The HEC BUTA award has been split into two levels:
- University-Level Best University Teacher Award
- The university level awards would be conferred directly by the universities. Each university's best teacher awards will consist of a certificate of merit, plus, if a university Syndicate so decides, a cash award of up to Rs. 200,000/-.
- Only the winners of university level awards would be eligible for competing in the HEC national award competition.
- HEC National-Level Best University Teacher Award
- HEC would confer one or more national awards, to a limited number of recipients, to ensure their exclusivity and prestige. The HEC National Level Best University Teacher Award consists of a cash prize of Rs. 1,000,000/- (Rupees ten Lac only) along with a certificate of merit.
How to Apply:
University-Level Best University Teacher Awards:
Universities are requested to call nominations/widely disseminate information to all the departments for University-Level Best University Teacher Awards for the year 2019-20 as per the revised criteria (See Download" section below).
HEC National-Level Best University Teacher Awards:
The nomination letter of the university-level winners for the HEC National-Level Best University Teacher Award competition should reach HEC till 30th June 2020 to ensure his/her consideration for the HEC National-Level Best Teacher Award. All the documents for HEC National-Level Best Teacher Award must be sent/enclosed in electronic form (in USB/CD/email) on prescribed format (See Download" section below) along with the nomination letter. A scanned copy of certificate regarding university level award winner, duly signed by university's Evaluation Committee and countersigned by the VC/Head of the University, must also be submitted to HEC along with other documents (See Download" section below).
The assessment period of the teachers for the Best Teacher Award 2019-20 is from January 01, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
The nomination letter of the university-level winners for the HEC National-Level Best University Teacher Award competition should reach HEC till 30th June 2020. A nomination proforma for National-Level Award and associated attachments (see "Download" section below) must also be enclosed/sent with the nomination letter in electronic format (e.g. within a folder in USB/CD).
FOCAL PERSON:
Mr. Sulaiman Ahmad Director (Academics) Higher Education Commission, Sector H-9, Islamabad. Email: slahmad@hec.gov.pk | Mr. Muhammad Tufail Qureshi Assistant Director (Academics) Higher Education Commission, Sector H-9, Islamabad. Email: mtqureshi@hec.gov.pk |
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