Faculty Training and Development in the Public Sector Universities of Punjab
Dr. Abida Nasreen, Munawar S. Mirza

Abstract
The study was conducted to examine current practices of faculty training and development in the old and new public sector universities of Punjab, Pakistan. The sample of study included teachers, heads of departments (HoDs), and human resource management (HRM) experts. The data from teachers and HoDs were collected through questionnaires. Interviews were conducted with HRM experts. The main objective was to analyze the current practices of faculty development (FD) and training in old and new universities of Punjab. The results showed that training programs were more instrumental in improving teachers’ skills and attitudes in old universities as compared with that in new universities. Universities do not have HRM offices. Therefore, specialized advice on HRD practices was also non existent. HRM experts were concerned on sporadic conduct of training programs and they suggested regularizing and evaluating such programs appropriately.

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