Higher Education Department is responsible for education, learning and related services for students, as well as teaching and non-teaching staff, serving in public and private higher education institutions in the Punjab.
[1] The department has administrative and financial control over the Higher Education sector in the Punjab.
The department also supervises 09 boards of intermediate and secondary education and public and private sector universities and degree awarding institutes in the Punjab.
[2] Directorate of Public Instruction Colleges (Punjab) is an attached department that performs a coordinating role between the secretariat and the district education office.
The Higher Education Department has a network of 09 Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education to cater to the examination of Intermediate classes in public and private sector colleges across Punjab[4] This article about government in Pakistan is a stub.