Transforming Higher Education: Tackling Financial Constraints and Academia-Industry Gaps

Abstract

The goal of this study is to give Pakistan's smartest kids game-based learning tools that can help the country's economy and society grow. But progress has stalled due to weak administrative structures, chronic underfunding, poor management, outdated courses, and significant differences between men and women. The main goal of the project is to identify and fix these basic problems so that the way gaming is taught can change, and it should have a significant impact. Drawing on Human Capital Theory and Institutional Theory, this study formulates?a theoretical framework and implications for the construction of a modern education system that is open to learning from everywhere. The data came from semi-structured interviews and a focused literature study. NVivo then put the pieces that were previously scattered together to form a whole that made sense. Five long-standing problems were found: chronic underfunding, bad management, disorganised courses, widespread gender bias, and weak links between education, business, and research. The situation, above all, illustrates the interdependence of these difficulties and their habit of making the necessary reforms hard to implement, thus limiting the employment prospects of the graduates. Alternatives, such as different models of educational financing, new leadership, standardized curricula, pay equity, and stronger connections between universities and industry, can help to solve the issues. The current research result delivers directions to implement the reform in game education for both teachers and administrators. The report says that changing how the business is set up will not only make it run more smoothly, but it will also help make schools that are among the best in the world at finding and developing talent.