Examining the Role of Higher Education Quality in Promoting Professional Mobility for Economic Development

Abstract

Education play a dynamic role in preserving a strong lifestyle in Pakistan. Higher Education with an unemployment perspective form one of the main origins to generate frailty and depression in graduates in Pakistan. The major purpose of the study was to identify the role of higher education in economic and social development in the context of the prevailing socioeconomic situation in Pakistan. The present study addressed the objective, for this purpose the quantitative design was used. The sample was drawn through a random sampling technique and the sample size was about 600 students from the Public and Private Universities in Punjab and Islamabad (ICT). A quantitative questionnaire was distributed to collect data, the questionnaire comprised two sections main sections, demographic and baseline evidence. After the collection of data through a questionnaire tool, the statistical package (SPSS version 20) was used and descriptive statistics, frequency percentage, mean, and correlation and t- test was employed to draw the results. The findings of the study revealed that education was adequately playing an important role in personal and professional mobility to the maximum output of tangibly contributing towards economic development of Pakistan.