Quality Enhancement Cell Quality Enhancement is defined as strengthening, augmenting, boosting, and improving existing practices. It involves the development of university teaching, with lectures undertaking postgraduate certificate programmes in teaching or academic practice. Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) at GCU was established in March 2007 with a mission “to integrate the concept of quality education in higher learning with enhanced levels of international compatibility through capacity building”. The main focus of quality assurance programme is continuous professional development of staff, Self Assessment Report, Plagiarism Verifications for theses MS/MPhil/PhD and research publications, Faculty Evaluation, GCU Publications, Provision of GCU Statistics to the Higher Education Commission for their Database, to prepare report of PhD Review Process, academic audit and assessment of the academic and administrative departments working within the Quality Assurance (QA) framework. The rationale of placing all theses programmes and implementing them under the umbrella of QEC is not only to focus on maintaining the best faculty, administrative staff and students but to excel in research, academic performance, emerging interdisciplinary courses, strategic and integrated academic planning. Quality Assurance Agency assesses the progress of the Quality Enhancement Cells established in the public / private sector Universities through quantitative / scorecard system. Therefore, QEC at GCU Lahore is also involved actively in gathering, compiling and consolidating information on the HEC Ranking Proforma of HEIs in Pakistan under various categories. The premise of this entire exercise is to compete internationally in QS Ranking and Times World Ranking. FA, FSc, ICom Prospectus 2014 150 Years of Excellence 51