Karachi intermediate marksheets errors
Carelessness at BIEK irks students
Karachi, Feb 27: An annual mark sheet, bearing no signature of the controller of the
examinations Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK), was sent
to a private candidate of the Humanities Group, it has been learnt. The
said student received his marks sheet when the results of the
Humanities (Special Candidates, Private and Regular) Group, Part-I,
were announced in December last year. Sources claim that similar
mistakes are common in the mark sheets issued by the BIEK and this has
caused panic and severe concern among the students. Sources
said that this careless attitude had raised serious questions
about the efficiency of the BIEK staff. "This one has a serious error
and many students have seen similar inaccuracies in the recently issued
annual marks sheets by the board. However, the authorities concerned do
not seem to take it as a serious matter at all," they added. The
omission of signatures or, in some cases, mistakes in printing the
grand total of marks in the result sheets were some common mistakes
that were made by the BIEK, the sources said. This exercise had become
a headache for the students but, unfortunately, the approach was still
working in same manner, they added. "If it had happened in any
other part of the world then it would have been taken as a 'wakeup
call'. It is also for sure that the dedicated authorities surely
rectify the system at the earliest possible time, but this is not the
case here," the sources said. In this regard, Chairman
BIEK Anwar Ahmed Zai said, "First of all, BIEK would
like to see if the mark sheet is a genuine one and was really issued by
the board." "We have given special codes to each mark sheet. In
such cases, the code number will be entered into the BIEK system which
will give the complete information about the candidate," he said. "This
new system was introduced at the board in 2008 and it will help in
tracing any forged document especially the marks sheets," Ahmed Zai
said, adding that the code available on the mark sheet of the concerned
candidate would confirm the status of it. The BIEK chairman further
said that if it appeared as a genuine document, then the board would
take necessary action against the person who committed the mistake.
However, the chairman BIEK did not mention what measures would be taken
in this regard. Meanwhile, Ahmed Zai made it clear that board
did not count the marks of the paper of those candidates who did not
pass the papers. The news
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Body formed to save education
Hyderabad: Seven political parties and 46 social welfare
organisations have formed the Hyderabad Development Forum and appointed
a political parties' steering committee to save education from
destruction. This was announced by steering committee
members, including Zahid Mallah, Anwar Khaskheli, Sachal Gopang and
Fayaz Buriro, at a news conference here on Friday. Political
parties included the Awami Tahreek, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party, Sindh
United Party, Save Sindh Movement, Awami Party Pakistan, Jamiat Ulemai
Islam and Sindhiani Tahreek. Anwar Khaskheli said that according to the forum,
education in Sindh had been destroyed. He said that in many schools,
teachers usually remained absent while some teachers received salaries
at home by paying bribe to the official concerned. He said the
supervisory staff was not able to perform its duties
due to rampant corruption and political interference.
The situation had reached such a stage that students from other
provinces came here to get degrees because of the total deterioration
in the standard of education in Sindh, Anwar Khaskheli said. Dawn
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IBCC, NBF meeting
Karachi: A meeting of the Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC) as well as
representatives of the country's prominent universities and the
National Book Foundation is being held in Karachi on March 1 and 2 to
discuss the implementation of the new educational policy as well as
other issues concerning education. This was stated by Chairman
Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK), Anwar Ahmed Zai, who is
also the head of IBCC while addressing a news conference at a local
hotel on Friday. Zai said that during the meeting, a proposal
forwarded by the Higher Education Directorate of Pakistan Armed Forces
regarding establishment of a new technical board would also come under
discussion. He said that a proposal to establish a new technical
board, to be working under the control of Higher Education Directorate
of Pakistan Armed Forces had been forwarded to promote technical
education at its educational institutes. The IBCC chairman said
that during the meeting, a decision of the Punjab High Court's
Rawalpindi Bench on a writ petition by the International Islamic
University Islamabad would also be discussed. Similarly, possibilities
to review Scheme of Studies 2006 due to difficulties in its
implementation would also come under discussion at the IBCC meeting, he
said. The news
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