Question papers bank for matriculation level
Question papers bank on the cards
Lahore, July 16: The Punjab Higher Education Department is working to establish
a question papers bank in 10 subjects at the matriculation level and 14 subjects
at the intermediate level to improve question papers in particular and the
examination system in general. In order to create a talent pool of
paper-setters, the Higher Education Department has selected 325 paper-setters
out of 600 teachers, who had applied following advertisements in newspapers. The
selected paper-setters belong to school, college and university cadres.
The boards of intermediate and secondary education have also been asked
to create facilities and launch e-marking system. The Higher Education
Department organised a consultative meeting of the selected paper-setters here
on Friday. Secretary Ahad Khan Cheema briefed them about the challenges being
faced by the department in developing the examination system for the
satisfaction of international standards. Later, Cheema said that the
selected paper-setters were asked technical questions to assess their expertise,
and now the department would keep on building their capacity. He said these
teachers would develop a bank of multiple choice questions (MCQs) as well as
subjective questions. Dawn
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Concern over low spending on education
Lahore: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Rector Abdul
Razzak Dawood has said the state of education in Pakistan is alarmingly
appalling and should be a matter of concern for every person. Speaking
at a certificate distribution ceremony of a 10-day capacity building workshop
for schoolteachers organised by the Progressive Education Network (PEN) at Ali
Institute of Education as the chief guest, he said education was a serious
activity and the government and the private sector should work together for
strengthening the education system of the country. He said teachers were
not given due respect and status in our society. He called teachers as "unsung
heroes" who were contributing their lives to imparting quality education. He
added education was an interactive process in which both teachers and students
played an important role. The LUMS rector appreciated the role of PEN in
teachers training and hoped that in future the organisation would also play its
role in promoting quality education in the country. He said teachers should be
given due respect in society. Speaking on the occasion, PEN chief
executive officer Nadeem Babar said a visit to various public schools in the
city showed that children wanted to learn and teachers wanted to teach but the
system hindered their aspirations. Sharing his experiences, he said
during a visit to various countries almost all nations were developing but
Pakistan was not. "It's just because of sheer neglect to education", he added.
He said Bangladesh was spending some eight per cent of its public funding on
education and regretted that the Pakistan government was even slashing its
already meagre budget for education. Nadeem Babar said the select group
of primary and secondary school teachers was trained by experts of Ali Institute
of Education for ten days.
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PU bus service
Lahore: The Punjab University (PU) has announced shuttle bus service from the varsity's the Faisal
Auditorium, New Campus, to various academic departments to facilitate the
visiting students and their parents who intend to seek admission in various
disciplines during the forthcoming academic session. Admission Organizing
Committee chairman Prof Dr Muhammad Amin Athar, presiding over a meeting of the
committee held at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology on Friday,
said Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran had issued the directions in this
regard. The meeting decided that no student organization would be allowed to set
up any admission stalls. The news
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PU receives 40 more degrees for verification
Lahore: The Punjab University has received another 40 degrees of
parliamentarians from the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for verification.
The university is already in the process of verifying 97 degrees, while
217 degrees have been returned after verification. Dawn
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Sindh students visit UVAS
Lahore: A 70-member delegation of students from Sindh Agriculture
University (SAU), Tandojam, visited University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
(UVAS) on Friday. SAU final year DVM students of veterinary,
pharmacology, microbiology, parasitology and pathology departments were led by
Dr Hamzo Khan. They visited UVAS Pet Center, University Diagnostic
Laboratory (UDL), WTO Quality Control Laboratory and outdoor clinic of the
varsity and also called on UVAS Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Nawaz. Earlier,
Dr Nawaz informed the visiting students that UVAS was one of the oldest
institutions in Asia dedicated to quality research and education. The news
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