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Inter students abandoning pre-medical, pre-engg & arts
Board of Intermediate Education of Karachi: Students abandoning medicine for business
Karachi, May 27, 2008: In a radical new trend that
has developed over the last year alone, over 50 percent of Intermediate students
in Karachi have chosen Commerce and turned away from pre-Medical,
pre-Engineering and Arts subjects.
According to official data, this year
72,921 students appeared for the Commerce subjects up from last year's meager
22,000, registering a 230 percent increase.
Compared to this, the
enrolment for pre-Med, pre-Engineering and Arts has increased only 30 percent.
Last year, the entire combined group of the three batches came to 60,000. This
year, it increased to 77,662. However, the increase is not significant as
enrolment goes up each year. What is significant is that a major chunk of the
new students went for Commerce.
"Commerce provides more opportunities
these days," said Salman Tariq who just sat the Commerce intermediate
examinations. "You can go into banks, join multinational companies. Commerce
students earn more than medical or engineering students. I think we have a
strong future."
This trend has been noted by Board of Intermediate
Education Karachi (BIEK) Chairman Anwar Ahmedzai who said that this
has prompted them to undertake statistical analysis of examination trends each
year. Educationists can then see which subjects students are gravitating to and
why. He added that job market trends should also be analyzed. Why are students
taking less interest in the pre-Medical, pre-Engineering and Arts subjects,
which were once the most popular choices?
All Sindh education boards have
a research wing but they are mostly inactive. This kind of research was also
once conducted at the Board of Secondary Education by the then chairman M. I.
Memon, who had given this responsibility to Dr Parveen. After his assassination,
the project was abandoned. Apparently, an Inter-board study of examinations in
Sindh has not been carried out in the last five years.
However, BIEK
chairman Ahmedzai said that he has asked the board's directorate of educational
research to scientifically evaluate the examination papers for the last five
years for each subject in the pre-Medical, pre-Engineering, Home Economics,
Commerce, General Science and Humanities groups. He is also interested in
finding out why students have been getting lower grades over the
years.
The BIEK will be seeking assistance and guidance from senior
professors in the research work. Daily Times
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Semester exams begin at Sindh University
Hyderabad: The Sindh University's first semester examinations
started at 39 examination centres set up in different departments and institutes
in a peaceful and disciplined manner on Monday.
The administration and
district management had taken strict security measures on the day and set up
check posts at the main entrances to the campus to check vehicles before letting
them enter.
The examinations were earlier postponed after the murder of a
university student, Abdul Nabi Brohi on May 14. As many as 24,000 students of
the university are appearing in the first and special semester
examinations.
The Sindh University's Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Mazharul Haq
Siddiqui, visited examination centres set up at the Faculty of Pharmacy,
Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Institute of
Biochemistry, Institute of Microbiology and other departments to inspect
security arrangements.
He paid surprise visits to boys' hostels on Sunday
night and advised hostellers in a meeting to maintain discipline and pay
attention to their education. Dawn
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Jamia Millia College injured teacher died
Karachi: A college teacher, who was shot at by unidentified
bandits some days ago, succumbed to his wounds on Sunday, police
said.
Munir Ahmed Arain, an associate professor at Jamia Millia College,
was wounded in a robbery bid when he put up resistance at the campus on May 16,
said Senior Investigation Officer Ghulam Abbas of Al Falah police
station.
The injured teacher was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical
Centre where he was operated upon. A team of doctors removed two bullets from
his body.
After undergoing the operation, he got a case (FIR No 103/2008)
registered under Section 397/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code. He informed the
police that two unidentified youths had robbed him of Rs15,000 and shot at him
when he put up resistance.
However, the SIO said, his condition
deteriorated and he died at the hospital on Sunday.
The deceased leaves
three children and a widow who took the body to Nawabshah for
burial.
Police had recovered a pistol used in the offence from the crime
scene, but remained unable to arrest the assailants so far. PPI
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