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Colleges likely to lose affiliation
Karachi, Nov 19, 2007: Affiliation of all those colleges whose performance was below mark in the Annual Examination-2007 is likely to be cancelled, highly placed sources said.
In this connection, a meeting of Committee of Chairmen has been convened on Monday at Governor House with the controlling authority in the chair.
The chairmen of all the five boards - Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana and Mirpurkhas - as well as Director General Colleges will attend the meeting.
The decision to cancel affiliation of such colleges was taken after 80% of colleges both in public and private sectors failed to secure the required result. Statistics of the results showed that students in about 75% of private and government colleges did not clear all six papers.
Surprisingly, the result chart issued by the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi showed students only passing one paper. The percentage of successful male candidates in Science and General groups was only 7%, which shows deterioration in education standard.
It may be mentioned here that show cause notices were earlier issued to these colleges in this regard, but all in vain.
DG Colleges Rafiq Siddique could not be contacted as his cell phone was off, while Chairman BIEK Anwar Zai, when approached, cited three reasons for such dismal performance by the colleges. According to him, when the principals of government colleges were asked to clarify the position; they replied that most of the colleges were running short of faculty e.g. only 15 teachers were appointed on the available 35 seats.
Beside, ill-equipped labs and short attendance of teachers were cited as other basic reasons.
The principals of private colleges have another story to tell. They blamed unqualified, inexperienced and low paid teachers for the deteriorating situation in educational institutions. The other reasons cited for poor results were the setting up of colleges in residential areas and non-existent or ill-equipped laboratories.
However, a letter containing complete details of the annual report of colleges was despatched to the Governor Sindh, the controlling authority.
There was a shortage of about 3,000 teachers and to cope with the situation, "cooperative" teachers were appointed but the exercise was later discontinued. Later, Prime Minister's Programme was introduced under which intern teachers were recruited on monthly remuneration of Rs 10,000 in order to overcome shortage of teachers in colleges. Cooperative teachers were hired at Rs 4,000 per month, who were paid through college funds which were collected under different heads like tuition fees, etc. However, this exercise was discontinued as the colleges ran short of funds, while amount paid to such teachers was extremely insufficient for them. The News
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