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Several complaints against private schools
Complaints paint grim picture of private schools
| Karachi, Nov 05: Several complaints against private schools have depicted the real
picture of irregularities, being faced by students and their parents in the
metropolitan. These complaints were lodged before Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq, Sindh
provincial minister for education and literacy, as he was listening the problems
of the citizens at the Chief Minister House, following the directives of Sindh
CM Qaim Ali Shah. |
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Majority of the complaints was against the private
schools. The minister had issued directives to the authorities concerned to
solve the civic problems on priority basis. One of the complaints was against a
private school, namely Head Start Junior Shahrah-e-Faisal, filed by Syed
Ghazanfar Hussain father of a student, Syed Irtiza Hussain, of Head Start
Junior. According to the complaint, the said school has seized the security
deposit worth Rs 10,000 at the departure of the said student.
The complainant
had been informed by the administration of the school that his security deposit
had been charged for the period to which neither his child had attained the
classes nor it was informed to complainant in advance.
Ghazanfar, in the
application, urged the education minister to consider his grievance and demanded
that such schools and all the institutions should be dealt with severe
punishment according to the law and for the sake of the safe guarding many
parents who are been deprived and black-mailed. Haq directed the authorities
concerned to get the complainant back his money from the said school as no
school has a right to have any amount on account of security deposit, as per the
rules. On the other hand it is a common trend at the private schools to do as
per their desire or objectives regardless of the rules and
regulations.
Nearly 3,000 to 3,500 private schools in Karachi are registered
with the Sindh Education Department. Conversely, 3,000 to 4,000 unregistered
private schools are working in the City. Despite the presence of the regulation
and control authority of private schools, numerous private schools have carried
on bothering students and their parents by charging excessive and unjustified
fee.
Such private schools are charged of giving meagre salaries to their
employees including teachers. Sindh Education Department is direly required to
start effective campaign against such schools and form inspection teams to check
admission policy, syllabus, fee and teachers' salary structure during their
visit to private schools. The Nation
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"Well, everyone knows that all private schools have been charging a huge fees from the students parents which is totally unbearable for them. All private school fees must be monitored and besides this, schools also charge some other fees time to time by different activities. Books are also too expensive and not easily available in the market. Cost of books also control so everyone accesses these books easily. Regards."
Name: sajid
Email: sashsmart@hotmail.com
City, Country: Karachi, Pakistan
"I regret in form you that, to higer authorities in Karachi Board Education, they know everyone knows that all private schools have been charging a huge fees from the students parents which is totally unbearable for them. All private school fees must be monitored and besides this, schools also charge some other fees like additional vication summer/vinter June and also July fee time to time by different activities. Books are also too expensive and not easily available in the market. Cost of books also control so everyone accesses these books easily. Therefore you are requested to kindly consider the above matter will be solved in short period. Thanks & B. Rgds Capt. Shah ."
Name: Capt. Shah
Email: nasi@seacotrans.com
City, Country: Karachi, Pakistan
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Students clash at SM Law College. 9 injured in clash between student bodies
Karachi: At least nine people were injured in a clash between the members of All
Pakistan Muttahida Students Organisation (APMSO) and Islami Jamiat Taliba (IJT)
at SM Law College on Tuesday, within the jurisdiction of Preedy Police Station.
Tension gripped the college as activists of both organisations attacked
each other with batons and rods and even resorted to aerial
firing.
According to details, tension has existed between both
organisations for a long time now but the clash that took place on Tuesday was
over the entry of activists from outside the college during student
week.
IJT claimed that APMSO activists deliberately started the clash to
sabotage a book fair organised by IJT, scheduled to start on Wednesday.
They further alleged that as per a pre-planned agenda, the APMSO workers
came with sticks and rods to attack IJT activists, as a result of which four
activists sustained injuries.
On the contrary, APMSO alleged that the
workers of IJT have regularly been inviting party activists to terrorise other
students of the college, adding that the IJT activists and their outsiders
suddenly beat up two workers of APMSO and tried to take them out of the college
on which other workers and supporters came to negotiate with the IJT workers but
they started fighting and five of the APMSO workers sustained injuries and were
taken to a hospital.
Eyewitnesses said that heavy contingents of police
surrounded the college building for more than an hour but could not access the
building and they tried to negotiate with both the parties.
DSP Salman
Hussain said that the main reason behind the clash was the arrival of outsiders
into the college premises. He added that both parties have been blaming each
other for the clash however a settlement was made between the organisations but
the college was evacuated. The DSP further said that the activists used weapons
and resorted to aerial firing but none of the injured sustained bullet wounds.
No arrest was made and no FIR was registered till this report was filed.
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Summary to regularise 700 lecturers sent to CM
Karachi: The Sindh Education Department has prepared a summary for
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, to regularise 700 lecturers, who were
appointed four years back but their services had not been regularised yet, said
department officials.
They said that it is expected that the CM will sign
the summary in the next few days and the lecturers will be given permanent
status by mid-November.
It may be mentioned here that the Sindh Education
Department had refused to pay heed to the federal government directive to make
the appointments through the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC), recruiting
the700 lecturers, during the previous regime.
A private educational
institution conducted the test in mid-December 2003 and handed the results to
the education department within ten days. According to the rules, only those
lecturers appointed through the SPSC are given permanent status. Otherwise, the
recruitment is made on an ad-hoc basis.
Representatives of the ad-hoc lecturers, Khan Mohammad Zangejo, Dilshad,
Zulfiqar and others, observed that their services should be regularised within
two years after working as ad-hoc lecturers.
Expressing their joy over
getting a permanent status, they said that they had completed three years in
service but they still await confirmation. They have also not been receiving
their salaries and their families are starving, they maintained.
Sindh
Professors and Lecturers Association spokesman Prof Iftikhar Muhammad Azami said that it was a good move to regularise the ad-hoc teachers. He added
that however this could not be done through a summary as only the provincial
assembly has the power to regularise the lecturers and said that the government
should adopt a resolution in the Sindh Assembly to make these lecturers
permanent.
Commenting on appointment through private institutions, Azami
said that although it was an unwise decision, the lecturers should not be sacked
and future appointments should be made through the SPSC to avoid another dilemma
like this one, he suggested. Daily Times
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| Education News | | Updated: 09 Feb, 2012 |
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