BSEK Class IX enrolment forms submission date
BSEK extends form submission date
Karachi, Sep 02: The Board of Secondary Education
Karachi has extended the last for submission of enrolment forms for
Class IX till September 20, said Secretary BSEK Hoor Bi Mazhar on
Tuesday. The applicants could submit the forms till the given date
without any late fee. Prior to the announcement, the last date for
the form submission was September 01. The secretary said that owing to
unavoidable situations, including conversion of a number of schools into
relief camps and a bad law and order situation in the city, the
students had faced problems submitting their forms on time. The decision
was made to facilitate the applicants, she added. Meanwhile, central
chairman of All Private Schools Management Association Sindh, Syed
Khalid Shah, and other representatives of the body had also met with
chairman BSEK Syed Anzar Hussain Zaidi recently to request him to extend
the last date for the submission of enrolment forms. The members of
association had said to Zaidi that students of many pubic and private
schools would not be able to submit their forms on the due date and
requested him to increase the deadline in this regard. The schools'
administrations, students and their parents had remained disturbed due
to a bad law and order situation in the city during the last month or
so, they had said. The news
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BIEK declares home economics part-I results
Karachi: Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced on
Tuesday the results for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) Home
Economics Group Part-I and Diploma in Physical Education (DPE). The
total number of registered candidates in Home Economics Part-I Annual
2010 was 299, out of which 268 appeared, 125 candidates passed all seven
papers, 47 six papers, 33 five papers, 19 four papers, 12 three papers,
12 two papers while 13 passed only one paper. In the DPE, 21 candidates
were registered. Twenty appeared and nine passed it with a pass
percentage of 45 percent. ppi
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Universities oppose 4-year degree programme
Peshawar: Several public sector universities have raised
objections to the launching of four-year bachelor degree programme in
the colleges of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it has been learnt. The
administrations of the universities have expressed reservations that the
implementation of the programme was not feasible, an official in
provincial Higher Education department said. However,
Secretary Higher Education Farah Hamid Khan, when contacted, said the
programme would be implemented in the designated colleges at all cost,
saying "it is policy of the government". The government has
introduced the programme from the current academic session aimed at
bringing the education level to the international standard. The new
programme is part of the National Education Policy with the changed
curriculum fulfilling criteria of the international standard. Of 134 colleges across the province, the new programme had been
implemented in 19 post-graduate and degree colleges as a pilot project
in the existing budget, the official said. The education department
wants to implement the new programme in all the colleges of the province
if is successful in the selected colleges, she further said. Currently the project is underway in various colleges of Kohat, Bannu,
Saidu Sharif Swat, Mardan, Nowshera, Charsadda, Karak, Lakki Marwat,
Haripur, Abbottabad, Manhera, Temergara and Peshawar. The
universities have also expressed no-confidence on the ability and
capacity of the teachers in colleges, saying the new programme is based
on the semesters which need a lot of assessment of the students. The second major objection was that under semester system a teacher of
the college has been given the power to give 60 per cent marks to the
student through internal evaluation while 40 per cent marks would be
given by external examiners. They fear that the teachers in colleges would not be able to deliver on merit and in a transparent way, the official said.
The official further said that the universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
have already launched the four-year degree programme at high fee; so
they think that if the same programme was launched in colleges, it would
decrease their earnings. Defending the implementation of the
new programme in the colleges, the official said that monitoring and
evaluation committees would be established at provincial and divisional
level to make programme successful. There was strong opposition
from the administration of Bannu university, she said, adding "we are
trying to convince them; otherwise colleges in Bannu will abolish their
affiliation with the Bannu University." The secretary higher
education said she had summoned a meeting of the vice chancellors of the
public sector universities on September 2 to solve the issue amicably. Once
the new programme was implemented in the colleges, it would reduce
burden on the universities that would pave the way for the more poor
students to get higher education, she said. Dawn
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Quiz competition at SSUET
Karachi: An Al-Quran quiz competition was held
by the Pakistan Quiz Society at the auditorium of the Sir Syed
University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET). The chancellor
of the university, Engr Z.A. Nizami, appreciated the efforts of Hafiz
Nasimuddin for creating awareness and spreading Islamic teachings among
the students through quiz competitions. He urged him to organize such informative and knowledgeable quiz competitions in every month for the Muslim youth. The
quiz competition had three rounds of questions. In the first round
there were five questions, in the second round there were three
questions for each contestant team of two students. While the third
round concluded on a knock-out basis. According to the judges, Mehreen
and Maria of Ideal Degree College secured first prize, and second prize
went to Fahim Hassan and Umar Aslam of Government College for Men. Shazia
Perveen and Fauzia Bano of Government College for Women got the third
prize. Special prize went to Muhammad Aziz and Muhammad Shoaib of the
Adamjee Institute. Prof. Dr. Nasiruddin Khan, Pro Vice Chancellor
Karachi University and Hafiz Nasimuddin also spoke on the occasion.
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FUUAST sends relief goods to flood victims
Karachi: The management of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and
Technology (FUUAST) management on Tuesday sent flood relief packets
worth millions of rupees to the affected areas. The relief material,
which contains food, mineral water and medicines, was sent through a
Pakistan Air Force aircraft. Dean Faculty of Islamic Studies Dr
Hissamuddin Mansoori led the delegation of some teachers and thirty
volunteers from his faculty to deliver the relief material meant for
1500 families. He handed over the materials to Dr Nilofar Shaikh, Vice
Chancellor, University of Khairpur. Tne news
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