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AIOU engineering programme accreditation issue
AIOU students protest
Islamabad, April 11, 2008: Hundreds of students of
Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) protested in front of the Parliament House
throughout the day demanding the accreditation of their engineering programme
with Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).
The students said the university
had started B.E Telecom programme in 2000 and so far it has not been able to get
accreditation from the PEC. The council has visited the campus many times and
suggested to improve the standard of the department and showed concerns over the
university act but the university did not updated itself according to the
standards.
"We can apply neither for government jobs nor for further studies
because we are not considered professional engineers after spending four years
and heavy fees. They have ruined our future. We are not from well off families
and our families depend upon us they not only robbed 4,000 students but 4,000
families."
The students informed that Vice Chancellor
Mehmood-ul-Hasan Butt had stopped further admissions in the four-year bachelor's
programme in Telecom Engineering in 2006 and accelerated the efforts to get
registration from the Pakistan Engineering Council. It's been two years still
the PEC is not ready to recognise the department and the VC has failed to get
registration.
The students have voiced their concerns before the Higher
Education Commission, Ministry of Education and the administration of the
university but all the efforts went futile.
They also regretted that they had
been protesting before the parliament but the politicians did not visit them to
know their grievances except Naseer Ahmad Bhutta. The Nation
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"accredation is the bright future of tht B.E(TELECOM) students ."
Name: RAO TARIQ
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