Karachi: Not a single student of as many as 18 educational institutions of the city, including nine public sector colleges and higher secondary schools, has passed the higher secondary school certificate part-II (humanities) group annual exams 2009.

Moreover, the results of nine colleges – eight government colleges and one government higher secondary school – in the same exams also remained less than 10 per cent.

Taking exception to these poor results, Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) Chairman Prof Anwar Ahmed Zai has issued notices to all those educational institutions whose performance in the HSC annual exams remained abysmally poor, asking them to explain why their affiliation with the BIEK should not be suspended or cancelled in view of their extremely poor performance.

The 18 colleges whose results in the exams remained zero per cent are these: Ashrafi Intermediate College, Gulshan-i-Iqbal; Al-Razi College of Intermediate Education; Govt Degree Arts/Commerce College, Razzakabad; Mumtaz Govt Boys Higher Secondary School; Medico Higher Secondary School, Majeed Colony, Landhi; Iqra Grammar High Secondary School, Ahmed Raza Road; Govt Girls Science/Commerce College, Block K, North Nazimabad; Sirajuddaula Govt College (Evening); Allama Iqbal Govt Boys College; Govt Degree Boys College, Baldia Town; Govt Degree Boys College, KMC Store, Nishtar Road; University College, Gulshan-i-Iqbal; Ideal Degree College, Gulshan-i-Iqbal; Imam Hasan Askari Girls College, Nazimabad; Jauhar College of Information Technology & Management Sciences; Govt Girls Higher Secondary School, Murad Memon Goth; Govt Degree Arts/Commerce College for Men (Evening), Korangi-6 and Govt Degree Boys College, Quaidabad.

The nine government educational institutions whose exams results remained less than 10 per cent are these: Govt Degree Science, Art and Commerce College, Murad Memon Goth; Jamia Millia Govt College (Morning); Sirajuddaulla Govt College (Morning); Govt Comprehensive Boys Higher Secondary School, Korangi-3; S.M. Govt Arts and Commerce College (Evening); Govt City College (Evening); Haji Abdullah Haroon Govt College (Morning); Jinnah Govt College, Nazimabad and Govt City College (Morning).

Attributing the poor performance of the government colleges in the Intermediate exams to a number of causes – like the shortage of teachers, less academic days, ill-equipped laboratories and a growing influence of politically-backed student organizations – senior teachers of government colleges said that the performance of government colleges would continue to deteriorate as long as the education department did not resolve these problems.

However, they expressed their surprise over the abysmal performance of students of private colleges, saying that it was beyond their comprehension why private colleges, despite charging hefty fees from their students, were not able to produce satisfactory results.

The senior teachers also urged the BIEK to strictly implement the Board’s Calendar.

Supporting the action against colleges whose results in the HSC exams remained less than 10 per cent, they said that such an action on the part of the board would not only help in bringing to an end mushrooming of private colleges in the city, but it would also compel authorities of government colleges to improve their performances by increasing the number of teachers to a required level and by resolving other problems faced by these institutions.

[Source: interface.edu.pk]