Rift over acknowledgment tests: Punjab physique ‘culls’ sovereign HEC’s directives
HEC constitutes ETC to control tests, while Punjab advises varsities to lift out tests on their own. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD: There appears to be a difference sharpening between a sovereign Higher Education Commission (HEC) and a Punjab HEC over conducting acknowledgment tests during varsities and degree-awarding institutes as a former has constituted a contrast legislature to lift out such tests, while a latter has informally destined them to organize tests on their own.
This difference has also combined a sequence among other provinces as well, as a HECs of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Balochistan are on house with a sovereign HEC’s decision, while a Sindh HEC is subsidy Punjab HEC.
“The Punjab HEC is not firm to follow a directives of a sovereign HEC,” a clamp chancellor of a university in Punjab, requesting anonymity, pronounced on Thursday. “We will endorse about a new directives of a sovereign HEC in a subsequent associate assembly after Eidul Fitr.”
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A minute from sovereign HEC Executive Director Arshad Ali was sent to a clamp chancellors, rectors and heads of open and private universities seeking their acknowledgment and support for a giveaway Education Testing Council (ETC).
According to a minute sent on Jun 7, a tests will be organised during a tumble division (September) this year. The sovereign HEC had launched a ETC in Apr 2016 and given afterwards it has conducted tests of over 100,000 students for inland and abroad grant programmes.
In Dec final year, a sovereign HEC sensitive all universities by an ad that it would be imperative for them to control acknowledgment tests underneath a ETC.
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The sovereign HEC contrast use will arrange acknowledgment tests in 5 categories while a registration routine will be finished online, a presentation read.
The ETC will be rising tests for admissions of undergraduate programmes from tumble 2017 and during initial half of Jul 2017 in 5 categories – engineering; medical; simple and healthy sciences; supervision and amicable sciences; and humanities and humanities, it added.
The minute suggested that a ETC would lift out tests in all vital cities of Pakistan in aloft preparation institutions by online registration routine giving students a autocracy to select a exam centre of their choice.
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Meanwhile, a HEC also asked universities to commission a focal chairman and yield infrastructure comforts in a institutions, a minute stated.
Through a notification, a HEC urged a institutions of Punjab to endorse adoption of a ETC Aptitude Test for acknowledgment to undergraduate programmes.
The sovereign HEC states that a beginning was taken on a recommendation of a supervision of Pakistan to soothe a students and their relatives from a weight of holding mixed recruitment tests and profitable fees for any exam separately.
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Holding tests for over 170 open and private universities will not be reduction than a plea as a Lahore High Court (LHC) in 2014 had announced a National Testing Service (NTS) an unapproved body. The justice also destined a HEC to settle a possess contrast use for a purpose, that it did so in a figure of ETC.
NTS Acting CEO Air Commodore (retd) Dr Sherzada Khan had some-more than mostly mentioned before a media that a sovereign HEC had no charge to run a monitoring and contrast physique simultaneously.
Interestingly, it was in early 2000 when a sovereign HEC indirectly sensitive a universities to reason acknowledgment tests underneath a NTS, though as there was no created presentation or sequence about it, a sovereign HEC could not infer it in LHC.
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Later, a physique became argumentative due to several flaws and financial irregularities in a complement being run by a CEO Haroon Rashid whose PhD topic was also found plagiarised and eventually he had to resign.
Punjab factor
Interestingly, after a minute was circulated opposite a country, Punjab HEC informally sensitive a universities in a range to take their possess tests.
The preference comes during a backdrop of a scuffle between a sovereign HEC and Punjab HEC, given a arrangement in 2014. As a purpose of sovereign HEC has nonetheless to be finalised in a new scenario, a scuffle is mostly seen on several issues.
The Express Tribune contacted Punjab HEC Chairperson Dr Nizamuddin, though he was not accessible for comment.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1436769/rift-admission-tests-punjab-body-culls-federal-hecs-directives/