Department of College Education’s detachment from academics; Graduation doors closed in colleges for 4 years

Karachi: After the college education department’s detachment from academics, the doors of graduation in colleges have been closed to the youth of Karachi for four years.

Due to the carelessness and indifference of the Sindh College Education Department, the youth of Karachi have been deprived of the graduation program for the last 4 years and the doors of the degree program in the government colleges have been closed on thousands of middle and poor students who want to get the graduation degree from the government colleges by intermediate. Thousands of young people of the city who are deprived of admission in University of Karachi and any other general university of the public sector are either spending millions of rupees to build new universities or because of lack of capital, they are deprived of higher education and sit at home, but the doors of graduation are closed to them. have happened while the situation is the same in other regions of Sindh and now after the previous provincial government of the People’s Party, the caretaker provincial government is also unable to make any progress in this regard.

In October this year, the Department of College Education suddenly came up with the idea of ​​starting a 4-year BS degree program in government colleges. The seriousness in this regard can be well estimated

The story goes that the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Islamabad, had abolished the two-year graduation program “BA, BSc and BCom” from the whole of Pakistan, including Sindh, four years ago and had issued instructions to start the BS four-year degree program in the colleges. In the meantime, the two-year graduation that has been going on for many decades in colleges has been reduced by one level and changed to “Associate Degree”. They shy away from enrolling because most of the students have to say that “after studying in these two years, if they don’t get a graduation certificate, what will be the benefit of this program. It is better to enroll in an educational institution where a four-year graduation degree program is available.” Hamad, a student, said that after the intermediate When he decided to graduate from the college, he found out that now he will not get the graduation degree, so he will have to go to the university. Instead of enrolling in an associate degree on a private basis because it is a waste of money to go to college for this program.”

It should be noted that at present there are 92 government colleges in Karachi alone which have received the title of degree college from the Department of College Education and two-year graduation BA, B.Com and B.Sc. were being conducted in these colleges until four years ago. Equally because there is no interest of the students in the two-year associate degree, out of 92 government colleges in Karachi, there are only five government colleges where the four-year BS degree program is ongoing on a very limited scale. Among them, Government Commerce College and Khurshid Girls College recently The BS program has been approved by University of Karachi, while B.Ed is already being run in Jamia Millia and Education College and Home Economics program is being run in Rana Liaqat Ali College. In any of the remaining 87 government colleges, Science, Arts, Humanities, Trade, Commerce, Administration and Islamic Degree programs of any discipline including learning are not being offered.

In this regard, “Xerpac” contacted Professor Sulaiman Syal, Director of Government Colleges of Karachi Region and asked him that there is a delay in starting degree programs in colleges and why there has been no progress in this regard so far, to which he claimed that progress is being made. Yes, we are calling the meeting soon, we have been told by HEC to stop now, however, when he was asked why HEC has stopped, he could not give a satisfactory answer.

It is to be noted that after a delay of about four years, the Department of College Education had issued a pre-prepared draft policy to start BS four-year graduation in government colleges on October 4. A committee consisting of the directors of all the regions colleges and some principals was formed and the then Director General Colleges Sindh Prof. Salian Syal was appointed as the convener of this committee, however, not a single meeting of this committee was held in these three months.
On this situation, when “Express” contacted the Secretary College Education Sadaf Sheikh to find out the reason for depriving the government colleges of the degree program, to which he said that he was busy in the meeting, contact him in the evening. He did not receive the phone, SMS and WhatsApp were also sent to him in this regard, but the position of the department was not received on his behalf.