Now the education managers have decided not to implement the new course programmes, even if prepared, and follow the Punjab University syllabus for this year.
Since the start of new academic session of 2012-2014, the students of B.A/B.Sc Part-I have been studying old syllabus of Punjab University despite that the colleges have been disaffiliated from the university. Neither the teachers nor the students know the road map leading to the destination of syllabus or course outline, paper pattern and examinations of the new university that is Quid-I-Azam University (QAU).
It’s important to be mentioned that the capital colleges got affiliation with the Quid-i-Azam University (QAU) in August 2012 and were detached from the Punjab University after devolution.
According to officials, lack of communication between the university and the colleges is one of the root causes of many problems. At present, almost all the affairs are being dealt through Ministry of Capital Administration and Development (MCAD) while colleges have little communication regarding courses of teaching, introduction of new disciplines and even the change in the present disciplines. According to them the role of the ministry should be eliminated and all the academic activities should be dealt by the colleges in collaboration with QAU as per previous practice with Punjab University.
‘It was supposed that the Ministry of CAD would make it possible in a matter of weeks but unfortunately the whole long year rolled away and the result is good for nothing. Had there been no channel of the ministry, probably it would have been easier to get affiliation with QAU. The involvement of the ministry practically lingered on the process of weeks for years’ remarked spokesperson for Federal Government College Teachers Association (FGCTA) Professor Tahir Mahmood. So far as curriculum is concerned, it has not been notified till today and the colleges have not been intimated in this regard. Consequently, there exits a lot of confusion among the teachers taking graduation level classes, he added.
Officials also alleged that incompetent persons sitting in administrative offices, exercised favoritism and inducted those who were not suitable to act as members in the Board of Studies that also caused delays. ‘Even those who are going to be retired the next year have been made members for three years tenure.
There is no doubt in it that a retiring person busy in preparing pension papers will be least interested in other activities. As a result nothing is in concrete regarding the syllabus and paper pattern etc’, they added.
A senior professor on condition of anonymity informed, “It is a matter of concern that qualifications and designations of some of the college members in the board have been intentionally changed to prove their suitability and to fit them in the system. An Assistant Professor has been titled Associate Professor and a few college teachers have been mentioned as Doctors while they do not hold Ph.D Degrees’
Dr Eatzaz Ahmad, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences at QAU, who has been dealing with the affairs maintained that the delay was not unnecessary, as course outlines of over 25 subjects had to be prepared and it takes time, as the university has to maintain its standards also. ‘The delay was inevitable but the affiliation could have been postponed till next year or the university should have been informed prior to the affiliation to prepare the study programme’.
He said the course outlines of the subjects have almost been completed and will be notified hopefully by the Syndicate of the university by the next month but it will be implemented from the next academic session and students’ time and energies will not let waste.
Spokesperson and Joint Education Advisor of the Ministry of CAD, Rafique Tahir, when contacted, said all the universities follow the same course outline approved by the Higher Education Commission and there is no change in the syllabus. He opined that the approval of course outline from the Board of Studies is merely a legal requirement and if any changes are made in the course outline it will be implemented from the next academic year and this year the colleges would follow the same programme of studies that they used to follow during their affiliation with the Punjab University.
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