Examinations: Education boards review system

ISLAMABAD: A two-day conference of all educational boards of provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) started on Thursday to standardise the existing examination system. The conference organised by Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Board (FBISE) was being attended by controllers of examinations and IT heads of all educational boards of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and AJK and G-B an FBISE press release said. The event is part of a project titled “Modernisation and Standardisation of Examination System” introduced by ministry of planning, development and reforms through ministry of federal education and training. The objective of the project is to standardise the educational system in the country by studying the rules, procedures, process and removing anomalies in the system.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 30^th, 2016.