UAF’s failure to display results on website irk students

Official says results were delayed due to lengthy checking process.

FAISALABAD: The administration of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad has failed to provide online access of results to the students, who are enrolled in various degree programmes. The results were supposed to be displayed on UAF’s website on May 29, 2017.

The fault in accessing online result facility is causing difficulties and frustration among thousands of students, who are left in the lurch.

In view of the situation, students are compelled to visit the UAF campus on a daily basis for acquiring the results. However, the teachers of the respective courses have also refused to provide information regarding the results. They said the administration has asked them to deposit marked papers with the controller of examination. They added the result would be displayed on the varsity’s website and hard copies would be provided to UAF officials.

The curious students are running from pillar to post for accruing the results while they also have to face the rude behavior of the security staff and other officials.

For the last three years, the UAF administration had been announcing that the results would be displayed on its website but this never came about.



While speaking to The Express Tribune, MPhil student Muhammad Yasser said, “I approached my teachers to see my exam scripts but they refused to show them.”

Oushna Fajer, a student of BSc (Honors) said, “I have been trying hard since May 29 to get the result though UAF’s website, but it is not displayed on it.”

She added, “I also contacted my course teacher about the results and he told me that he is not supposed to provide results to the students.” Fajer maintained, “My parents are angry with me and they think that I am hiding results from them.”

Similarly, another MPhil student Muhammad Ameen said, “As per UAF’s exam regulations, it is mandatory on part of the teachers to show the scripts of each examination to the students.”

He added, “The UAF’s exam regulations no 19 state the scripts of each examination shall be discussed with the students. However, the procedure is not being followed by the teachers.”

When contacted, Controller of Examination Professor Dr Abdul Wahid told The Express Tribune, “Online results could not be displayed on the website due to delays in checking.”

He added, “The results of 60% to 70% students will be completed by June 6 or 7.”

He said checking of results was imperative adding, “There are more than 1,18,000 entries of 1,700 courses and the process of displaying the entire result on the website is quite lengthy.”

To a question he admitted, “Although it is mandatory for teachers to show the script of the papers to the students,many teachers are not following this rule.”

Published in The Express Tribune, June 5^th, 2017.