Further education: KU admissions to start Nov 11
Now that the Intermediate exams are over, most students are now waiting for universities to open admissions. The University of Karachi has decided to divide its admission process for the January 2012 session in three phases.
The first phase is set to kick off on November 11. This will be for those students applying for the D-Pharmacy course and other courses which require an entry test. Candidates will be able to submit their forms till November 18 after which the tests will be held from November 27 to December 2.
The second phase will start from November 21 and will be for merit-based admissions in the four-year Bachelors in Studies and three-year honours programme. The last date to submit forms will be November 28. The last phase of admissions will be held from December 7 to December 14 and will be for candidates pursuing a Masters degree.
University officials are expecting more than 20,000 applications for 54 departments and 17 research institutions. They added that only 4,500 seats were available out of which 2,000 were for the Masters programme. “We have revived the honours programme this year, while the current four-year Bachelor’s programme will run parallel to the Master’s programme from now on,” said director of admissions Dr Khalid Iraqi.
The honours programme was reinstated by the KU academic council a few days ago. A member of the council said that they had decided to do so to help students after they graduated.
According to economics student Sabir Bashir, the administration should have done this earlier. The candidates can get their admission forms from 16 specific United Bank Limited branches for Rs500, the admission forms for the test based departments are for Rs1,000.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 28th, 2011.
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This coming from the institute that rewards Rehman Malik?
Post-secondary institutions could benefit from better communication and cooperation. Schools must be more vocal about their goals, and they should continually ask students what they want to gain from being at school. The problem is that a student who has no motivation will not learn, regardless of the quality of the programs.
A student who is passionate about something—it could be anything—will go on to perform great things, even if this student who is passionate is not of top intelligence. Communication is key, and I think administrators and executives could improve the quality of education by developing students with a purpose for the future.