Punjab Board: Private students can sit science exams in 2012
Private schools hope the decision will not be reversed.
LAHORE:
Private candidates sitting for matriculation examinations of the Punjab boards will now be allowed to take examinations for the sciences, said Adeeb Jawedani while speaking with The Express Tribune on Sunday.
Jawedani, the central president of the All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association (APPSMA), said the decision was taken on Saturday in a meeting between the Punjab Board Committee of Chairmen (PBCC) and the APPSMA.
The decision will allow students to take science subjects in 2012 when they sit for their matric exams. However, the decision has been made for one year.
“As many as 1,000,000 students in Punjab are annually deprived of the opportunity to take science subjects,” Jawedani said adding “this is simply unfortunate and unjust.”
He added that the ‘future’ of many private candidates was at stake.
PBCC chairman Syed Mumtaz Hussain Shah announced that there would be a requirement for private candidates to obtain a ‘practical work certificate’ from some school in order to sit for science subjects.
The decision comes days before the next hearing, scheduled in January, for a petition that was filed by the APPSMA in the Lahore High Court (LHC) demanding that private candidates be allowed to sit for science subjects.
“This isn’t the first time we have filed such a petition” Jawedani said. He added that the APPSMA had been getting decisions in their favour for the past seven years but the PBCC had not so far implemented this as a policy decision.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 26th, 2011.
Private candidates sitting for matriculation examinations of the Punjab boards will now be allowed to take examinations for the sciences, said Adeeb Jawedani while speaking with The Express Tribune on Sunday.
Jawedani, the central president of the All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association (APPSMA), said the decision was taken on Saturday in a meeting between the Punjab Board Committee of Chairmen (PBCC) and the APPSMA.
The decision will allow students to take science subjects in 2012 when they sit for their matric exams. However, the decision has been made for one year.
“As many as 1,000,000 students in Punjab are annually deprived of the opportunity to take science subjects,” Jawedani said adding “this is simply unfortunate and unjust.”
He added that the ‘future’ of many private candidates was at stake.
PBCC chairman Syed Mumtaz Hussain Shah announced that there would be a requirement for private candidates to obtain a ‘practical work certificate’ from some school in order to sit for science subjects.
The decision comes days before the next hearing, scheduled in January, for a petition that was filed by the APPSMA in the Lahore High Court (LHC) demanding that private candidates be allowed to sit for science subjects.
“This isn’t the first time we have filed such a petition” Jawedani said. He added that the APPSMA had been getting decisions in their favour for the past seven years but the PBCC had not so far implemented this as a policy decision.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 26th, 2011.