Self-finance seats: DCET refuses to hold new entrance test
Students who wish to get admitted on these seats have been told to pay Rs400,000.
KARACHI:
The Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCET) found itself in the middle of a minor storm on Wednesday after only 24 students cleared the entrance test for the 100 self-finance seats being offered this year.
During a meeting, DCET’s acting principal, Dr Muhammad Ali Sheikh, said that all the self-finance seats that remain vacant till January 7 will be offered to applicants who had already cleared the admissions test, and had been put on the waiting list.
Students who wish to get admitted on these seats have been told to pay Rs400,000. No new test will be conducted for admissions to these seats, the officials decided
Meanwhile, DCET students belonging to the Students Action Committee boycotted examinations and protested against the college’s decision to not conduct any new admissions test. They blocked the New MA Jinnah Road and burnt tyres in front of the college.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 3rd, 2013.
The Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCET) found itself in the middle of a minor storm on Wednesday after only 24 students cleared the entrance test for the 100 self-finance seats being offered this year.
During a meeting, DCET’s acting principal, Dr Muhammad Ali Sheikh, said that all the self-finance seats that remain vacant till January 7 will be offered to applicants who had already cleared the admissions test, and had been put on the waiting list.
Students who wish to get admitted on these seats have been told to pay Rs400,000. No new test will be conducted for admissions to these seats, the officials decided
Meanwhile, DCET students belonging to the Students Action Committee boycotted examinations and protested against the college’s decision to not conduct any new admissions test. They blocked the New MA Jinnah Road and burnt tyres in front of the college.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 3rd, 2013.