Protesters said candidates were educated and had the required degrees and experience and that they should be exempted from sitting an NTS test. PHOTO: FILE
Candidates for the positions of humanities teachers at government universities staged a protest demonstration here on Wednesday against the government’s requirement of a National Testing Service test for candidates.
Demanding that the NTS test be waived off for university teachers, prospective teachers gathered in front of the office of the district coordination officer.
They said candidates were educated and had the required degrees and experience and that they should be exempted from sitting an NTS test.
They said that their protest would continue and expand if the test was not waived off. The protesters sat in front of the DCO’s office for over four hours before they dispersed.
Separately, Islamia University’s doctorate of veterinary medicine students staged a demonstration to register their protest against not being accredited from the Pakistan Veterinary Council.
The students gathered in front of the Islamia University Baghdad campus.
The protesting students said that their degrees were at stake due to non-accreditation in the last five years.
They questioned the Council’s aim behind letting the university enrol student in the veterinary department when, they said, it did not have any intentions of accrediting it. They said hundreds of students who had graduated from the university over the years had not been able to find job due to unaccredited degrees.
When asked, the university administration said that all formalities for getting the university accredited had been completed. They said the Council was causing the delay. However, they said, the university administration was in talks with the Council and that the situation will be resolved soon.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 16th, 2014.
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