A single member bench comprising Justice Syed Akhlaq Ahmed after hearing the counsel for the petitioner dismissed the case.
During the course of hearing, Farhat Nawaz Lodhi, the counsel for Hammad Anwar Butt, a student of GSIS, requested the court to give directions to Cambridge University to revise the students’ grades according to the “forecast grade system” of GSIS, which was already the “defined procedure of Cambridge university.”But the bench responded that it could not do so as the university was outside its jurisdiction. The legal counsel of the petitioner argued that notice could be issued through the Ministry of Education or Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Talking to The Express Tribune , Lodhi said that they will file an Intra Court Appeal (ICA) against the decision.
Hammad Anwar Butt had filed the petition on November 15 seeking revision in the grades according to the forecast grade system. Sixty-seven students from the GSIS, who took the exam in June 2010, were told by Cambridge International Examination (CIE) that their results had been delayed. When the school administration protested, a result was sent awarding 29 students the U grade, ten students E grade, 11 D grade, six B grade and one student an A+ grade.
The school administration protested these results, after which CIE sent another result. This time, nine students were given U grades, five E grades, 12 D grades, nine C grades, 19 B grades, six A grades and nine A+ grades.
Deputy director qualification University of Cambridge International Examination Anne Gutch and Director Assessment Services Di Palmer, in separate emails, acknowledged that the loss of papers was “unsatisfactory and very upsetting,” adding that “while it is extremely rare, it is also a fact of the life that when we are handling millions of scripts each year, it does happen from time to time that a very small number are lost in transit.”
GSIS turned down CIE and British Council’s offer to allow students to reappear in the exam without paying the fee According to the petitioner, Cambridge university was compelled to follow the forecast grade system of GSIS in case of misplacing the transcripts. But in this case, the procedure was not followed.The counsel for the petitioner said CIE did not want to resolve the issue and students should not have to take the exam again.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2010.
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