Diploma delayed: Physiotherapy graduates await degrees from KU

Degrees will be awarded within two weeks

KARACHI:

As many as 80 Liaquat National School of Physiotherapy graduates await their degrees from the Karachi University (KU) for over two years now.

These graduates of the batches 2013 and 2014 were enrolled in the one-year deficiency programme to convert their four-year physiotherapy degrees into a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) - an incentive offered by the school in affiliation with the KU, explained Syed Hasan Abbas Rizvi, principal at the school that was established in the year 1980.

“The first batch of the programme was graduated in December 2013, followed by the second a year later,” he said. “But all of them have yet to receive their degrees.” He felt that KU should stop dilly-dallying as the students have already suffered a great deal.

For his part, KU examinations controller Dr Muhammad Arshad Azmi told The Express Tribune that the university hoped to award degrees to the graduates in the next two weeks. “The university intended to redesign the degree certificates for this new programme but was unable to do so due to the workload,” he said. “The degrees will now be awarded on the old format in order to save the students from further hardship.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 1^st, 2015.