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KARACHI, March 15: A meeting of the provincial education department on Saturday resolved to link the promotion cases of secondary school and college teachers with their performances in the board examination works.
Sources in the department said it was agreed that all the promotion cases of secondary school teachers, subject specialists and college teachers would be sent to their educational boards in the future for their comments before finalizing the cases.
During the meeting, which was convened to finalize the procedures for the conduct of Information Technology as an optional subject in the annual exams 2003, education secretary Nazar Hussain Mahar who presided over the meeting, was informed that it was becoming difficult to carry out assessment and invigilation works pertaining to annual and supplementary examinations in a befitting way as a number of teachers avoided assignments given to them by the boards.
In view of the poor participation by senior college teachers, it was suggested that the government should observe the provisions of having comments about teachers’ performance and quality in regard to examination assignments as required in annual confidential reports.
The meeting, attended by chairmen and controllers of different educational boards, also reached a decision according to which all the boards should identify the list of individuals who are involved in cheating in examinations, and provide it to the department.
The education department would issue orders clearly mentioning that invigilation is a compulsory duty for each teacher, lecturer and professor. The boards should put the responsibility on the principal, headmaster and centre superintendent regarding cheating in exams, it was decided.
The boards have been asked to ensure 75 per cent attendance of the students and constitute committees to check attendance record and visit the examination centres. The board would award cash incentives to the best institution, best principal, best internal and external centre superintendents.
IT SUBJECT: In regard to IT subject examination at the intermediate level, it was reiterated that the exam would be optional as decided by the government last month.
Since the students have already submitted their examination forms to the board, the meeting decided that the education boards should acquire a fresh declaration from the students of second- year, appearing in the 2003 annual examinations, in connection with the subject.
It was also decided that all principals of colleges would be contacted by the boards to get the willingness of students to appear in the exams 2002-2003 for IT as an optional subject.
Each board of intermediate education would offer one pentium- IV computer to each of the ten top position-holders for IT papers.
It was learnt that students aspiring to appear in the IT optional examination would have to inform the education boards afresh, following which the boards would arrange for IT theory and practical examinations along with other papers. As decided earlier, students taking the IT examination would be issued a separate certificate on their completion of the IT course, said a source in the board.
