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LAHORE, Dec 18: Students of the Fatima Memorial Medical College and the Allama Iqbal Medical College staged a protest demonstration against “lack of transparency” in University of Health Sciences’ examination system, in front of the Lahore Press Club on Thursday.
The students were holding placards bearing inscriptions against the UHS, its examination system and the recently-declared MBBS results.
Their representatives said the recent MBBS results had sent a wave of unrest among students and their parents. They said the UHS had declared the poorest ever results in the history of AIMC, FMMC and Quaid-i-Azam Medical College Bahawalpur. They claimed that the university had declared 90 per cent students fail in the annual examination and showed zero per cent results in the supplementary examination. They also said the UHS was not issuing detailed marksheets to them.
They demanded that the government should direct the UHS to get all papers re-evaluated by impartial examiners. They also demanded that the UHS should restore grace marks as was the practice in other universities of the province.
NATIONAL TEXTILE UNIVERSITY: National Textile University Faisalabad students also staged a protest demonstration in front of the press club against the control of Aptma on the university.
The students, who were holding placards, said the university was producing graduates to run the textile industry. They said caretaker prime minister Moeen Qureshi had handed it over to the Aptma in the early 90s. They said the university fees had now increased manifold as students were now supposed to pay Rs7,800 as against a Rs800 fee in 1992.
The students also alleged that no new machinery had been inducted in the university since 1992.
They said the hefty grants of JICA and Higher Education Commission had also lapsed as the university was under the control of Aptma.
They said the students along with university faculty and non-academic staff had been protesting peacefully since Dec 1. The university dean, Dr Muhammad Zubair, had closed the university on Dec 12 for an indefinite period.
They demanded that the national university should be run like other public sector universities. The government should constitute a new board of governors for it, withdraw the increase in self-finance seats and bring its fee structure on a par with that in other public sector universities.
They also demanded that the government should immediately isolate Aptma from the university affairs.
