LAHORE, July 2: Governor Khalid Maqbool has stressed that all public and private sector chartered universities should introduce a uniform students' weekly assessment and final examination system at the end of each academic session.

The governor was speaking at a meeting of private chartered universities' curriculum board at the Governor's House on Friday. Earlier, University of Central Punjab's faculty of information technology dean Javed Iqbal Zahid, who is also chairman of Inter-University Faculty Board for computer sciences, presented the details of revised courses of four-year BS mathematics and sciences, humanities and social sciences and computing and two-year MS courses.

The governor said the common objective of all 15 public sector universities and six private sector chartered universities should be imparting of quality education to their students.

In order to show excellence in imparting quality education, the governor stressed that the universities should make curriculum development a continuous event. He also called for developing a system that could take students through a comprehensive examination by external examiners.

The governor announced the constitution of a task force which would determine applied nature questions after the completion of technical courses. The meeting was also attended by Punjab higher education secretary Nazir Saeed, Punjab University's Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, Prof Dr Nayyar Raza Zaidi, Dr Syed Asad Husain, UET's Dr Shaiq A Haq.