KARACHI: Body to assess needs of colleges: Placement lists announced
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Sept 4: A committee of college principals and other experts would soon identify colleges and their requirements for declaring them as model colleges. Instead of establishing new colleges, it has been decided that the existing colleges would be made more effective in term of educational facilities, teaching material, laboratories and faculty, and about 50 colleges in the province would be made model colleges, said provincial education manager (colleges) Dr Mohammad Ali Shaikh on Monday while speaking at a press conference arranged for declaration of first three placement lists pertaining to admissions to first year classes of computer science and home economics groups.
The government, he said, had already allocated Rs200 million for enhancing the status and quality of education at these 50 colleges. Initially, each of the 18 towns of Karachi will get a model college, while the remaining 22 districts would get one model college each.
Regarding shortage of teachers in colleges, he said the colleges needed about 400 new teachers on vacant posts. By the time we get more teachers appointed by the government, it has been planned, with the approval of the provincial education minister to have a review of the colleges to know the faculty position, he added, saying colleges which have a surplus staff would have to relieve them so that they could be transferred to those colleges which were badly in need of teachers.
To a question, he said an exercise relating to rationalization of posts or reshuffling of teachers in colleges would begin soon after the ongoing process of admissions was over.
Regarding admissions, he said that in the coming year, efforts would be made to give more admissions in computer science at intermediate level in government colleges.
According to the details provided by the centralized admission committee, as many as 848 male students have been placed in computer science classes in 13 colleges which have a capacity for 859 such students.
A total of 677 women have been placed for admission to 11 colleges having a capacity for 705 admissions, while another 459 students have been placed for admission to one and lonely Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan College of Home Economics, which has a capacity of 600 admissions.
A total of 150 men and about 50 women applicants could not be entertained in computer science due to lower grades and non-availability of seats.
Keeping in view the available number of seats in colleges, it was decided to accommodates only those who have secured A-1, A, B or C grades in SSC, said Dr Shaikh, adding seats in computer science faculty would be offered at some more colleges from next year after some restructuring of faculty and facilities.
About the pre-engineering (male) list, he said it would be released on Sept 8 or 9, followed by pre-engineering (women), pre-medical (woman and pre-medical (male) which would be released from Sept 11 to 17.
He said that students not satisfied with their placement in the Home Economics or Computer Science could submit claims forms at claim centres set up in five male and five women colleges, where two of the admission Centralised Admission Policy (CAP) committee members will also be available to dispose of cases at the earliest.
The admissions list pertaining to Home Economics group opens at 745 marks and closes at 427 marks.
As many as 1010 male and 948 female students have applied for admissions to first year Computer Science classes.
The maximum and minimum marks in the admission/placement lists in the case of Computer Science group for different colleges are as follows:
Male; Islamia Science College (695 to 539), Degree College Gulshan-e-Iqbal (720-549), National College (685-525), Jamia Millia College (581-426), Superior Science College (586-492), Degree Science College Landhi/Korangi-6 (578-425), Degree Science College Malir Cantt (691-575), S M Science College (665-533), Degree Science College Lyari (547-428), Pakistan Ship-owners’ College (617-503), Degree College for Boys North Karachi (593-444), Degree College for Boys Asifabad (551-429) and College for Men Nazimabad (725-594).
Female; Abdullah College for Women (674-518), College for Women Nazimabad (643-551), Sir Syed College for Women (697-588), APWA College for Women (613-476), Girls College Gizri (680-429), College for Women Korangi-6 (667-426), Degree College Malir Cantt (701-576),St Lawrence Girls College (731-624), PECHS College for Women (798-661), Degree College Stadium Road (703-560) and Degree College Gulshan-e-Iqbal (609-499).
