KARACHI, Sept 2: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) Karachi has planned strict action against those affiliated colleges which have failed to show good results or maintain the minimum number of admissions as per the board’s criterion.

Speaking at a ceremony to announce results of the HSC examination on Saturday, BIE Chairman Prof Iftikhar H. Zaidi said the board was concerned over the poor performance of some colleges in the public and private sectors. He said the board was already working towards disaffiliating the colleges that would fail in getting less than 10 per cent of its students passed in the HSC examinations 2006.

He said the board would definitely withdraw recognition of or affiliation with the colleges which had less than 25 per cent students in any faculty and had also failed to meet other criteria for affiliation.

Mr Zaidi said that as many as 24 educational institutions were disaffiliated for not meeting the board’s rules or running deficient of qualified and experienced teaching staff or facilities.

Later, BIE chief appreciated performance of the candidates who secured top three positions in the examinations.

Meanwhile, the position-holders of HSC Pre-Medical examinations, in their interviews on Saturday, maintained that the quality and sincerity of teachers and the overall discipline of any institution played the key role in grooming up students. Government should pay special attention to the private sector institutions which lacked experienced teachers and related facilities.

Madiha Kanwal (Seat No.90968), has secured first position and wants to become a doctor, said that she worked hard at college and also took tuition at coaching centres to see the success. She was of the view that intermediate class textbooks and curricula of Physics and Chemistry needed improvement.

Shanza Waqar (Seat No.85405, who has secured second position and also wants to become a doctor, said that she had secured 89 per cent in matriculation examinations and had now got 87.55 per cent marks in HSC. She said she could not have secured the position had she been at some other college. However, she said, one thing was clear that her college, which had been denationalised by the Sindh government last year, did not possess experienced or senior teachers.

Rabia Anwar (Seat No.88339), who shared second position with Ms Shanza, said that perhaps she was the first student of her college to have secured a position in Pre-Medical examinations. I switched over from the Cambridge System to the HSC System in order to get a higher percentage, she said, adding that the O-levelers were deprived of certain pass percentage when they were issued equivalence under the local system.

The third position holder, Hiba Asad (Seat No.85319), said that girl students normally secured positions in Pre-Medical examinations as they worked hard and had an aptitude for that. Talking about some civic problem, she said that frequent power breakdowns upset the students preparing for examinations very much.

The position-holders of HSC (Home Economics) 2006, whose results were declared some time back, were also present at the ceremony. They were Fatema Hatim Ghadyali (1st), Samina Badar (2nd) and Areeba Fuad Siddiqui (3rd).