LAHORE, Jan 27: The Punjab government is considering to establish a separate education board for the students of private educational institutions.

The board will introduce a system of testing the mental abilities of Junior and Senior Cambridge students so as to establish a standard of their marks against those students who pass matriculation and intermediate examinations.

This was stated by Education Secretary Sibtain Fazle Haleem at a meeting of the Aitchison College’s board of governors which was presided over by Governor Khalid Maqbool here on Monday.

The governor earlier inaugurated 16 residential apartments constructed at a cost of Rs25 million for college staff members.

The secretary announced the constitution of a separate board for private institutions after the meeting was informed that A-level Senior Cambridge students were at the most given 936 marks as equivalent numbers, although they studied one year more than their intermediate counterparts. In intermediate examinations, there were records of getting as high as 970 marks.

Earlier, the meeting decided to give admission to 10 students to the college every year who would get first position in the middle standard examinations. The college would bear their expenses from the Endowment Fund.

The governor said children from Sindh, Balochistan, the NWFP, Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir should be encouraged to seek admission to the Aitchison College.

He said the college should be made a centre of excellence so that highly competitive education could be imparted at the home ground thus preventing students from going abroad.