KARACHI, Aug 11 Not a single student belonging to as many as 19 colleges and higher secondary schools of the city was declared successful in the Higher Secondary Certificate, Part-II, Science group (pre-medical) annual examinations-2010 results which were announced by the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Tuesday.

Statistics provided by the BIEK shows that the educational institutions whose performance remained abysmal in the examinations include four government colleges, seven public sector higher secondary schools and eight private colleges.

Moreover, there are 15 colleges and higher secondary schools whose not more than 10 per cent students passed in the examinations.

These institutions include 10 government colleges, three private higher secondary schools and one private college and one private higher secondary school.

The educational institutions whose pass percentage in the examinations remained zero per cent are Govt Degree College for Boys (7D/2), North Karachi; MW Inter College; Govt Girls Higher Secondary School, Green-belt Area, Mehmoodabad; Pakistan Steel Mashal Intermediate College; Govt Degree Science, Arts and Commerce College, Murad Memon Goth; Liaquat College of Management and Sciences; Ashrafi Intermediate College, Gulshan-i-Iqbal; Govt Degree Science College, Malir, Saudabad; Govt Girls Higher Secondary School, Landhi No.1; Govt Boys Higher Secondary School No-2, 'K' Area Korangi; Allama Iqbal Govt Boys Higher Secondary School, Sohrab Goth; Govt Boys and Girls Higher Secondary School, Haji Nathoo, Malir; Govt Comprehensive Boys Higher Secondary School, Korangi-3; Recknor's College of Management and Computer Science; MTI Higher Secondary School; Tariq Bin Ziad College, Shah Faisal Colony; Govt Degree Boys College, Sham Pir, Baba Bhit; Dhaka College of Information Technology and Govt Boys Comprehensive Higher Secondary School, Azizabad, Federal B' Area.

Show-cause notices

When BIEK chairman Prof Anwar Ahmed Zai was contacted by Dawn to know what action the board would take against these schools and colleges, he said that initially their affiliation with the BIEK would be suspended and if the management of such institutions failed to give any satisfactory answer in reply to the show-cause notices which were being issued to them then their affiliation would certainly be cancelled.

“Currently an exercise was under way at the board to check whether the educational institutions whose students' pass percentage was zero in the 2009 annual examinations and it remained the same in the 2010 examinations also,” he said, adding that if it was found that an institution's pass percentage had remained zero in both the examinations, then stern action would definitely be taken against them in accordance with the board's rules.

Prof Zai said that although the BIEK could suspend affiliation of any educational institution whose students' pass percentage in exams remained below 30 per cent, most government colleges whose performance in the past year's examinations remained abysmal had attributed it to a shortage of teachers.

He, however, said that all those educational institutions whose students' pass percentage in the 2010 examinations remained 30 per cent or below would be asked to improve their performance through show-cause notices which soon be issued to them.