KARACHI, July 16: The spokesman for the Education and Literacy Department Sindh has said the Agha Khan University Educational Board (AKU-EB) had been established in conformity with national requirements and it already had a large number of schools affiliated with it. Regarding a news item, which appeared in a section of press, with respect to the AKU-EB, the spokesman said the views attributed to the chairman of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi were likely to cause misunderstanding among the public.

He clarified, in this regard, that the idea of the AKU-EB was to allow healthy competition to grow in the country and to raise standards of studies and examinations.

The spokesman further said the AKU-EB had been established under the AKU-EB Ordinance 2005 with jurisdiction extending to the whole of Pakistan and authority to offer examinations at the SSC and HSSC levels to private schools.

The board had also been empowered to expand the scope of its examinations, subject to authorisation by the federal or provincial authorities concerned, to government institutions, he added.—APP