Educators and education experts have strongly opposed and criticised the proposal for creation of separate army secondary and intermediate boards and expressed fear that the change would provide favourable opportunity to army institutions' students for occupying the seats in medical and engineering colleges.
They said that marking and examination system of federal boards is very poor which provides incapable students to get high marks in the exams compared to Punjab boards of intermediate and secondary education.
Experts feared that as Punjab government has already decided to abolish the entry examination system it would further favour the army institutions' students in getting admissions in professional colleges at wide scale.
Earlier, Federal Secretary Education Shafqat Ezdi during his Multan visit two days back disclosed that Federal Education Ministry was seriously considering separate creation of army secondary and intermediate education boards but his announcement created panic among the educators.
The Federal Secretary also contradicted about removal of Aga Khan education board. They out-rightly rejected the proposal, declared that it would reduce the size of civilian students.
Majority of senior educators strongly opposed the creation of separate army boards and said that army institutions' students by getting poor marking benefits would occupy at least 60 percent to 70 percent seats in professional colleges. The experts opined that
Punjab education boards of secondary and intermediate education are presently responsible for marking, setting question papers and conducting exams of army institutions.
The Punjab education's marking system favours only eligible, hardworking and bright candidates in very tight marking schedule compared to prevailing marking system in federal boards.
Thus it would be quite impossible for the Punjab education boards' candidates to get admissions in professional colleges include medical and engineering colleges due to army's created education boards candidates.
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