The two stories - “Teachers’ highhandedness in universities” and “A bitter reality” - should be eye-openers for the system.
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Salam Editor,
The two stories - “Teachers’ highhandedness in universities” and “A bitter reality” - should be eye-openers for the system. These issues have been highlighted so many times that I’m actually surprised no action has been taken so far and that the perpetrators roam guilt-free, ready to pounce upon another victim. If the youngsters aren’t going to get good education, how is this society ever going to improve?! They won’t grow up to be responsible citizens when all they’ve learnt is to be absent, come late to work, play the blame-game, favour the undeserving over the rest, and most of all be fearless in these actions since there’s no one to hold you accountable. What’s taught at home should be reiterated by formal schooling, and this period itself should be one that’s enjoyed thoroughly, but I don’t think the new generations are ever going to have such an experience. Even the ones enrolled in the most expensive schools of our country.
Quratulain Alam
Dear Editor,
M.S’s article in Us magazine dated 15/09/2017 has opened my own wounds as a father of a young talented girl. I feel compelled to share my story in the hope that it may result in some remedial steps at college/university level.
My daughter was studying fine arts at the most prestigious institution of our country. Throughout the first three years of her course she passed every semester with distinction and was even awarded scholarship.
Unfortunately, in the last year of her study while doing her major in miniature art, she had some difference of opinion about her project with her teacher who belonged to a very influential family and was also related to some minister. The teacher became so annoyed that despite my daughter’s excellent performance, which was acknowledged by the external examiner (who gave her 63/100), she failed my daughter in the final assessment. When the final result was announced, my daughter passed all subjects with distinction but she was failed in the major subject. Her result was so atrocious that it immediately triggered a protest by all her fellow students, so much so that the worthy principal had to intervene. The result of my daughter as well as that of all other aggrieved students was scrutinized. My daughter was declared successful with distinction. Needless to say that all this episode was very traumatic for myself and my daughter.
I would like to mention that I have been working as an examiner for the last many years. Here I would like to quote the Instructions to Examiners which asks all examiners to “(i) try to find out through the examination what the candidate / student knows and not what he/she does not know” and (ii) be positive and sympathetic towards candidate / student “.
Lastly, since such grievances of students are now becoming quite common, I would suggest that there must be a forum for their redress independent of the relevant institution. One such forum could be the Office of Provincial Ombudsman.
Fayyaz Mahmood, Lahore
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Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 36, Number 470
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