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CAP committee fails into admission deadline
Sep 5th
CAP committee fails to meet admission deadline
KARACHI, Sept 3: The deadline fixed by the Sindh education department for completing the process of admissions to first year classes in government educational institutions will end on Saturday with no sign in sight how many more days will be required to accomplish the entire process of admissions and when the new academic session for the new students will begin.According to a Centralised Admission Policy’s (CAP) brochure, the process of admissions to first year classes in the city’s government colleges and higher secondary schools was scheduled to be completed by Sept 4 and the new academic session for the fresh first year students was to commence on Sept 6.
However, since the CAP committee which has been assigned the task of completing the admissions process has not yet been able to issue the placement lists, the question of new academic session’s beginning from Sept 6 did not even arise.
More than one-and-a-half month of thousands of fresh matriculates have already been wasted since the announcement of their results and yet all the over 70,000 candidates who have applied for admissions to first year classes in the city’s public sector colleges and higher secondary schools under More >
Re-examination of MSc Physics, Part-I, Paper-III
Jul 26th
LAHORE: (Sunday, July 25, 2010): Punjab University Punjab University Examinations Department’s partial suppression notification regarding date sheet of MA/MSc, Part-I, Annual Examination 2010, the candidates of MSc Physics, Part-I will re-take their written examination in Paper-III (Quantum Mechanics) on August 2, 2010. The same paper of the candidates, conducted on June 30, 2010, will be treated as cancelled. A notification has been issued in this regard.
Sex education in schools curriculum
Jul 24th
Sex education must be made part of curriculum: experts Karachi, July 24: With a majority of the victims in rape cases turning out to be minors and the accused culprits in their 20′s, civil society members have expressed deep concern over the emerging trend of such incidents.
Rukhsana Siddique, rehabilitation officer of War against Rape (WAR), has called for the introduction of sex education in schools. “The state should pay attention towards the current situation and start programmes to educate the public, especially the youth about this issue. Sex education should immediately be started in schools and the media should also play its role to raise awareness.”
She said that the society is drifting from basic morals and family values as the culprits are mostly family members, a relative or an acquaintance.
Suhail Ahmed Abro of the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) corroborated and said, “There was a time when a home was said to be the safest place for a child but not any more. The family institution has disintegrated.”
He said that since an acquaintance has easy access to a rape target and considers them as an easy prey; therefore, they are becoming involved in such activities.
“The More >
