KU GPA system confusion, MA registration date
Karachi University fails to remove confusion over GPA system
Karachi, Mar 09: Confusion still prevails about the application of the newly-introduced grade point average (GPA) system for the students of the University of Karachi in spite of a notification issued by the KU administration announcing that the 2007 batch will be examined according to the old grading system.
Students of various departments belonging to the 2007 batch currently studying in their fifth semester have been protesting for the last fortnight over the introduction of the GPA system in the middle of their courses. However, the university administration has not yet been able to take a concrete decision whether such students will be required to take their mid-term examinations or whether their mark-sheets of third and fourth semesters will be updated in accordance with the old grading system.
It is interesting to note that certain students of the batch 2007 have not yet been issued their fourth semester's marks-sheets despite being promoted to the fifth semester. Their third semester's marks-sheets have been prepared in accordance with the GPA system.
Attributing the chaos and confusion to the KU semester cell's reluctance to update their third semesters' marks-sheets in accordance with old system, the protesting students apprehend that more than 50 per cent students could be reverted to their previous semester, which they had already cleared unless their marks-sheets of third year were updated and fourth semester's marks-sheets prepared under the old system.
They maintained that since the KU Registrar, Prof Mohammad Rais Alvi, had already announced that the students admitted to the BS first year (2007 batch) would be examined as per the old grading system mentioned in the KU's 2007 prospectus, it was mandatory upon the semester cell to update their third semester's mark-sheets and prepare those of the fourth semester strictly in accordance with the old system.
They held that the condition of appearing in the mid-term examinations did not apply to the students of 2007 batch because the KU registrar had already notified that the students of BS first year 2008 and 2009 would be examined under the GPA system as specified in the admission prospectus for the year 2008 and 2009.
The protesting students have urged Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad, who is also chancellor of the public sector universities in the province, to intervene into the matter by directing the KU authorities to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Dawn
MA registration date
Karachi: The University of Karachi's external registration unit on Sunday announced the date for the submission of registration forms for MA, Double-MA and improvement of division.
According to a KU release, the registration forms can be obtained from and submitted at the NBP/UBL counter at the Silver Jubilee Gate from March 9 to 14 with a fee of Rs1,800. Change of subject will also be allowed on the prescribed fee of Rs400.
A separate announcement said that the department of International Relations would hold a workshop from March 17.
Chairman of the department Prof Moonis Ahmar said that the two-day conference on "Early-warning systems: potential for crisis management and regional cooperation" had been organised in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation. KU Vice-Chancellor Prof Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui will preside over the inaugural session.
Karachi University fails to remove confusion over GPA system
Karachi, Mar 09: Confusion still prevails about the application of the newly-introduced grade point average (GPA) system for the students of the University of Karachi in spite of a notification issued by the KU administration announcing that the 2007 batch will be examined according to the old grading system.
Students of various departments belonging to the 2007 batch currently studying in their fifth semester have been protesting for the last fortnight over the introduction of the GPA system in the middle of their courses. However, the university administration has not yet been able to take a concrete decision whether such students will be required to take their mid-term examinations or whether their mark-sheets of third and fourth semesters will be updated in accordance with the old grading system.
It is interesting to note that certain students of the batch 2007 have not yet been issued their fourth semester's marks-sheets despite being promoted to the fifth semester. Their third semester's marks-sheets have been prepared in accordance with the GPA system.
Attributing the chaos and confusion to the KU semester cell's reluctance to update their third semesters' marks-sheets in accordance with old system, the protesting students apprehend that more than 50 per cent students could be reverted to their previous semester, which they had already cleared unless their marks-sheets of third year were updated and fourth semester's marks-sheets prepared under the old system.
They maintained that since the KU Registrar, Prof Mohammad Rais Alvi, had already announced that the students admitted to the BS first year (2007 batch) would be examined as per the old grading system mentioned in the KU's 2007 prospectus, it was mandatory upon the semester cell to update their third semester's mark-sheets and prepare those of the fourth semester strictly in accordance with the old system.
They held that the condition of appearing in the mid-term examinations did not apply to the students of 2007 batch because the KU registrar had already notified that the students of BS first year 2008 and 2009 would be examined under the GPA system as specified in the admission prospectus for the year 2008 and 2009.
The protesting students have urged Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad, who is also chancellor of the public sector universities in the province, to intervene into the matter by directing the KU authorities to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Dawn
MA registration date
Karachi: The University of Karachi's external registration unit on Sunday announced the date for the submission of registration forms for MA, Double-MA and improvement of division.
According to a KU release, the registration forms can be obtained from and submitted at the NBP/UBL counter at the Silver Jubilee Gate from March 9 to 14 with a fee of Rs1,800. Change of subject will also be allowed on the prescribed fee of Rs400.
A separate announcement said that the department of International Relations would hold a workshop from March 17.
Chairman of the department Prof Moonis Ahmar said that the two-day conference on "Early-warning systems: potential for crisis management and regional cooperation" had been organised in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation. KU Vice-Chancellor Prof Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui will preside over the inaugural session.