{"id":12732,"date":"2010-06-03T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=12732"},"modified":"2010-06-03T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:06:10","slug":"karakoram-international-universitys-pack-of-blunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2010\/06\/03\/karakoram-international-universitys-pack-of-blunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Karakoram International University’s pack of blunders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Waseem Diro<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

During the last few decades the region of Gilgit-Baltistan has witnessed developments in every sphere of life, including education. Establishment of Karakuram International University (KIU) in 2001 provided an opportunity for local people to acquire higher education at their door step.<\/p>\n

For last nine years KIU has successfully graduated thousands of students eradicating illiteracy and illuminating the far flung areas with light of knowledge. We cannot expect KIU to yield results which are at par with experienced educational institutions, but one can expect a minimum level of standard in its normal operations. Unfortunately, it has failed to maintain it, which is obvious from its examination form for Bachelors. In this form the logo spells it \u201cKarakurum\u201d whereas in the main heading of same page name of university is written \u201cKarakoram\u201d. It shows sheer negligence or confusion of concerned authority regarding the name of university. The name of Gilgit-Baltistan has been changed by the university to \u201cGilgit-Balistan\u201d.<\/p>\n

The examination form is more a pack of blunders, than a document with clear guidance. I want to share snippets of mistakes from this form. The first line of instruction states \u201cplease read the instructions carefully on page 2. fill in the your handwritting (with blue ball point without cutting, over-writting and fluid). All relevant information, provided in this form and attach all the requird documents, incompelete form will not be entertained.\u201d Filling the form can be done by guessing not by understanding because there is nothing to understand. Nothing comes from nothingness. It would be imprudent to expect competent graduates from examination that has nothing to offer.<\/p>\n

Other examples are: \u201che\/she photograph is recent\u201d \u201cjurisiction\u201d for jurisdiction, \u201csupltemenay\u201d for supplementary, \u201che\/she is good moral character\u201d, \u201cdurring\u201d for during, \u201cThe deficiency of the attendance has been conducted by the undersigned\u201d, \u201che\/she date of birth is\u201d, \u201caccorance\u201d instead of accordance, \u201cphotograph not order by six months\u201d rather photograph older by six months, \u201cannuak\u201d for annual, \u2018free challan\u2019 instead fee challan ,\u2018institutions\u201d for instructions, \u201cappeated\u201d in place of appeared, \u201cYpur\u201d for your, \u201cpoll number\u201d as roll number, \u201cproceeded\u201d for prosecuted, \u201cfrom till the end of the examination\u201d, \u201caplied\u201d for applied, \u201cattaned\u201d instead of attained, \u201cwhen the time allowed has expired the answer book must be delivered to superintendent\u201d, \u201cGhanchi\u201d for district Ghanche and leaving out Hunza-Nagar from the list of districts.<\/p>\n

A golden example of instruction provided by KIU examination form is: \u201cNo candidate without special permission of officer incharge shall leave his\/her seat or the examination from till the end of examination. No candidate shall speak if it be necessary for the candidate to communicate with the superintendent, he\/she shall sand up in he\/she place and officer in charge will see to he\/she wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are just errors that lie at the tip of ice berg under which lies mass of myriad errors, inconsistencies even in inconsistency, formatting and numbering. The prime objective of university is to generate knowledge and award degrees to students after assessing their capacities. When the \u201cCompetent\u201d authority of university make such blunders in the very prologue of assessment, one can only guess the quality of assessment made by university.<\/p>\n

Although, the examination form has been filled by premier educational institutions of the region, nobody highlighted shortcoming of the university. When the whole society and state is in decay it is not fair to expect an institution to function perfectly. In the case of KIU proper mechanism, procedure and efficient management is missing. Therefore, I request Higher Education Commission to establish a monitoring system that can evaluate performance and quality of the universities in different spheres. Only a vigilant society and effective monitoring can prevent us from falling into abyss of mediocrity in the highly meritocratic world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Waseem Diro During the last few decades the region of Gilgit-Baltistan has witnessed developments in every sphere of life, including education. Establishment of Karakuram International University (KIU) in 2001 provided an opportunity for local people to acquire higher education at their door step. For last nine years KIU has successfully graduated thousands of students …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,9,4781,48,160],"class_list":["post-12732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-baltistan","tag-gilgit","tag-gilgit-baltistan","tag-karakuram-international-university","tag-kiu"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}