Matric board office seeks imposition of Section 144 at examination centres
The Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK).
Finalising arrangements for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Annual Examination 2021 (matriculation exams), the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) has requested the district administration to enforce the Section 144 at the examination centres.
The matric board has set up set around 438 examination centers across the city for the examinations that will start on July 5. For the convenience of students, the list of centres has been released on the board s website.
According to a statement issued, BSEK Chairman Syed Sharaf Ali Shah has directed the invigilators and examiners to strictly enforce the Covid-19 standard operating procedures during the exam hours. He has also directed that all instructions regarding SOPs should be displayed outside the examination centres.
Pandemic, unprepared authorities have made 2020 Sindh’s worst academic year
Karachi
Students coming out of a school. File photo
The year 2020 saw a global closure of educational institutions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, making it especially the worst possible academic year for Sindh, with students, parents, teachers and non-teaching staff suffering stress as well as academic and financial losses.
The authorities concerned were completely unprepared for the situation and, thus, failed to implement an alternative system that could provide all the students of the country with equal access to education.
Though educators and senior officials tried to introduce innovative solutions for education and to adopt new approaches to transform the system, all such attempts bore no fruit. In Sindh alone, some nine million children were promoted to the next grades without having to take any exam. In Karachi, around 60,000 students were unable to get an admission in college because the numbe
Pandemic, unprepared authorities make 2020 worst academic year
National
December 28, 2020
KARACHI: The year 2020 saw a global closure of educational institutions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, making it especially the worst possible academic year for Sindh, with students, parents, teachers and non-teaching staff suffering stress as well as academic and financial losses.
The authorities concerned were completely unprepared for the situation and, thus, failed to implement an alternative system that could provide all the students of the country with equal access to education.
Though educators and senior officials tried to introduce innovative solutions for education and to adopt new approaches to transform the system, all such attempts bore no fruit.