KARACHI: The Secretary Colleges briefed the audience regarding objectives of the meeting. The academic session of the schools will commence from 1st April 2018, while the academic sessions of the Cambridge O & A level and the colleges will commence from 1st August. The students from class 1 to III will be promoted to next class on the basis of the performance and assessment.
This was unanimously decided at a meeting of Steering Committee on Education held at Sindh Assembly Building Committee Room here on Monday. The meeting was presided over by Provincial Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar. It was also attended by Secretary Colleges Pervaiz Ahmed Seehar, Special Secretary Education Schools Nasir Abbas, chairmen of all educational boards, Director General Private Institutions, representatives of private institutions, officers, and educationists.
It was also decided at the meeting that examinations up to class VIII would be completed by 10th March and result would be announced by 31st March. Theory exams of class IX and X shall commence from 29th March and their results will be announced by 15th July by all Boards of Sindh, while the Board of Secondary Education Karachi will announce the result by 31st July. Examinations of XI and XII will commence from 24th April and XII result will be announced by all Boards except Karachi by 31st August while Karachi Board would announce by 15th September. Non -teaching staff will not be assigned invigilation duties in schools and colleges.
It was decided too that summer vacation will be observed from 1st June to 31st July while winter vacation will be observed from 22nd December to 31st December. Seehar emphasized upon officials to take all possible steps to curb cheating in examinations and create awareness among all stakeholders including parents, teachers, and students regarding drastic effects of cheating in examinations. It was decided that monitoring teams would be formed to stop cheating in examinations. The teachers will be bound to perform exams duties. Violators will be dealt strictly. It was also considered that to encourage teachers for examination duties, their packages will be enhanced. All educational institutions will celebrate a week for sports.
Concluding the meeting, the education minister asked them to play their positive role in curbing unfair means in the examinations and improve education in Sindh while Secretary Colleges assured them his full cooperation in implementing the policies. He said that all stakeholders have to work on the same page to eradicate cheating in examinations and to improve education in the province, which is the only way that we can save our future generation from total destruction.