Jinnah College, Peshawar University admission process
Jinnah College admission process irks students, parents
Peshawar, July 09: Students seeking admission to the Jinnah College, University of Peshawar, and their parents have expressed reservations over admission process in one of the best institutions in the province for the female education.
A number of students and their parents registered their complaints about the admission process in the college where merit had always remain the highest in the entire Frontier province.
According the merit list displayed outside the college, the last merit for admission to the institution is 934 marks and that too on self-finance basis.The parents were of the opinion that the number of seats for self-finance was doubled as much the open merit seats, which meant that the public sector institution had also become a commercial organisation.
Despite the fact that the Higher Education Commission and the provincial government was giving huge grants to the institution, 130 students were offered admission on self-finance basis, while only 65 students are admitted against the open merit.
The prospectus of the college shows that 65 students are offered admission against open merit in pre-medical group, 12 in pre-engineering and 20 in general science group, while a total number of seats allocated for self-finance is 130.
The parents said there were no criteria for the open merit as students from across the country were eligible to apply. The results of the Federal Board were declared after the date for submission of admission form was over, but even then the students of the board were allowed to apply for admission. They said the students of the Federal Board were still without detailed marks certificates, but they were leading the merit list.
The parents argued that the college was established in 1964. No increase in the number of seats since the day of the establishment of the college could be made despite the fact that the population of the province and adjacent tribal belt and literacy rate had increased manifold during the past 45 years.
They complained that the number of boards in the Frontier province had also increased from one to seven after the establishment of the college, but there was no special quota for the local students.
The results of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar also remain the toughest among all the provincial and federal boards and thus the students belonging to Peshawar and Charsadda, who happen to be the most brilliant in the province, fail to get admission to the college located in their home city, they said.
The principal of the college, however, could not be contacted for comments despite several attempts. Once a male staff member received the phone call made by this correspondent, who said that the principal was very busy in the admission process and could not talk to anybody.
When called later, a female recipient of the phone said the principal was out of the office on a visit. She left the institution for home was the answer when approached for the third time.
