Former Federal Secretary Education and leading educationist, S M Qureshi has called upon the management of private institutions to carryout market research and find out its absorbing capacity for fresh business management graduates before offering more business related courses to new students.
Qureshi was speaking as chief guest at the Young Masterminds contest, final round, organised by the Iqra University at its city campus on Friday.
He said that most of the educational institutions in the private sector were offering courses only in business studies and computer sciences, which had come to point of saturation.
The institutions should try to offer courses in liberal sciences, art and literature and home economics so that some variety could be created. There was plenty of scope for fresh graduates in other disciplines.
Qureshi said the over production of graduates only in a few selected subjects would create glut in the market and add to literate unemployed population.
The former Secretary said that there was still room for improvement in the quality of education that private institutions were offering.
"Iqra and one or two more universities have maintained their standard, which is encouraging," he added and called upon the others to prepare themselves for hard competition coming ahead. Only the best would survive, he added.
Qureshi said the public sector was unable to meet all the requirement of quality education and there was need to develop a very strong public-private partnership if we wished to excel in secondary and tertiary level education.
Welcoming the guests, Deputy Director Naz Soomro, the person behind this contest, said the purpose of the programme is to in-still spirit of competition among students and prepare them to accept challenges in their practical life.
She said that it was during the summer holidays last year that the chancellor of the Iqra University entrusted this idea and responsibility of organising the YMM contest in Karachi to her.
She said, "The programme had successfully been organised by our Lahore campus when we were in the stage of planning it for the students of Karachi. It was the Karachi students' turn to face the challenge and ours to hunt the masterminds of Karachi."
"We have done it today", she said. In the initial stage all the leading A'level schools and intermediate colleges were invited to nominate ten students.
The first round started with nearly 200 students from 20 Cambridge schools and intermediate colleges participating.
These students took written tests based on mathematics, general knowledge, and English and IQ determination.
The top 30 scorers were promoted to the second round, which was based upon group discussion. The participants were graded according to their presentations and ten top scorers were selected for the final.
At the final stage, ten judges drawn from different professions were invited to ask questions on general knowledge.
Based on their collective judgement Madeha Saeed of Defence Housing Authority College, Aysha Zahra and Uneza belonging to Foundation Public School were declared as first, second and third respectively and were awarded prize money of Rs 50,000, Rs 30,000 and Rs 15,000 accordingly.
Hunaid Lakhani, chancellor of Iqra University gave away prizes and certificates to all the participants and cash awards to the winners. Ahsan Durrani, director, IU, also spoke on the occasion.
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