Restructuring of curricula to raise education standard stressed

The main problem of poor educational standards in Pakistan is poor curriculum, and until the curriculum was restructured, the country would never produce well-educated youth.
This was said by the Foundation University's Rector, Professor Zulfiqar Hussain Gilani, here on Monday evening.
Speaking at the launching ceremony of the university intranet website in the University's Institute of Management and Computer Science (FUIMCS), he said that the graduates, being produced by the universities of the country, had least knowledge about their subject, as their curriculum lacked objectivity.
Professor Gilani said: "We in the Foundation University have laid the emphasis on the objectivity of the curriculum and quality of education."
It was a big challenge in the country and the FUIMCS took that challenge and marched towards the goal of producing high quality graduates in all fields of life, he said.
He further said the FUIMCS was not an economic venture as a strong trust like Fauji Foundation was at its back, and added the main aim was to provide quality education at very nominal rates.
Professor Gilani said that the standards of the alma mater were of world standard, and no Pakistani university was matching those standards and students were being provided better atmosphere with dedicated faculty members.
He said: "We have a strong faculty with 166 dedicated and highly qualified faculty members out of which 67 are Ph.Ds", and added that the roll of students was 1,053 with 35 students of Ph.D.
The university, at present, was working in four faculties, including education, engineering and information technology (IT), management science and medical, Professor Gilani said, and added that in the next two years, the university had plans to launch a four-year integrated under-graduate programme, establishment of colleges of dentistry, pharmacy and nursing.
Talking about the launching of internet institute, he said it would provide easy connectivity and approach to the students of the university and would help them in their educational career.
Foundation University's system expert Saquib Farooq Malik said that the establishment university-wide internet and website were important steps in the development of the FUIMCS as a modern institution of higher learning.
In the era of high-speed electronic communication, inter and intra-connectivity were indispensable for any educational institution, Saquib said, and added: "The university, after realising the significance of such an infrastructure, has set up a functional database internet and internet system."
The internet, he said, would provide a fast connectivity among different institutions of the university with the use of state of art high-data-rate digital subscriber line (HDSL).