Private education

The recently announced IBA-Karachi’s admission test results for BBA, Computer Science, Economists and Maths, Accounts and Finance tell us a consistent story of what is happening in schools and colleges run by the Sindh government. Out of 1055 candidates, 754 students (70 percent) who got admission in the BS and BBA programmes had A-level background while the remaining 301 students (30 percent) had completed their intermediate studies. Not a single student who had passed the matriculation exam from a government school cleared the IBA test. A few decades back, most of IBA’s successful candidates used to be from government schools.

But even not every private school is a successful story; it all depends on how much you are ready to pay as these are run as profit-making machines. It is quite clear that every successive government has failed to make education a top priority. The IBA admission results expose what is being taught in government schools and colleges. Education is now a private matter, it is no more a state concern. The Sindh government has allocated a large chunk of its 2016-17 budget to education. Will anything change, other than of few accounts balances being fattened?

Masood Khan

Saudi Arabia