Just as deserving

Last month, a longstanding demand of the A-level students was met when the Punjab government had notified that the evaluation of A-level students for admission in medical colleges would be undertaken separately by the University of Health Sciences from their own syllabus and not from the FSc, as was the practice in the past (see The Nation, July 8, 2009). Look at the unfairness of the authorities that we, the pre-engineering A-level candidates, have been overlooked completely even as we face the very same difficulties due to unfair admission policies as our pre-medical counterparts. We request the Ministry of Education and the Punjab Chief Minister to take immediate notice of our suffering and issue the necessary orders to facilitate our admissions before the entry tests for major universities like UET and Punjab University take place by the end of current month. All we demand is our right to an A-level based separate entry test and a just equivalence system. However, we do not at all require any separate quotas, as is the case of our medical counterparts. -A-LEVEL STUDENTS (Pre-Engineering), Lahore, August 5.

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