Students pay teacher’s salary to continue studies
Saturday, 16 March 2013
ISLAMABAD: Owing to the lack of attention on part of the authorities concerned, the College for Medical and Laboratory Technology has been suffering from shortage of staff in each department to teach hundreds of its students
According to details, CMLT, which works under National Institute of Health, has been going through shortage of staff due to which the available teachers have no choice but to take more than two subjects to cover the syllabus, which is irking the students as well as the teachers.
A large number of students doing BSC and FSC at the college have complained that they are not being given proper attention by the faculty which is affecting their studies. “There are subjects like petrology, instrumentation and blood banking. These subjects are being covered by a single female teacher for the FSc as well as the BSc classes at the same time.
“Other subjects like parasitology are also going through the same situation leaving a question mark on the studies of the students as well as the role of the NIH management,” said a student. According to some other students, earlier the college had the faculty for these subjects. “Due to delay in salaries, the staff was forced to leave the institution. The teacher who taught us these subjects left the institution because he was not being paid according to his contract. The students then arranged money at our own to pay him for the month because there was no replacement in the faculty and we had our exams to be held in few days,” said yet another student.
The institute’s management has not paid any attention toward students’ sufferings as the college is still not having any permanent faculty for many subjects. The students also accused the management of not hiring permanent faculty, despite the fact that student fees for the latest batches have also been raised by 40 percent. The college had previously affiliation with King Edward Medical University of Lahore. That was later terminated. It was then affiliated with University of the Punjab, which caused increase in the fee structure.
Principal Dr Mohammad Hussain, when contacted, said, “These issues are not only CMLT’s issues. These are everywhere.” He said currently they have hired one of their ex-students who topped in her college exams as a teacher for the subjects that have no faculty. He said the reason why the college lacked permanent faculty was a ban on new recruitments imposed by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
On the other hand, National Institute of Health Director Administration Dr Saqlain Ahmad Gilani told The Spokesman that “The number of teachers is enough according to the number of the students in the college. Normally people with expertise from different departments also take classes, which is not wrong as it happens in all other colleges”.
According to details, CMLT, which works under National Institute of Health, has been going through shortage of staff due to which the available teachers have no choice but to take more than two subjects to cover the syllabus, which is irking the students as well as the teachers.
A large number of students doing BSC and FSC at the college have complained that they are not being given proper attention by the faculty which is affecting their studies. “There are subjects like petrology, instrumentation and blood banking. These subjects are being covered by a single female teacher for the FSc as well as the BSc classes at the same time.
“Other subjects like parasitology are also going through the same situation leaving a question mark on the studies of the students as well as the role of the NIH management,” said a student. According to some other students, earlier the college had the faculty for these subjects. “Due to delay in salaries, the staff was forced to leave the institution. The teacher who taught us these subjects left the institution because he was not being paid according to his contract. The students then arranged money at our own to pay him for the month because there was no replacement in the faculty and we had our exams to be held in few days,” said yet another student.
The institute’s management has not paid any attention toward students’ sufferings as the college is still not having any permanent faculty for many subjects. The students also accused the management of not hiring permanent faculty, despite the fact that student fees for the latest batches have also been raised by 40 percent. The college had previously affiliation with King Edward Medical University of Lahore. That was later terminated. It was then affiliated with University of the Punjab, which caused increase in the fee structure.
Principal Dr Mohammad Hussain, when contacted, said, “These issues are not only CMLT’s issues. These are everywhere.” He said currently they have hired one of their ex-students who topped in her college exams as a teacher for the subjects that have no faculty. He said the reason why the college lacked permanent faculty was a ban on new recruitments imposed by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
On the other hand, National Institute of Health Director Administration Dr Saqlain Ahmad Gilani told The Spokesman that “The number of teachers is enough according to the number of the students in the college. Normally people with expertise from different departments also take classes, which is not wrong as it happens in all other colleges”.
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