KU Students taking classes on floor
Karachi:There was a time when many thousand years ago, students studied under the shade of trees, sitting on the ground while teachers delivered lectures in Taxila and Nalanda universities. Today, it seems that the wheels have been turned back at the University of Karachi (KU).
Students of one KU class can be found sitting on the concrete floor at the Department of Sociology listening to their English teacher’s lecture – because classrooms are not opened till 9 am. This is despite the scheduled time for the first class of the morning being 8.30 am.
They do not suffer alone. There was also the case of the Institute of Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Science, where students had no other option but to attend their classes on the stairs at the main entrance of the Institute, because the classrooms were locked.
The practice has been going on unchecked at the universities, much to the detriment of the students.
Meanwhile, the chairperson and senior teachers of the Sociology Department seldom come before 10 am despite living in the university’s Staff Town, located within the campus. They have conveniently scheduled their classes after 10 am while the cooperative teachers take the first and second periods of the day.
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