Thirdly, private colleges stopped giving students exposure to laboratory
work over one decade ago, and universities purchased simulation software
and simulators instead of imparting practical experience. As R2
expressed, “it is strange to see university professors churning out 600
research papers and there is no hardware proof of any research”. If the
research work was done without any experimental setup, then it is
theoretical science, not the engineering. All software research without
hardware is mandated to nowhere. Eight education boards in Punjab have
decided to restart practical exam for 9th class with effect from 2015
(Higher Education Commission, Pakistan 2016). Private schools do not
conduct practical (lab work) work nor demand students to complete
practical copies. Schools get information of practical from educational
boards somehow to help prepare students few days before the practical
exam. They distribute solved notebooks of laboratory work among students
to complete overnight. Private school networks are destroying the
education system by saving money out of experiments.
Lastly, as R1 believed that “even if someone manages to obtain the
degree, he cannot get a job due to racial discrimination in public
service departments including universities”. The government has started
appointing loyal junior officers to higher posts as bureaucrats used to
do in the past. Inherited politicians and dual national bureaucrats are
the root-cause of most corrupt practices. People are not aware of the
outcome of privatization process, but they worry when the corrupt
politicians and bureaucrats trumpet privatization, globalization, and
internationalization. They bring their kith and kin as foreign
consultants on fat salaries. Extremism in our society might not be any
imported evil it could be the logical consequence of our biased policies
and practices. Our incumbents straddle across religious and racial
spheres. An ideological state with nukes facing widespread corruption,
racial bias and extremism cannot have any place on the planet (Kalairet al. 2013). Consequent to such practices of appointing VCs and
chief executives in academic institutions, the knowledge-based economy
movement has already ceased (Ashfaq 2015). If we continue to remain
wangled to wharfs of a dissolute racial bias then we are waiting for
lightning which would never strike.