ISLAMABAD: Comsats University Islamabad (CUI) has fired a lecturer for asking a “objectionable” question in a test about the English language requirements for the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE) programme.
The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) was informed that [an] investigation into the quiz’s content had been initiated in a letter from the CUI administration on February 2.
In accordance with the letter, the administration has already taken action and terminated the employment of lecturers (visiting faculty) as of January 5, 2023. The professor had also been added to a blacklist, it continued to state.
Students were “startled” to learn that the question asked them to write 300 words on the topic.
According to supplementary registrar Naveed Ahmed Khan, the rector admitted his mistake when he called the lecturer to clarify the issue. As a result, the lecturer was fired. “He had stolen the inquiry from Google,” he claimed. The test, he claimed, was redone.
The exam procedure was mocked by a faculty member who questioned why the problem could only be taken into account after the students raised it. He questioned whether the lecturer’s termination had anything to do with the government becoming aware of the incident.
