At colleges, more students pass but standards fall in city’s 210 higher secondary education institutions,

KARACHI: This year, the number of intermediate students passing from colleges in Karachi went up by five per cent but this does not necessarily mean that the standard of education has improved at these colleges.


At the city’s 210 higher secondary education institutions, a little over half of the students managed to squeeze through. They fall in the 16- to 18-year-old bracket. In fact, the education department has been struggling to rein in “bad” private colleges whose intermediate

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