[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]COMSATS University in Islamabad, Pakistan, has come under fire when one of its faculty members asked students to write an essay about incestuous relationships. The controversy started after a photo of the test from the institution went popular on social media.
Students were required to compose an essay on the incestuous relationship between a brother and a sister for the test. Social media users were outraged by the paper’s photographs and demanded that the teacher be disciplined severely.
After the controversy, the university administration notified the Ministry of Science and Technology that the faculty member who had posed the divisive question during the English composition exam had had his or her employment terminated.
“An investigation against the substance of the quiz of English Subject of BEE, 1st Semester Course Code HUM 100,” the university stated in a letter dated February 2. I am required to make reference to the Ministry of Science and Technology letter dated January 19, 2023, on the aforementioned subject, and to inform the reader that the situation has already been resolved and the Lecturer’s (visiting faculty) service has been terminated as of January 5, 2023. It went on to say that the professor had also been put on a blacklist.
Upon notification of the insulting nature of the BEE quiz by Pakistan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, the university responded. The letter from Pakistan’s Ministry of Science and Technology to the university on January 19, 2023 stated that the quiz’s material was “extremely offensive, completely against the curriculum regulations of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and provoked disturbance among the families of students.”
The institution was required by the ministry to launch an inquiry and impose severe sanctions on individuals responsible. The university administration had been given a week by the government to turn in the investigation’s results.
According to rumours, Assistant Registrar Naveed Ahmed Khan admitted that BEE English Composition students were subjected to a “really harsh question.”
He asserted that the faculty member was summoned to a conference the next day by the rector and asked to justify his “dumb question” to students. He said that the faculty member had acknowledged his error and that the CUI had fired him.
“What else could we do? His services were terminated, and the quiz was retaken,” he stated, adding that the faculty member plagiarised the question from Google.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
