Re: TOEFIC
Aliyish,
nice post. it is nice to see more enteries in this section because it directly links education with economic stability for professionals of the country - whose communication ability is valued as a requirement to be simply more well equipped when it comes to conducting cross national exchange of human capital and its intellectual wealth.
First of all , I would like to thank you for being so generous in replying this post with some of your beautiful thoughts . A good conscience is a soft pillow, I say you must be sleeping well these days . Education is indeed directly proportional to economic stability of a county and commonly regarded as transmission of civilization. But this is what you , me and Aristotle think where he stated that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Our Moderates (Pakistan Affairs) don’t follow the same line therefore topic is dislocated or I must say relocated to general section for general people like us . As once poet said ‘ Sar Tasleemay Khaam hai , Jo meejaaz yaaar mein ahay ‘ do read Moderator instead of yaar in this scenario :)
ability for scientific or intellectual inquiry in based on the assumption that the seeker of knowledge is a literate individual, learning cannot take place without use of language.
Yes, I quite agree with you. In our current scenario, English is, no doubt, a very important language, as it is an international means of communication. The problem is that, back in Pakistan, students and government of Pakistan, they don’t seem to realise its real importance. Generally speaking, English is the universal language on the Internet and almost 95 % of world literature publish in English. My point here is to use it as good servant and don’t let it be a bad master. Our educational system should make sure that students at college level should speak fluent English and while going for higher degrees, enter in western society without a handicap. When I was a student representative years ago , have seen many Pakistani students , postgraduate degrees holders , who couldn’t write a basic application and most of their education was done in English .
i don’t know what the curricula is like for the specific subject of international communication , but i presume and hope that it has more to do with the particular terminology of a field of specialty in work rather than simple grammatical proficiency at graduate level.
I don’t know Dushy; I couldn’t get any thing published, regarding this decision on HCE Pakistan’s official website. My learning of this decision came out of a web poll conducted by Jang newspaper on this issue.
it is a good step that HEC has taken, but it will be interesting to know what has pushed the HEC to do so? was TOEFL not sufficient, if so then in what ways? does this test has a background policy to filter students who are not fully versed in English language? how useful is this post graduate passing out regulation in the context of employment? And so on and so forth. More standardized and norm referenced testing is not a bad thing – it is a compliment to the years of studying and training of students, but its value has to be ascertained in terms of all students who may or may not work in setting where their main language at work, will be English.
Well , I don’t think TOEFL or IELTS are doing the specific job , we require here . I am talking here from general people ‘s prospect and contemplation , student from grammar schools , obviously don’t seem to have this issue . It is grand , seeing one sitting in these examinations and get a ticket to enter in international universities but heaven sake don’t let our brainy and highbrow students to be the back benchers just because of their sleazy level of English communication .