Self-finance scheme in colleges gets confused with second shift

LAHORE - The polytechnic institutes and colleges of technologies which cater an average technical education up to the diploma level, B Tech and B Com cannot be categorised as professional institutions at par with the medical, engineering or commerce institutions of higher level education which are under fire for costly self-finance schemes.

However, in a move against self-finance schemes in professional colleges of higher education, launched because of highly inflated fee especially in medical colleges, the government disbanded the second shift scheme in polytechnic institutes and colleges of technology rendering loss to thousands of families whose children usually take admission in polytechnics after matriculation.

The abolition of self-finance scheme in medical colleges was prompted because they charge Rs 5-10 lakh for a medical graduate and only the ineligible and incompetent but financially sound students with comparatively lower merit secure admission in such colleges on self-finance basis.