ISLAMABAD-The Inter Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC) has decided to create a central repository of data of all the examination boards of the country and also digitise all manual data, said a statement.
The statement released by the IBCC said that in order to strengthen the automation system in Inter Board Committee of Chairmen, to ease and facilitate the attestation and equivalence process for general public, the IBCC management under the leading role of its Secretary/CEO Dr Ghulam Ali Mallah has taken certain concrete steps in line with policy directions of the minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood.
These steps will also be a source to help improve the overall examination assessment system across the country.
The Secretary/CEO Inter Board Committee of Chairmen and Executive Director National Information Technology Board (NITB) have formally agreed to set up an automation system initially in the secretariat of the IBCC at Islamabad, which will be referred over to all the stakeholders. In follow-up, a meeting of chairmen examining bodies was held on 15th January, 2021.
In the meeting, it was agreed to create a central repository of data of all the examination boards of Pakistan at IBCC Islamabad. The digitisation process will be phase-wise and as a pilot phase, FBISE Islamabad, BISE Lahore, BISE Peshawar, BISE Quetta and BSE Karachi will add their data to the repository at IBCC Islamabad.
In the next phase, the NITB will support in digitisation of the existing manual data of all the boards in collaboration with the IBCC. It was also decided that the National IT Board will provide e-office services to the IBCC secretariat and its regional offices to automate all internal processes.
And the data of boards will be integrated with attestation and equivalence e-portals of the IBCC to convert the existing hybrid system into complete automation.
The NITB will help design software and create a central bank of question items at the IBCC secretariat for all examination boards which will help to shift the assessment from rote learning to concept learning system.
This is a revolutionary step taken by the IBCC and surely, will have a keen and fruitful impact on the overall education system across the country.