06-08-2009, 08:15 AM
icap's policy needs drastic improvement for a long time...
but icap has been very slow in this regard..
however i will give some suggestions myself..and invite others to give suggestions also (please keep in mind that suggestions should be practical)
1.Develop education material which is uptodate,relevant,well defined and certified...currently only PBP and Folks Lynch are producing some material.......and we all know that quality,coverage,relevance and currency (being uptodate) of these publications is highly debatable
2.ICAP supervised/approved teachers.....i mean if icap can award the degree it should also do some effort to encourage involvement of its members in education
to put it more clearly...
2.1 icap board of studies should be expanded and training and guidance shoud be given by icap to members involved in teaching profession
2.2 icap should start a certification course to be awarded to CA teachers...showing their competence at teaching CA subjects
2.3 minimum contribution by members to educational material should be established-
3.Analysis of student result should be given to the student containing details such as
exact marks scored by the student
4.Just like CPD activities are done...so should be activities done for students
An easy thing woud be to make all CPD material available to students as well.
5.Education of professional level should be also formalised like that of CA. Inter
6.Arrangement should be made to have CA-Inter degree given equivalence to Pakistani university degrees
for example by allowing students to give urdu/pak studies/islamiat exams and get equivalence to bachelor degrees of
govt universities (private universities are already doing this to make money)
7.Syllabus should be more clearly defined-especially clear boundaries shoud be established
8.Solutions are published now but they are not those against which exams are compared...
The exact marking key solutions should be published
9.Multiple choice questions should be set in exams
10.Atleast 1 day gap should be there between two papers (untill MCQ's are not introduced and memorization papers are set)
I believe none of the above mentioned actions/policies affects the quality/standard of the exam.
More suggestions are welcome
P.S i would also appreciate if qualified persons would comment on these..
but icap has been very slow in this regard..
however i will give some suggestions myself..and invite others to give suggestions also (please keep in mind that suggestions should be practical)
1.Develop education material which is uptodate,relevant,well defined and certified...currently only PBP and Folks Lynch are producing some material.......and we all know that quality,coverage,relevance and currency (being uptodate) of these publications is highly debatable
2.ICAP supervised/approved teachers.....i mean if icap can award the degree it should also do some effort to encourage involvement of its members in education
to put it more clearly...
2.1 icap board of studies should be expanded and training and guidance shoud be given by icap to members involved in teaching profession
2.2 icap should start a certification course to be awarded to CA teachers...showing their competence at teaching CA subjects
2.3 minimum contribution by members to educational material should be established-
3.Analysis of student result should be given to the student containing details such as
exact marks scored by the student
4.Just like CPD activities are done...so should be activities done for students
An easy thing woud be to make all CPD material available to students as well.
5.Education of professional level should be also formalised like that of CA. Inter
6.Arrangement should be made to have CA-Inter degree given equivalence to Pakistani university degrees
for example by allowing students to give urdu/pak studies/islamiat exams and get equivalence to bachelor degrees of
govt universities (private universities are already doing this to make money)
7.Syllabus should be more clearly defined-especially clear boundaries shoud be established
8.Solutions are published now but they are not those against which exams are compared...
The exact marking key solutions should be published
9.Multiple choice questions should be set in exams
10.Atleast 1 day gap should be there between two papers (untill MCQ's are not introduced and memorization papers are set)
I believe none of the above mentioned actions/policies affects the quality/standard of the exam.
More suggestions are welcome
P.S i would also appreciate if qualified persons would comment on these..
