Abstract
Attaining a professional engineering degree is a dream of many
pre-engineering intermediate students in Pakistan. Several students
face scarcity of resources to accomplish and enliven their dreams
of getting admission into an engineering institute, which results in
great hardships and turmoil for them. The literature reveals that
quantitative work in this area has been done to some extent, which
restricts the comprehension of deeper understanding, profound
feelings, perceptions, personal meanings, effects and experiences
surrounding this dilemma at the time of rejection. This study has
tried to ferret out the experiences of the students who could not
get admission in the field of their own interest and went through
the phase of uncertainty concerning their future. The research
is grounded in the tradition of hermeneutic phenomenology as
guided by Heidegger (1962), Gadamer (1960/2003), Casey (1993)
and Levinas (1961/2004). By calling forth the philosophical and
methodological tenets of this approach, the endeavor was to uncover
the lived experiences of the students at the time of failure as well
as how they felt about their future. A group of five students from the University of Karachi (Department of Statistics), who could
not qualify in the Entrance test of a well renowned Engineering
University in Karachi and later joined BS program in Actuarial
Sciences, were interviewed for this research. The insights of the
study reflect that lack of opportunities and failure result in a great
set back for the students and harbor negative feelings in them
towards education and its system. The study recommends the need
to establish new public sector universities to fulfill the needs of the
students to achieve their targets and simultaneously to groom them
as an asset for the country
Naeem Akhtar Rana, Naeem Tuba. (2018) Failure to get Admissions in a Discipline of their own Choice: Voices of Dejected Students, Journal of Education and Educational Development, volume 4, issue 4.1.
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