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Universities fight backDr Naazir
When Hitler and Mussolini imposed their fascism and Nazism over Germany and Italy, one of the first steps they took was to suffocate the academic culture and then moved on to curb the press. Whenever...
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A treasury of sortsShehryar
Two women are sitting on a bench outside the Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) office in Lahore. Forty-five year old Rani Bibi, a resident of Mecca Colony, is holding a file of breast cancer treatment. She...
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“The State shall provide free and compulsory…”Umaima 4
From 1998 to 2001 I was studying in a junior high school in Canada. It was a place that attracted children from all sorts of backgrounds, without discrimination. However, on my return to Pakistan I...
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Access to educationprivate_school-bspline
With the new government assuming power, as Pakistan chants slogans of tabdeeli, the reforms in education are repeated with a new twist. For some time now, at the start of a new academic year, there is...
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Illiteracy and developmentRaheem
For most of their history, humans have communicated and shared knowledge through oral communication, while the written word had been a preserve of a small religious or bureaucratic elite. Although this...
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Unifying educationopen
The very first meeting of the National Task Force on Education constituted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Professional Training took place in Islamabad on September 10, 2018. The task force...
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Revamping governance of universitiesDr Butt
The long-awaited ‘decentralisation’ was approved by the parliament with consensus in 2010 as part of the 18th Amendment in the Constitution of Pakistan to devolve powers from the federal to provincial...
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Our collective lonelinesskarachi-traffic-750x410
There’s an activity that teens in private schools are happily engaged in these days called MUN. Most schools host an M.U.N. every year. The students who actively participate in these MUNs (acronym for...
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March under one banner
On the last day of this November, a gust of wind in the form of “Students Solidarity March” started blowing on The Mall of Lahore. More than 600 students (male and female) belonging to different...
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University governance in Pakistan-IBangash
I have now been working in Pakistan for over eight years and have spent my time in two rather different universities. Both were relatively new (one was older but only got its university charter in...
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A university is…Irfan2
Teachers Dr. Murad Ali, University of Agriculture, Peshawar I expect universities to be hubs of quality research, but in Pakistani universities are home to substandard publication and irresponsible...
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Overlapping rolesphd
The federal Higher Education Commission (HEC) was established in 2002 under an Ordinance. The objectives were to reform centres of higher education, promote research in academic institutions, shift...
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Filling gaps in education sector
Providing quality education is pivotal to sustainable development. Quality education can enable communities to contribute proactively in socioeconomic development. A well-educated nation can also...
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When will we get there?
In his 2010 book The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris argues that there can be numerous ways to achieve the “well-being of conscious creatures,” many different maxima, all achieved by climbing different...
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From street to schoolAyesha
The Problem There are at least two categories of out of school children — children who have never been to school and children who may have enrolled at some point but dropped out later. Not all ‘out of...
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Selecting an undergraduate disciplineDr Noman
While going through the pages of our national newspapers, one finds many advertisements by various universities and institutions offering admissions. Most of the institutions highlight their degree...
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Stranger in your own landdr ayesha 1
Schooling in a foreign language I had several Chinese cohort mates in grad school. One of them is now director of a research centre in the US. It took her a couple of semesters before she began...
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