Speakers at a workshop stressed the need for improving the liaison of academics with media industry to meet the future challenges. These views were expressed at the closing ceremony of…
The video clip of former Punjab University vice chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran and registrars of Punjab University in handcuffs depicted a ghastly spectacle. Dr Kamran is a physicist recognised within…
The menace of COVID – 19 is threatening not only the lives and economic well being of people but placing the academic careers of the generation currently enrolled in educational…
It will take no less than an academic book to capture the journey of rural transformation in Pakistan for being one of the countries with the largest rural development initiatives…
The dictionary defines academic as “educational, scholastic,” as well as “not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest.” After spending a week at an academic conference with eminent university scholars…
The video clip of former Punjab University vice chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran and registrars of Punjab University in handcuffs depicted a ghastly spectacle. Dr Kamran is a physicist recognised within…
When I got admission to a US university and went there for higher studies, I was in for quite a shock. The campus was open and alive – its lawns…
Sadly, unlike the lack of media coverage, and very little discussion of policy circles on this – both on the government, and opposition sides, and in the academic arena –…
CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when…
In my previous column (‘Who will guard the universities’, June 1), I highlighted the concerns of academics and intellectuals about the declining academic freedom at the institutes of higher education,…
