Pakistan and the STEAM economy [Part – III]
The mode of education in Pakistan – which is transactional with teachers and faculty leading the way and the students having little choice but to fall in line and go…
Restructuring academia
The faculty at Pakistani universities is extremely busy. Its only priority seems to be ‘research publications’ as the number of research articles published has become an important criterion to gauge…
Miracle of education
One important initiative currently in the limelight across the globe is the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which ranks countries in terms of students’ scores in math…
The great escape
Covid-management strategies meant different things to people employed in different sectors during the last two years. Non-critical activities came to a stop. This meant either work-from-home (WFH) for those who…
Accountability of the educator
Everyone who is even a little bit familiar with how governance works knows that only those systems work that can be held accountable. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. There is a…
PIA: fab past, grim present, vague future
Ivy league’s business schools are always looking for cases to study in-depth by their students about corporations who after achieving their glorious periods, decline and struggle for their survival. Harvard,…
Bewilderment over rational tax policy
There is a national consensus that the existing tax system needs to be completely restructured to provide an equitable, pragmatic, investment-oriented and growth-inductive policy and nationally integrated automated tax administration…
Corporal punishment as culture
IN February 2021, a landmark bill to ban corporal punishment in all educational and childcare settings was moved in the National Assembly by MNA Mehnaz Akber Aziz and passed with cross-party support.…
Restructuring the tax system — I
“If we realise that the FBR cannot be fixed, we will create a new FBR. This is because Pakistan’s survival is linked to it. It’s not about our liking or…
Covid’s impact on students
A NUMBER of papers in academic journals show that Covid-19 has had a very significant impact on students’ mental health. Some papers say that the reports of high levels of…
