While students and associations of private medical and dental colleges have been critical of Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC), the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) in a performance report claimed…
Views of Prof. Dr Anis Ahmad vice-chancellor of Riphah International University Islamabad and member of IPS National Academic Council on the recent accords between Madrassas (Religious Education Institutions) and Ministry…
Members of national medical and dental academic board of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) on Wednesday vowed to ensure quality medical and dental education. The 21-member board was…
Large Language Models (LLMs), the guts of chatbots (with a lowercase ‘c’) like ChatGPT, are having their moment right now. The rise of chatbots has brought forth numerous debates on…
This is a year-end review of the most important events in the education sector in 2022 and a forecast of how some of those issues will continue to play out…
The 2023 World University Rankings were published recently by the Times Higher Education (THE). Three Asian universities are ranked among the top 20. These are Tsinghua University (No 16), Peking…
Education in Pakistan has been perpetually in peril. Not because the government did not have resources; it had them for all other purposes, including some wrong ones. Mainly education has…
How violation of the fundamental rights of a citizen dents our entire society is often ignored by the power structures in the country. This is especially so when it translates…
Budget allocations should be read as reflections of the true priority accorded to sectors and programmes. Insufficient budgetary allocations to programmes incur delays, cost overruns and poor /delayed social impact.…
When the Higher Education Commission was established and I was appointed as its founding chairman in 2002, there were no Pakistani universities in the top 500 of the world according…
