Education developments
The first foreign university, the Pakistan Austrian Fachhochschule with five departments and four major postgraduate research centers of excellence, started to function last month in Haripur Hazara, within a record…
South Asian higher education and region’s socio-economic development
The immense power of knowledge to change societies’ fortune has motivated many countries to build “knowledge-based economies.” The South Asian (SA) policymakers now increasingly realise that building such economic systems…
Education and development
“When I was ambivalent about choosing a career path on my very first day as a new entrant to high school, I remember one of my teachers saying that one…
Education and development
Only 200 years ago, the difference in economic conditions among those living in different parts of the world was minimal. The innovation of the steam engine and other technologies in…
Education and development Thoughts for the Professor
Ghost schools are our singular contribution to literature on education. Ghosts, after all, are part of our folklore. Grandma's bed time stories had a delectable ghost presence that signalled 'sleep…
History of educational development
Instead of raising and answering fundamental questions about purposes of education in our context, we have been borrowing heavily, and uncritically, the ideas produced elsewhere If we take a look…
Education for development
The first human development report introduced a paradigm shift in views about development in 1990 when it asserted that the “people are the real wealth of a nation”. When we…
Development of education sector for sustainable growth
Inspiration comes from leadership, leadership derives from motivation, motivation comes from within a person and the only thing that can develop a person is the education one gets. Education to…
Education for development
Education is considered by many to have a close relationship with development. Usually the concept of development is confined to economic development i.e. education for better jobs or educated citizens…
