Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formed a search committee to appoint a new Chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), as the tenure of the incumbent, Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, is…
The country’s higher education sector saw major funding cut in the federal budget for fiscal year 2025-26. In the outgoing fiscal year, the government had allocated Rs66.3 billion for development projects…
The federal government’s move to amend the Ordinance of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to curtail its autonomy and control its functions, has sent shockwaves across the higher education sector…
Experts at Virtual Education Conference organised by the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) highlighted the key challenges education sector face due to Covid-19 at Chamber House here on…
The Pakistan-India cultural exchange programmes would have a positive impact on the education sector of the country while the campaign ‘Aman ki Asha’ could play a significant role in promoting…
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…
I asked 12 year-old Sultan (pseudonym) to read from his Urdu textbook. He struggled to read a simple sentence (“more sher ki tarha jungle kaa badshah hai”). While he eventually…
Too often our education debates are framed in narrow technocratic terms: budget percentages, enrollment figures, out-of-school numbers, as though statistics could name what is wrong. But a single day in…
WE already have 270-odd universities in the country. And many new ones are being set up every year. The government has also elevated many colleges to university status. But if…
WITH 26.2 million children out of school, the state may have to revive its model of public-private partnership (PPP) to widen the net of access and equity in education. Pakistan…
