PMDC told to improve medical education system
Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) President Dr. Rizwan Taj met with Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal and discussed with him the current medical education system in the…
Fix the education system
The recent controversy over A-level results in Pakistan has stirred up new thinking on education. While most A-level students who sat for their exams earlier this year are likely to…
‘Pakistan’s education system facing plethora of challenges’
Universities are supposed to be the centres of quality conventional and virtual education with highly qualified faculty, said Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood. He stated this…
Current education system, a prison to ideas of west
The prevailing education system in the country is borrowed from the west, which gives us knowledge but not wisdom. Rather, it is a prison of ideas of the west and…
Our education system
Our educational system is in a bad shape – or rather, in a very bad shape. In world rankings, none of our universities or institutions falls within even the first…
Do we need a warped education system?
Here is a question. Should we close down all our schools – or almost all of them, at least those in the public sector? At first this may seem like…
Educational institutions discuss integrating ‘food systems’ in curriculum
Pakistani universities and higher educational institutions gathered on Wednesday to deliberate on the integration of ‘food systems’ and ‘food systems transformation’ into the curriculum of Pakistani universities focusing on agriculture…
Pakistan’s tax system: an overtaxing Leviathan or a wake-up call for reform?
With the federal and provincial budgets due next month, public and business sentiment is once again shadowed by fiscal apprehension. Recently, media reports suggested that the IMF projects Pakistan’s revenue…
VCs for fostering leadership development to improve higher education
Heads of various higher education institutions highlighted the importance of fostering leadership development for the grooming of future academic leaders to drive the transformation of the higher education sector. They emphasised…
Fall of an education giant
I moved to the US and attended university only a few years after 9/11. At the time, the country was fighting wars on two fronts, Afghanistan and Iraq. The 9/11…
