Licence to thrive
A PROFESSIONAL licence, whether for driving, medicine, engineering or law, creates conditions which compel a person to adhere to certain standards before being allowed to practise the profession. Medicine perhaps…
Modern challenges, modern solutions
Last month, Pakistan participated in the Education World Forum (May 9-22), an annual gathering of education ministers and experts from over 114 countries in London. The theme of the conference…
Improving skills
MANY teachers complain about the lack of continuous professional development opportunities or resources to update their teaching and learning skills. Like any other profession, teaching calls for creating opportunities on…
Kafkaesque set-up
THE emerging contours of our new set-up depict a murky labyrinth hiding the conflicting pulls of the elite interests of multiple power centres, none of them aligned with the public…
Students in 2022
The latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results – released on December 5, 2023 – provides valuable insights into the academic performance and well-being of 15-year-old students from 81…
High-performing nations
Far Eastern countries have consistently demonstrated exceptional performance in various jurisdictions tested under the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) over the past two decades. Notably, the reading literacy of…
Peace or surrender?
After innumerable delays and amidst uncertainty, the intra-Afghan talks process was kicked off in Doha on September 12, 2020. However, the difficulties surrounding the process have been highlighted by the…
South Africa hikes troop deployment against looters Jul 16, 2021
The death toll in South Africa’s unrest rose to 117 on Thursday as the country called up its army reserves in a bid to quell looting that has stoked fears…
Taliban battle for final holdout province of Panjshir
Anti-Taliban fighters in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley said Friday they were battling to repulse “heavy” assaults, as the Islamists seek to capture the last holdout province defying their rule. Efforts to…
Conspiracy epidemic, born in US, spreads in Europe
“It’s not a virus, it’s a tool to use power,” says Monique Lustig in the Netherlands, while in Germany, Hellmuth Mendel argues that “Covid is a story invented by an…
