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Private schools and you

Much applause and many complaints are on display for the government’s response to Covid-19 thus far. This is to be expected. But an area that is not being focused on…

The Paradox Of Private Schools

The paradox of private schools

We all hate private schools. Yet, we all send our children to them. According to available figures, 40 percent of school-going children in the country now attend privately-run institutions. The…

Protests And Private Schools

Protests and private schools

By the time today’s newspaper gets delivered and read, a handful of angry parents would have assembled at Liberty roundabout to hold a protest against fee hikes by private schools…

Schools and climate

AS a mother of two school-going children, the record-breaking heatwave experienced in Karachi this year has heightened my concern about the growing impact of climate change on our children’s health,…

Drugs in schools

OUR schoolchildren are at risk. It is not the system of education that makes them vulnerable to social evils such as drug addiction (substance use disorder, or SUD in medical…

The forgotten schools of Islamabad

Discussions about education often broadly categorize institutions in our local school education sector as public schools, private schools (with the most expensive segment among them referred to as ‘elite schools’)…

Private education

As progressives, we always believed that it is the state’s responsibility to provide quality education to the people, especially to the underprivileged. However, since the 1990s, the state has stepped…

STEAM-powered schools

The minister leaned forward and asked, “What are you building?” The girl responded: “a robotic arm.” This exchange did not happen at an engineering university or a fancy private school.…

Eliminating private school competition

Our politicians are fond of portraying themselves as populists by brushing aside concerns of private school going children with the argument that those are the concerns of a small elite.…

Low-income schools may be provided loans

A parliamentary panel was told on Tuesday that the government is mulling over providing loans to low-income schools, affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. National Assembly Standing Committee on Education, which…