111 510 510 libonline@riphah.edu.pk Contact
Report Card Time

Report card time

ONE down, one to go — and the PML-N is already trying to limp back to life. Because it’s the PML-N, limping back is already beginning to look like the…

Prioritising Quality In Education

Prioritising quality in education

"Many South Asian teachers barely know more than their students. For example, surveys from India and Pakistan show that teachers perform poorly in math and language tests based on the…

Invigorating The Civil Service

Invigorating the civil service

The buzz word these days is governance. Some political analysts have argued that governance (or for that matter bad governance) was the main determinant of the 2013 election results. Where…

Higher Education

Higher education

To really find out how a country is going to do in the 21st century, one need not count its oil reserves or natural resources but its highly effective teachers,…

HEC: Points And Counterpoints

HEC: points and counterpoints

The provinces are responsible for higher education after the 18th Amendment: Not true. The 18th Amendment strengthens the role of the HEC as a federal entity by including standards of…

Governing higher education

Governance is the backbone of any education system. Over the years, I have consistently highlighted the material deficiencies in our educational governance – whether it pertains to basic or higher…

The IMF’s failed prescription

In September 2024, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $7 billion bailout package for Pakistan. Yet just four months ahead of the schedule, a surprise IMF mission arrived in…

Menace of tuitions

FOURTEEN-year-old Faiz leaves school at a quarter to two. There is just enough time for him to have lunch at home and be out again. His real day has just…

Promote the system

THE country is running on vibes and individual assessment of situations. Matters as trivial as the dilemma of reaching office on time to as grave as whether or not the…

Our anaemic exports

WHY are our exports less than half our imports? Why are our imports more than twice our exports? I have posed these seemingly identical questions because their answers are very…