Education – a recap and what to expect
This is a year-end review of the most important events in the education sector in 2022 and a forecast of how some of those issues will continue to play out…
Portrait of a different generation
I was recently talking to a faculty member, a fellow Gen-Xer, at a major UK university and he shared an observation he made at the start of the new academic…
Why have we become so brutalized?
What has happened to our society? Surely, we were not always like this. In the last few months, and before that, we have seen case after case of the most…
What is our capacity scorecard?
By the time you read this article, Shehbaz Sharif is most likely to have been voted in as the prime minister of Pakistan. When columnists like myself will look back…
Tackling a toxic legacy
One of the most toxic legacies of PTI chief Imran Khan is the weaponization of religion. Perhaps after Gen Zia, he is the second head of government who has employed…
Wiping the SNC slate
This op-ed is not another technical analysis of the Single National Curriculum (SNC). Over the last two years, several people (including me) have collectively contributed an archive of at least…
The forever problem
Education is good! Everyone in the world, except people like the Taliban, agrees to that. The question that remains is: where do countries, particularly countries like ours that lag far…
Messing with education
Education in Pakistan has been perpetually in peril. Not because the government did not have resources; it had them for all other purposes, including some wrong ones. Mainly education has…
Lessons in school reforms
Pakistan has struggled to maintain any kind of standard at both government and private schools across the country. While private schools often claim to offer the best education and learning…
Every job but their own
Writing about education issues in our country is taxing, because much of it boils down to identifying a lot of shortcomings, bad priorities and poor decision making. We spent the…
