AI in education
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now finding a multitude of applications across different educational levels – from primary schools to universities – for enhancing teaching, learning and research processes. One of…
Higher education in distress
The disqualification of now-former chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Khalid Khursheed by the GB Chief Court on a fake foreign degree charge has once again highlighted the Higher Education Commission’s…
Responsible management education
“We need to move from a global business education community which focuses on making our students the best in the world, to making them the best for the world”. Mark…
Disasters and educational infrastructure – Part II
In Pakistan, there are about 23 million children that are out of school, and 22 million children are enrolled in low-quality government schools. The country’s National Human Development Report (NHDR)…
Lifting the quality of education
The 2023 World University Rankings were published recently by the Times Higher Education (THE). Three Asian universities are ranked among the top 20. These are Tsinghua University (No 16), Peking…
Charter of education
We are living in 2022 – in fact, almost at the halfway mark of 2022. Back in the 1980s or even 1990s people would perhaps do anything to somehow have…
Jeopardizing access to legal education
A recent alarming post on social media by an official of the Punjab Bar Council regarding inability of ‘private’ students preparing for external LLB examinations to apply for and acquire…
Education emergency
SAADIA has been teaching science to Grade 8 students at a government school in Lahore’s outskirts for 15 years. Every day, she enters the classroom, starts lecturing and the students…
Devolution and national education
The 18th Amendment to the constitution of Pakistan was passed in 2010 and among the changes it introduced was the devolution of many powers and responsibilities from the center to…
PMC taking steps to standardise medical education: ministry
While students and associations of private medical and dental colleges have been critical of Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC), the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) in a performance report claimed…
