Quality education
The federal government is finally going ahead with its ambitious plan to align the parallel education systems in the country with its much-vaunted Single National Curriculum (SNC) in August this…
Education: PTI’s plan exposed
BE prepared, Pakistan! Imran Khan’s government is poised to inflict damage upon this country’s education system in a manner never seen before. Its so-called Single National Curriculum (SNC) hides systemic…
A national education emergency
The first 2.5 years of government by the PTI were extremely challenging because of the financial chaos that the present government inherited. Now, as things have stabilised, we can look…
Citizenship education in Pakistan
There was a time in Pakistan up until the 1970s that we taught civics as a subject to our students at school and college levels. Then as the military dictatorship…
Education developments
The first foreign university, the Pakistan Austrian Fachhochschule with five departments and four major postgraduate research centers of excellence, started to function last month in Haripur Hazara, within a record…
Adult education
MUCH like little worms that go unseen when hiding in apples but are revealed when the apple is eaten, disruption in education has shown us the mess we have created…
Post-Covid-19 education crisis: what next?
In most countries the academic year was fast approaching its tail-end and many countries adopted different strategies to address this crisis. In Pakistan, students from grade 1-8 were auto promoted…
Education: over-diagnosed and under-treated
We hope Sarmad Masud's My Pure Land manages an Oscar in the foreign language films category. Even if it doesn't, the redoubtable Waderi Nazo Dharejo of Qazi Ahmed, the subject…
HEC undertakes number of initiatives to improve quality education
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has undertaken a number of initiatives for continuous improvement of quality of higher education in accordance with fast-paced world. According to the sources, HEC revamped…
Current education system, a prison to ideas of west
The prevailing education system in the country is borrowed from the west, which gives us knowledge but not wisdom. Rather, it is a prison of ideas of the west and…
