Higher education ravaged
The HEC policies during the last three years led to a mushroom growth of 50 new universities, while simultaneously the programmes to develop highly qualified faculty were curtailed. Some 8,000…
Reforms: theory and practice
Institutional reforms are basic to good governance, and Pakistan is in dire need of such reforms – political to bureaucratic to the public sector. Pakistan has seen multiple phases of…
Online education
In the critical circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the decision by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to continue the education process through the internet was a laudable step. The…
Revamping undergraduate education
THE undergraduate degree is the flagship of any higher education system. However, in Pakistan very little attention was given in the past to the substance and quality of undergraduate education.…
Covid-19 education response
Across the world, nearly two billion students are suddenly not in their formal educational institutions. Shocked, the globe struggles with Zoom and Google Classroom to keep children and young adults…
Moot on education starts at NUML
Two-day National Conference on Education titled ‘Education in 21st Century: Expectations, Challenges, and Possibilities’ organised by Education department, faculty of Social Sciences started here at the National University of Modern…
Education and development
“When I was ambivalent about choosing a career path on my very first day as a new entrant to high school, I remember one of my teachers saying that one…
Education challenge
It is time we declared education emergency in the country. In fact, we should have done this yesterday. An estimated 25 million of our schoolgoing children are out there on…
Medical education
There is no doubt at all that medical education in our country needs to be modernised and set up along lines that conform to standards in other countries. It is…
Paradigms of education
The major educational challenge of the 21st century is the acquisition of new sets of skills required by students and teachers alike. These skills may include critical thinking, problem-solving, artificial…
