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India's Primary Duty

Rakesh Mani   Nov 1, 2009   interacts: 20

How can we get a society of adults to be accountable for the treatment of its youngest citizens?

Indian Technical Recession

Sharad Chandra   Sep 18, 2009   interacts: 149

Over last decade or so, engineering institutions have produced mostly bankers, some managers but very few engineers. Even if some opted for technical career, it

The Four Year Itch

Ammara Ahmad   Sep 17, 2009   interacts: 2

The chief minister of Punjab recently announced that 32 universities in Punjab adopt the four years honors system. The rationale being to meet international standards

National Educational Policy - A Change On The Way?

Salman Latif   Sep 13, 2009   interacts: 8

The present take by the government, if carried out as put in the writing, would be a grand influence in changing the trends of academia.

Student Politics

Salman Latif   Sep 7, 2009   interacts: 3

While government does away with the ban on student unions, can that alone suffice to address the campus realities?

Teaching for India

Rakesh Mani   Jul 20, 2009   interacts: 50

It is an unfortunate fact that despite India’s rapid economic ascent and her emergence on the global stage, millions of Indian citizens are still left

Doha Educates

Maina Raza   Mar 8, 2009   interacts: 5

Qatar is a small country that has staked its future on education but it seems that this important initiative is paying off.

How Greed Ruins Academia

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Feb 12, 2009   interacts: 75

Naked greed is now destroying the moral fibre of academia. Professors across the country are clamoring to lift even minimal requirements that could assure quality

World Bank Help For Pakistan’s Education – A Poisoned Chalice?

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Jan 21, 2009   interacts: 95

What Pakistan needs from the Bank is help for improving the dilapidated infrastructure of ordinary colleges where the bulk of Pakistani students in higher education

Reckoning Time for HEC

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Oct 30, 2008   interacts: 109

The new HEC head, yet to be appointed, has a difficult task ahead. One hopes that he or she will have the dynamism and eloquence

Common Sense Left Behind

Prashant Bhatt   Oct 23, 2008   interacts: 1

The principal called her and told -“We have prepared the school-leaving certificate of your child. Please sign it and then

Educational Practices in Private Schools in Pakistan

Farzana Tahir   Aug 28, 2008   interacts: 73

Education has becomes an act of depositing. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat.

Muslim Ghettoisation

Iftikhar Ahmad   Jul 4, 2008   interacts: 517

The perception among Muslims is that they are unwelcome in Britain is undermining efforts to help them integrate into wider society.

Looking Towards a Brighter Future

Fiza Asar   May 31, 2008   interacts: 14

Being born in a farmer’s family in a small conservative village of Punjab, I could only wish that her intelligence

Theatricality in Painting

Nadeem Alam   Feb 28, 2008   interacts: 0

Both meaningful genres depict emotions related to life, most of the time, emotions of tragedy, and in between cheerful emotions of joy, for a change!

Pakistan's Universities - Problems and Solutions

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Jan 27, 2008   interacts: 198

300% jump in research publications, nine new engineering universities with European faculty, 3000 Pakistani students sent overseas for higher-degrees...self-serving lies, half-truths and deceit.

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