India's Primary Duty
Rakesh Mani Nov 1, 2009 interacts: 20How 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: 149Over 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: 2The 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: 8The 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: 3While 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: 50It 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: 5Qatar 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: 75Naked 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: 95What 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: 109The 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: 73Education 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: 517The 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: 0Both 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: 198300% 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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