Articles with tag: Higher education
How Greed Ruins Academia
Pervez Hoodbhoy Feb 11, 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 education.
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 study, not more half-baked universities.
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 of Dr Atta-ur-Rahman, but not the flaws.
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.
Foreign Factor in our Higher Education
Muhammad FarooqiAzam Nov 18, 2007 interacts: 10Our whole system of education is working in such a way to produce good high-tech workforce for European and American markets. Irony is we do this at our own expense.
The Power of Ideas and the Modern University
Pervez Hoodbhoy Sep 11, 2007 interacts: 60Ideas rule the world, drive our actions, inform our beliefs, and unleash mighty revolutions. How must Pakistan’s higher education system change for it to succeed?
NED Alumni Convention 2007
Ras Siddiqui Aug 30, 2007 interacts: 25Alumni of NED University, founded in 1921, are gathering on September 8, 2007 in Silicon Valley in their largest ever NEDian convention.
Has Higher Education Failed India?
Abhishek Behl May 17, 2006 interacts: 126The great Indian universities have become mafia rackets where the teachers are the great mafiosi holding the future of the youth and the country to ransom
And Dr. Shahid Hussain Bokhari Quits…
Omer Cheema Nov 3, 2005 interacts: 93Why another world famous researcher and a dedicated teacher left Pakistan while HEC claims that its policies are supporting higher education and research in the country.
Reforms! What Reforms?
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jul 8, 2005 interacts: 126Pervez Hoodbhoy, a leading thinker and educationist in Pakistan is the latest target for the mindless policy makers running Pakistan. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, the same people, after all, have tried to stifle the voices of many others –
