Articles with tag: student
Long March
kashkin dabruski Jun 11, 2008 interacts: 42In thousands, we will march, for change
Hear you will my friends, not far away
The days of change and nights of comfort
Walk with me, as each step gathers its storm
Student Movement Revisited
S Haroon Ahmed and Saleem Asmi Apr 6, 2008 interacts: 25Dr Haroon Ahmed and Saleem Asmi, two stalwarts of the first student movement in Pakistan, the Democratic Students Federation (DSF) write to set the record straight about DSF.
Student Politics in Pakistan: A Profile
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 28, 2008 interacts: 130Student politics in Pakistan has had a history of mixed fortunes and shades. Though extremely tumultuous, it is also a history of rich democratic traditions.
Monday Morning Blast in Rawalpindi ... An eyewitness account
Sabahat Vahidy Feb 4, 2008 interacts: 328This morning marked the first day of classes for the current batch of officers chosen from around the country to take the Unit Command Course. Five of them never signed-in today.
Muffled Voices on Campuses
Ahsan Raza Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 2As private universities are abuzz with anti-emergency chants, students of Government College and FC College, Lahore have also adopted ways to express themselves politically.
Go Jamiat Go
Raza Hamdani Nov 20, 2007 interacts: 16The students have announced loud and clear that they no longer want the Jamiat over their head.
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.
Pressures Mount on Pervez Musharraf
Beena Sarwar Nov 15, 2007 interacts: 11"The judges by not taking oath, the lawyers and civil society by resisting have shown the way. The media is standing by them. This is one battle the General is sure to lose"
Imran Khan at LUMS
Ammar Rashid Nov 4, 2007 interacts: 145Amidst speculation of the imposition of emergency in the country by the state, Imran was here to speak about the role of the youth in the country’s political future.
Ragging: A Sickness in our Educational System and Society
Rohit Chopra Oct 8, 2007 interacts: 2Several incidents of ragging have been reported at Indian colleges, some involving acts of brutal violence perpetrated on helpless first year students by groups of senior students.
Dead End
Xari Jalil Apr 13, 2007 interacts: 12When Faraz Ehmad, a student of Karachi University, killed himself by jumping off one of the highest buildings in the city, his friends, though deeply saddened, were not surprised. They all knew, in fact had known for a long time, that Faraz was suicidal a
A Nation Reborn
Shaheryar Akbar Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 71Just when I thought my people would once again silently ignore this new form of oppression, and resign themselves to a fate written by politicians and generals, they responded! They awoke! They said in one voice, “enough is enough!” I have ne
Recognising Student Unions
Xari Jalil Dec 7, 2006 interacts: 12Prohibiting political parties on campus is in actuality curbing students’ rights. That is why there are clashes and conflicts as well as demonstrations and strikes by these so-called ‘banned’ or rather, half-functional student parties.
Student Politics In Pakistan
Nabeel Khan Jul 5, 2006 interacts: 4From the heydays of political activity in the 60s to the politically dormant entity of the 90s, a lot of change has taken place in student attitudes towards political activity. Who and/or what factors have been responsible for fomenting this attitude of a
Pedagogical Mockery and Plagiarism
Ali Memon Mar 14, 2006 interacts: 15The art of copy-pasting and compiling made its way in the education system through the student body. In order to stipulate effective anti-plagiarism policies, the authorities need to realize that there are other surging participants in the system that als
Encountering My Own Berlin Wall
Rezwan Bajwa Jan 31, 2006 interacts: 3‘Now what is a foreigner doing in Berlin tonight!’ exclaimed an old man in the Berlin street. Racism was something I had prepared myself for. This old man was harmless when compared to the militant neo-Nazi outfits in Moscow
Finding My Feet in London
Ibrahim M Khalil Jan 10, 2006 interacts: 12In Pakistan, when someone did not go straight home from work, it was assumed that he was having trouble with his wife, mother or kids. In London, nobody goes home directly; we have pubs
Education: An Abysmal Situation
Yahya Noori May 25, 2005 interacts: 25The sons and daughters of the most privileged class study in Cambridge system, the less privileged ones, in private schools and appear under metric system of examination; the poor, in so called “yellow schools” with ghost teachers.
The SAT Scam
Maliha Aqueel May 19, 2005 interacts: 13Cheating is going on in the SAT.. and everyone seems blind to it.
Children of Dictatorship
Afiya Shehrbano Feb 10, 2005 interacts: 44I have always referred to my contemporaries as Zia’s children... We were socialised in a culture of sectarian and communal hate, drugs, guns, Pajeros, and with a false consciousness based only on abstinence. Not much has changed in this generation o
The Responsibility of Students
Nima Shirali Sep 16, 2004 interacts: 15I started my university studies with the expectation of elevating my level of academic understanding. I was of the notion that I would be entering a “sanctuary for free thought”. Yet, the notion of this “sanctuary” was violently br
Teachers and the Impact they have on Students
Hafsa Ahsan Sep 9, 2004 interacts: 8Each student will not have the same potential. Each will be challenged in some way. It is up to me, as a teacher, to find the 'key' that unlocks each child’s ability to maximize his full potential and inspires him to learn.
What’s the Taj Mahal like from the inside? And Other Stories
Rohit De Jul 18, 2004 interacts: 67Despite coming all the way from Bangalore to Lahore to debate, all six of us at the hall that morning were nervous at the thought of being cross examined by 40 schoolgirls
Ten Myths about Ragging
Shivam Vij Jul 2, 2004 interacts: 37As another academic session comes near, one wonders why freshers have to take off their clothes to ‘know’ their seniors
The Summer of 2001…
Aman Malik Jun 24, 2004 interacts: 8“If any of you cannot bear being ragged,” he said, “you might go to Hindu College (across the road from Stephen’s); if you are unable to face that even, then my boys you may take admission in Miranda House (the only college that al
Problems with Co-Education
Hafsa Ahsan Jun 5, 2004 interacts: 32Many feminist movements have started an active campaign to get single-sex schools established in large numbers.
Cosmetic Surgery
Quartulain Siddiqui Feb 24, 2004 interacts: 11Karachi University Students must now wear black gowns while they’re inside the campus ...the decision was taken so that teachers could be distinguished from students, and not get beaten up during the occasional clashes between political groups.
Boston
Bina Shah Oct 10, 2003 interacts: 43The joy at having the customs official at Logan look at my passport and my visa and say, 'You’re going to Wellesley? That’s fantastic. I wish I could have gone to Wellesley.'
Of Enmity, Freedom, And Other Things
Quartulain Siddiqui Oct 3, 2003 interacts: 21It is a sad fact that many of our educational institutions are being abused for purposes that are not only unacademic but are also generating enmity and paranoia among people.
