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Articles with tag: students

Long March

kashkin dabruski   Jun 11, 2008   interacts: 42

In 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 Politics in Pakistan: A Profile

Nadeem F Paracha   Feb 28, 2008   interacts: 130

Student 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: 328

This 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: 2

As 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: 16

The 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: 10

Our 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.

Imran Khan at LUMS

Ammar Rashid   Nov 4, 2007   interacts: 145

Amidst 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: 2

Several 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.

A Nation Reborn

Shaheryar Akbar   Mar 20, 2007   interacts: 71

Just 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

Education: An Abysmal Situation

Yahya Noori   May 25, 2005   interacts: 25

The 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: 13

Cheating is going on in the SAT.. and everyone seems blind to it.

The Responsibility of Students

Nima Shirali   Sep 16, 2004   interacts: 15

I 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: 8

Each 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: 67

Despite 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

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: 32

Many feminist movements have started an active campaign to get single-sex schools established in large numbers.

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