Articles with tag: universities
Student Politics
Salman Latif Aug 24, 2009 interacts: 3While government does away with the ban on student unions, can that alone suffice to address the campus realities?
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?
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.
