How We Could Move From Churning Out ‘Research’ To Actually Valuable Research
Academic advancement signifies that one's academic achievements are recognised in the actual world. Academic acknowledgment has a specific meaning for...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Education
How A Pakistani Professor At Rutgers Faces Attempts To Drive Her Out
Letter_Rutgers Academics from a wide variety of backgrounds, in a letter addressed to the Chancellor at Rutgers University (Newark, NJ)...
Bringing Education To A Troubled Post-Conflict Zone – A Teacher’s Perspective
“Those lacking in vision should not join a teaching job. An educator, in fact, is the agent of change in...
Zooming In On The Trouble With Higher Education And Research Institutions In Pakistan
This picture speaks loudly to why our universities rank at the bottom of international rankings. Universities are meant for research...
How Educators Can Actively Work Towards Improving Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
Many different definitions of critical thinking exist in the world today, but the most common definition is “analyses of facts,...
Why We Must Save The HEC From Collapse
It is now about a year since Pakistan’s higher education has been besieged by crisis. The situation was already not...
Assessing Covid-19’s Impact On Education, Through Pakistan’s Largest Survey Of Its Kind
The global endeavour to ensure that all children obtain a good education has been seriously hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic...
Dr. Salam Wanted To Change Jhang, Pakistan And The World – But His Own Country Would Not Accept Him
Dr. Salam was born on the 29th of January 1926 in the conservative religious environment in Jhang, Punjab, Pakistan. He...
Out-Class: A Digital Alternative To Tuition Academies
When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, people across the world were forced to rethink the way in which they conducted...
‘There’s Too Much Patronage-Related Hierarchy In Pakistan’
Ideas and Futures is an e-journal that focuses on "re-imagining our societies beyond the pandemic". The journal, edited by Sadia...
Wall Of Abandoned School In Umerkot District Collapses, Killing Two Children
Two children were crushed to death under rubble when the wall of a derelict primary school collapsed at the village...
How Can LUMS Adopt A Less Draconian And More Rational Disciplinary Regime For Its Students?
A few days back, LUMS trended on Twitter again, for reasons that are not good. A number of news outlets...
What Holds My Village In Balochistan Back From Achieving Its Educational Potential
Herronk, a village some 60 km from Turbat city, has a population of more than 10,000 people. Although the villagers...
How To Make Children At Religious Schools Safe From Abuse: Towards A Madrassah Policy
Numbering more than 30,000 madrassahs, they often serve free education, food and sometimes shelter to around 4 million poor children...
History, The Historian’s Craft And South Asian History: A Study Plan
The story to prepare this study plan goes like this: after having worked in the development sector – designing, managing,...
Cash-Strapped And Visually Impaired, Mufti Abdul Haleem Is Determined To Educate Young Religious Scholars
Mufti Abdul Haleem is blind from birth but his thirst for knowledge enabled him to become a religious scholar well...
Equity, Education And The Single National Curriculum
Debates on the Single National Curriculum (SNC) are once again in full swing, with panels defending SNC religiously and criticism...
‘Reading 4 All’ – How One Student Is Helping To Bring Library Culture To Rural Schools
Reading 4 All is an initiative by an 18-year-old A-level student, Sameen Zahra Bashir. From a young age, her visits...
Covid Measures Hit Hard: International Students, Including Thousands Of Pakistanis, Call For Resumption Of Their Education In China
International students have been unable to return to their studies in China for 557 days now due to measures taken...
How Quaid-i-Azam University Improved Its Position In World Rankings: A Case Study In Leadership And Higher Education
Higher education around the world is evolving very fast. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has become the key factor in accelerating...
New Federal Dress Code Bans Jeans, Citing ‘Research’ About Perceptions
The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has issued its dress code for teachers working in federal government institutions. In support...
When Education Begins to Resemble a Happy Meal
FARZANA RASHEED REFLECTS ON HER DAUGHTER’S SCHOOL EXPERIENCES AND WHAT THEY SUGGEST FOR THE FUTURE OF PAKISTANI EDUCATION AND CULTURE
School for Peshawar’s Sikhs
Sohail Khattak reports on a community’s struggle for quality education
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Siddiqui Saints Of Pat Sharif
Pat Sharif was a historical village whose landscape...
Message Of The Madman
In literature, Existentialism starts from Dostoyevsky’s famous maxim...