Populism Must Not Obfuscate Our Existing Madrasah System’s Role In Religious Extremism
Imran Khan and his close political associates are well known for their support and admiration for the Islamist extremist groups...
Monday, January 30, 2023
Education
25 Years Later – Takeaways From A High School Reunion
Remember your adolescence? Do you recall how often we would be (oh so) morbidly preoccupied with how we appeared to...
What I Learned About Doing Your Academic Research Effectively
Conducting research – proper research if you may – is no walk in the park. But in Pakistan, it’s like...
Positive Psychology And Today’s Education: What We Can Learn From Singapore
Education is a tool that people can use to systematically reshape their lives. The history of education shows that educators...
Rediscovering Eqbal With An E
In my early days in university, I endeavoured to participate in the class discussion about US incursions into various countries...
Authorities Must Save Gordon College From Attempts To Return To The Colonial Era
Recent developments in the history of Gordon College, Rawalpindi, are, indeed, extremely ominous: not only for the students of the...
How Benazir Bhutto’s First Government Tried To Tackle Pakistan’s Lingering Literacy Problem
After taking over the reins of power in 1993, the PPP government under the premiership of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto established...
The Thin Veneer Of Diversity
In contemporary American society, identity politics appears to have been increasingly appropriated by the ruling elite to serve their own...
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...
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...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Pakistan Can’t Afford To Spend Rs14bn On Imran Khan’s 33 By-Elections
It’s people’s democratic right to select their political...
What’s In A Name: Changing The Name Of The Mughul Gardens
Recently the name of Mughal Gardens in Rashtrapati...