Tag: universities

The recent crackdown on student groups at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad has again brought the issue of student unions ...

In 1984, student unions were banned by the Ziaul Haq dictatorship. The 1968 movement in Pakistan that later overthrew Ayub ...

Today, our country presents a very pathetic picture which makes a sensible person very disappointed. Despite the rapid changes made ...

In my early days in university, I endeavoured to participate in the class discussion about US incursions into various countries ...

A recent letter from the chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC) is doing the rounds of offices of vice chancellors ...

Disability is not, and will never be, a choice. This is something one never wants to be. But let's face ...

We were informed back in 18th century by a Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius, the first Swedish noble laureate, that changes ...

“The most important rule of educational leadership is to always remember that people, not policies or program, are what highly ...

 “Learning conducted via electronic media, typically on the internet” – Oxford Dictionary In Pakistan, the practice of e-learning existed before ...

The words 'English legal scholarship' though high sounding have a similar function to the words 'disposable paper cup'. Each adjective ...

Academic advancement signifies that one's academic achievements are recognised in the actual world. Academic acknowledgment has a specific meaning for ...

This picture speaks loudly to why our universities rank at the bottom of international rankings. Universities are meant for research ...

The writer served as the Vice Chancellor at University of Sargodha and the Pakistan Chair at University of Oxford.

Extremism is a state of mind where a person holds extreme and narrow-minded political and religious views of their own ...