Help Secure the Future of Pakistan
Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. In our country security is a luxury only reserved for some, and it is a blessing if you are a part of the percentage...
View ArticleMy School in the Village
At last my village had Coeducation-school. First of its kind in the village in last 200 years (and before that village did not exist). So I was sent to the most modern and broad minded school of its...
View ArticleGrades Don’t Make a Scholar
Unfortunately the higher your grades are the more erudite you’re considered. In fact grades don’t reflect one’s intellect. Who knows you might have scored straight As by cramming. You may be a 4...
View ArticleArticle 25-A: Right to Education
Pakistan faces many challenges in education; these include huge disparities in opportunities, particularly for the rural poor and girls, poor quality education, low enrollment and completion rates,...
View ArticleQissa Bar Aks : The Untold Story
The recent federal budget allocated for education for the fiscal year 2012-13, just 1.8% .A big hue and cry has been raised as to how a population of 187 million can be serviced with this amount. As...
View ArticleThree Macabre News Items and the Right to Education
You do not need millions to die or be tortured, humiliated and harassed, sometimes even three are enough to make a landmark claim to 25 A as a compelling act by the State and its upholders who make...
View ArticleEducation is a Task – Pay Heed
The term ‘Education Emergency’ remained a fancy slogan for me from day one that I heard it, coming out in a mechanical gush from the mouth of a foreign presenter reading his call paper at a conference...
View ArticleThe Long Road to School
Just over six decades from Independence, Pakistan must reconcile itself to the fact that it has not yet made good on the intention of its founders to guarantee basic education to each of this country’s...
View ArticleInequality in Education
Educational opportunities available in Pakistan are of a very diverse nature. There are deep divisions based on regional disparities, rural-urban location, gender, income and wealth of parents, medium...
View ArticleSinging to Educate
One of the most emotive images are of young, fragile shoulders carrying twice the load as their own weight, angelic faces marked with the miseries of the material world. Thinking it could be the piece...
View ArticleGovernance Issues in Girls Education
Our education system has many problems and these have been well documented and researched in education literature in the country and they are well known. We do not have enough schools, facilities are...
View ArticleNothing Right about Right To Education
We Demand Protection of this Right for ALL Children The horrifying news of attack on Malala Yousafzai – the young champion for girls education – cannot but be received by utter disgust and despair....
View ArticleEducation is Not For Elites Alone
“Each day around a quarter of the country’s teachers do not turn up to school” – Sir Michael Barber, Co-chair, Pakistan Education Task Force Peela Schools and our education systems With the...
View ArticleLet’s be Clear on ‘Pakistan ka Matlab Kya?’
A lot has been enchanted on twitter, facebook, blogs and other muzzling protests opposing the Geo TV campaign of “Parhne likhnay k siwa Pakistan ka matlab kya”? Let me say that being the supra-genius...
View ArticleOur Shackling Education: A Tale of Woe
The decision between right and wrong requires reasons and for establishing the reasons we need to have knowledge, which in turn demands education. In Pakistan, it is an established fact that quality...
View ArticleA Rat Race for Admission Tests
In a couple months from now, our country is going to witness a magnificent feat where the participants are nation’s young breed who are to be sieved through. The successful, rather lucky ones, will be...
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