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![]() Dr Ayesha RazzaqueThe News International |
The year 2001 saw the release of Steven Spielberg’s film ‘A.I. - Artificial Intelligence’. It was accompanied by a website featuring a chatbot,...
A 2020 report by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), titled ‘State of graduate unemployment in Pakistan’, put the unemployment...
The game is afoot in Punjab. The Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) is the provincial cousin of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in...
This is a year-end review of the most important events in the education sector in 2022 and a forecast of how some of those issues will continue to...
In 2021, the PTI government embarked on an effort to cut down the authority of the chairman of the HEC of the time. On paper, the effort looked like...
The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT) is preparing to interview applicants for the position of Vice-chancellor (VC) for...
In my last op-ed (October 19) on the issue of the attempted land grab of Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) to build a bypass road I opined that it is a...
Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of...
These days, if you talk to anyone in government about any new program or initiative, really anything that will cost money, the response is often the...
There is an ancient view of the world according to which the Earth was a flat disk. That disk had to be supported by something. So, it was imagined...
I was recently talking to a faculty member, a fellow Gen-Xer, at a major UK university and he shared an observation he made at the start of the new...
The writer (she/her) has a PhD in Education. Fall is upon us and at many universities around the world that means the beginning of yet another...
Writing about education issues in our country is taxing, because much of it boils down to identifying a lot of shortcomings, bad priorities and poor...
Two years ago, my kid was in the college/ university admissions application phase. I asked her what factors were most important to her when deciding...
The Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Services (ITES) sector has been among the fastest growing in Pakistan’s economy. IT exports for...