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Faisal BariDawn |
A SEVEN-year-old recently asked me, while crying, why learning was so difficult and took so much time. She was trying to learn to read and write basic...
SOMETIME ago, I had to apply for a visit visa to a country that required a ‘police certificate’ as well. This was the first time I had heard of...
ON the roads we see drivers from the police department or cars with green number plates driving recklessly and aggressively as if they have the right...
How to be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and more on Each Other By C.L. Skach Basic Books ISBN: 978-1541605534 262pp. Recently, I was in...
PAKISTAN is currently facing many crises. Some have even referred to these times as a period of ‘polycrisis’. The economic situation has been bad...
Teaching and Teacher Education in Pakistan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives By Anjum Halai Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-969-7347-60-5...
LAHORE has traffic jams and traffic congestion in the morning and afternoon; not when offices/businesses open and close, but when school sessions...
GONE are the days when students would search and find college and university programmes to apply to by themselves or with the help of their parents,...
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionise Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing) By Salman Khan Viking ISBN: 978-0593656952 272pp. Artificial...
THREE people, who earn around Rs40,000 a month, approached me for help recently. Their electricity bills were Rs54,000, Rs24,000 and Rs23,000. I am...
LAST semester, an acquaintance taught, as adjunct faculty, a course at a very well-known and probably the best public sector university in the...
FOR all the rhetoric of this government and its banker finance minister, the budget has been a huge disappointment. It is the same old story of taxing...
IF memory serves me right, the following is from one of Mushtaq Yousufi’s books, possibly Zargazisht. He says that every time he went to his boss,...
A STUDENT is expelled for bringing a rubab to the university hostel and playing it. A university in Lahore expels two students when they embrace each...
PUNJAB’S School Education Department (SED) has recently set up ‘student councils’ in public sector elementary, high and higher secondary...
THE Punjab education minister recently announced that his government is going to merge the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB), the Punjab...
ON Wednesday, the prime minister announced an education emergency at a conference in Islamabad. Though post-18th Amendment, education has been a...
A YOUNG man cheated on one of his assignments. His professor referred the case to the relevant committee for investigation and adjudication. I was, at...
NO, the article is not about the ‘boys’ often referred to in Pakistan. It is actually about schooling and the need to think about the support that...
THE chief minister of Punjab, Ms Maryam Nawaz, has said that Punjabi will be taught across schools in the province. This was announced at the Punjab...
Development Pathways: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 1947-2022 By Ishrat Husain with Sarah Nizamani, Shagufta Shabbar and Masood Ahmed Siddiqui...
FOR a city this dynamic — it is the hub of commercial and business activity in the country — and for a city this size, Karachi’s infrastructure...
THE state or powerful institutions or people within the state using the law to target individuals and social media to undermine, destabilise and...
DO party manifestos show intentions? Going by past record, they do not. Hardly ever have parties adhered to manifestos. But manifestos do show what...
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson Basic Books ISBN: 9781399804455...
INVESTMENTS in artificial intelligence are massive ($94 billion in 2021 alone). They will continue as people see profit-making potential in them. We...
ALL of us must have seen at some point or the other, a man in police uniform driving his motorcycle the wrong way on a one-way street and not wearing...
PAKISTAN has deserts, beaches and some of the world’s highest, most stunning mountains. We have plenty of religious, cultural and heritage sites...
OVER recent years, a lot of organisations have come up — private and mostly in the not-for-profit sector — that are working for the larger...