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Learning: slow and steady

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...

25.10.2024 100

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For the people?

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...

11.10.2024 80

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‘Nasty, brutish, and short’

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...

27.09.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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...

15.09.2024 40

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Trapped in a cul-de-sac

PAKISTAN is currently facing many crises. Some have even referred to these times as a period of ‘polycrisis’. The economic situation has been bad...

13.09.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: PREPARING THE TEACHERS

Teaching and Teacher Education in Pakistan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives By Anjum Halai Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-969-7347-60-5...

01.09.2024 70

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Infrastructure blues

LAHORE has traffic jams and traffic congestion in the morning and afternoon; not when offices/businesses open and close, but when school sessions...

30.08.2024 80

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Admissions game

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,...

16.08.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: CAN AI CHANGE EDUCATION?

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionise Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing) By Salman Khan Viking ISBN: 978-0593656952 272pp. Artificial...

11.08.2024 200

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Squaring circles

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...

02.08.2024 100

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Bottom of the pile

LAST semester, an acquaintance taught, as adjunct faculty, a course at a very well-known and probably the best public sector university in the...

19.07.2024 100

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Taxing the taxed

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...

05.07.2024 100

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Higher education up the creek

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,...

21.06.2024 200

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No country for the young

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...

07.06.2024 300

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An interesting initiative

PUNJAB’S School Education Department (SED) has recently set up ‘student councils’ in public sector elementary, high and higher secondary...

24.05.2024 300

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Merging for what?

THE Punjab education minister recently announced that his government is going to merge the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB), the Punjab...

16.05.2024 100

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Education emergency

ON Wednesday, the prime minister announced an education emergency at a conference in Islamabad. Though post-18th Amendment, education has been a...

10.05.2024 200

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‘This is Pakistan…’

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...

26.04.2024 200

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Support for boys

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...

29.03.2024 100

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Punjabi in schools

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...

15.03.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: HOW WE GOT HERE

Development Pathways: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 1947-2022 By Ishrat Husain with Sarah Nizamani, Shagufta Shabbar and Masood Ahmed Siddiqui...

03.03.2024 40

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Karachi diary

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...

01.03.2024 70

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New realities

THE state or powerful institutions or people within the state using the law to target individuals and social media to undermine, destabilise and...

16.02.2024 100

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Education and manifestos

DO party manifestos show intentions? Going by past record, they do not. Hardly ever have parties adhered to manifestos. But manifestos do show what...

02.02.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: INTERSECTIONS OF POWER AND TECHNOLOGY

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson Basic Books ISBN: 9781399804455...

21.01.2024 50

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AI in education

INVESTMENTS in artificial intelligence are massive ($94 billion in 2021 alone). They will continue as people see profit-making potential in them. We...

19.01.2024 200

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State-backed impunity

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...

05.01.2024 100

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Tourism and mindset

PAKISTAN has deserts, beaches and some of the world’s highest, most stunning mountains. We have plenty of religious, cultural and heritage sites...

22.12.2023 100

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Mathematics and science

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...

08.12.2023 100

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