Archive | January, 2008
Investigative strategies
Sometimes I used to ponder what pulls me in research. Either this is my surrounding arena, my mental vision to percept objects and facts differently or simple inquisitiveness which dragged me to investigative strategies. ‘Research’ is a word which more or less every student encounters very often. Research can be visualised and perceived as painstaking methodical [...]
Continue reading...Campus unrest
31. January 2008
Most of the programmes and policies that the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has introduced so far, especially the ones pertaining to raising the bar for academic excellence, face resistance in the already established universities. The resistance is spearheaded by teachers who are hardly known outside their own departments. And if they are, it is more [...]
Continue reading...The second benchers
31. January 2008
Girls’ access to school as compared to boys’ continues to be a crises area in Pakistan. There is no denying the fact that the country has not been able to ensure gender equality during the last six decades. Meager budgetary allocations; non-conducive social environment; restricted movement of girls; shortage of female teachers in schools; and [...]
Continue reading...Access, quality and relevance
31. January 2008
RAPID advances in science and technology, especially during the last several decades, have led to a division of the world into a few countries which have advanced rapidly and become producers of technology-based products and processes, leaving other nations behind. In this new world in which innovation determines progress, Pakistan has made a late but [...]
Continue reading...Hoping for new policies in education
31. January 2008
PAKISTAN is getting ready for the election process. Assemblies will be formed and hopefully complete their tenure. New policies will be planned and many reforms will be introduced. However, it is good to keep the major concerns of the nation in view before planning policies. Although, everyone is familiar with concerns of education in Pakistan [...]
Continue reading...Of bumpy rides and bungalow schools
31. January 2008
IN the early morning hours of a chilly December day, three school buses broke down at the civic centre junction of University Road and pupils bound for a Clifton school could not appear in their midterm examination. This was not an unusual happening. Whether in heavy downpour or under the scorching heat of the sun, school [...]
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31. January 2008
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