The author works independently as a teacher/researcher and is interested in politics of education reforms. He can be reached at imuzaffar@gmail.com
It is important for the stakeholders in education to recognise that more and urgently important aspects of education are escaping our attention
A calculated attempt to understand the relationship between pedagogy and philosophy of mathematics
What sort of beliefs about the nature of mathematics should undergird the curriculum and instruction when we live in a world that requires...
Teaching will never become a profession until teachers assume control of knowledge production, gate-keeping and professional ethics
Compulsory schooling is the only option as there is no other institution solely available to teach the full range of civic virtues for a better...
The participants of the national conference on education, held immediately after independence in November 1947, thought of Pakistan as a modern,...
Human civilization has not always entertained the idea of universal education. Indeed, it has only been in the last three hundred years or so that...
"For heaven’s sake why?" an educator friend retorted on my suggestion that the growth in private schools, low cost or not, was not a sign of...
In the last two articles on the examinations, I have argued that Pakistan’s examination system at the secondary and intermediate levels is...
Examinations work like magnets with which the instruction in the classrooms must align itself in order to be judged as ‘effective’. All...
Large-scale standardised tests are supposed to be permeating our education system at a fast pace. Punjab, through Punjab Examination Commission ,...
If you worry about the state of education in Pakistan, it is highly likely that you are familiar with the term standards. Standards have been...
Standardised testing as a strategy has worked to tame the sheer complexity and uncertainty of the process of education for as long as it has been...
Do private schools produce better learning outcomes than the public schools? Are they more efficient compared with the public schools? How should...
The possible role of teacher unions in supporting education reforms was in the highlights in the last week of December after their representatives...
After reading my last article, which questioned the smartness of Punjab government’s plans to develop the smart school system, I received...
The only reason for existence of public policies is to provide necessary public services to the public in the best possible manner. To provide...
No one disputes the perception that our public sector schools have failed to provide a decent education to children. But the way the society has...
