Anjum Altaf

Anjum Altaf

  • SNC: what now?

    We have another opportunity to take a hard look at the Single National Curriculum that was implemented for grades 1-5 in Punjab and Khyber...

  • SNC: curiouser and curiouser

    I completed a page-by-page review of three model textbooks prepared for the Pre-1 Grade under the Single National Curriculum. I had intended to...

  • Arabic as panacea?

    How convenient it is for people to earn brownie points at the cost of others and with no cost to themselves. The Senate approved, with just one...

  • Language and instruction

    I have to disagree with the opinion on language and the medium of instruction expressed by M Zeb Khan . The writer has identified the key issue but...

  • Language puzzles: Part - II

    The second half of the programme focused on the plight of native languages and asked if they were dying in Pakistan and what might be done to arrest...

  • Language puzzles - Part I

    On November 14, I participated in an event jointly organized by the Ma Boli Centre of the Institute for Art and Culture and the Trust for History,...

  • Not to question why

    As an academic, I welcome the defence of the Single National Curriculum offered by Zulfiqar Ali Shaikh from the Ministry of Education. It provides...

  • Knowledge and power

    Everyone interested in education knows Macaulay and his ‘Minute on Education’, the basis of the English Education Act of 1835, that determined...

  • Language of instruction

    Almost every account of colonialism describes how the colonists planned to use education as a means of stabilizing and strengthening their rule....

  • A better way to teach

    The Single National Curriculum has some very laudable objectives including raising good human beings and promoting inclusiveness and tolerance. It...

  • Fair and fluent

    Neelam Hanif has mounted a passionate defence of English as the medium of instruction but I fear the passion is misspent.Look at the beginning:...

  • No minister, yes minister

    The minister for education has written an opinion defending the Single National Curriculum . It fails in its objectives but I am grateful to the...

  • The pandemic as a learning opportunity

    The Covid-19 pandemic has hit education hard. Schools and colleges have been closed since March which has resulted in a lot of handwringing, with...

  • Political economy of the SNC

    As an educationist, I am appalled by the Single National Curriculum. As a Pakistani, I am disappointed but not surprised.I have articulated my...

  • What’s wrong with the SNC?

    The writer is a former dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS.Before I list my problems with the Single National Curriculum ,...

  • Education: a proposal

    Frankly, the Single New Curriculum is so absurd that one would have to be a masochist to wade through its details. Trust our governments to come up...

  • Need for evidence

    Official figures suggest that the pandemic has abated in Pakistan. This is welcome news but we need to be sure. It would be unfortunate either if...

  • The SNC needs to be reconsidered

    At its most basic, education has two dimensions – what is taught and how it is taught. Everyone would agree that the most excellent content can be...

  • The downward spiral

    The mandate of the Higher Education Commission should now be to save higher education in Pakistan but quite aside from the fact that past actions...

  • Epidemics within epidemics

    The coronavirus pandemic is bad enough but, as dozens of countries have demonstrated, it can be controlled – there were just three new cases in...