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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
As an academic, I welcome the defence of the Single National Curriculum offered by Zulfiqar Ali Shaikh from the Ministry of Education. It provides...
Everyone interested in education knows Macaulay and his ‘Minute on Education’, the basis of the English Education Act of 1835, that determined...
Almost every account of colonialism describes how the colonists planned to use education as a means of stabilizing and strengthening their rule....
The Single National Curriculum has some very laudable objectives including raising good human beings and promoting inclusiveness and tolerance. It...
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:...
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 Covid-19 pandemic has hit education hard. Schools and colleges have been closed since March which has resulted in a lot of handwringing, with...
As an educationist, I am appalled by the Single National Curriculum. As a Pakistani, I am disappointed but not surprised.I have articulated my...
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 ,...
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...
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...
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 mandate of the Higher Education Commission should now be to save higher education in Pakistan but quite aside from the fact that past actions...
The coronavirus pandemic is bad enough but, as dozens of countries have demonstrated, it can be controlled – there were just three new cases in...
The relatively low number of Covid-19 deaths reported in South Asia continue to puzzle analysts. While the low numbers might be true for reasons yet...
Every single person is at risk – even Prince Charles and Boris Johnson have tested positive – which makes this a crisis unprecedented in living...
For weeks we have not seen the sun in Lahore. There is light without sunshine, diffused as through a dull haze. And we are trudging along as if this...
Education is a big-ticket item. Clarity is needed about its relationship with economic growth and development before betting the house on it....
It is a fact that few outside Pakistan consider the most recent electoral exercise to have been even-handed. Even partisans benefiting from the...
The last shred of doubt regarding the reality of climate change should have been removed by the unnaturally early arrival of the silly season. One...
Has there been a fruitful line of inquiry regarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor ? This largely depends on the questions with which one...
I had proposed a civil society initiative to constitute a People’s Planning Commission as a possible check on wasteful expenditures of public...
The Taj Mahal was the nub of the argument in a recent opinion piece by Dr Nadeem ul Haque on the Planning Commission: ‘Should we have a...
One can agree with most things Pervez Hoodbhoy says on language and yet be left with the impression that he has painted with so broad a brush as to...
