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Dr Ayesha Razzaque
Dr Ayesha Razzaque

  • May 27, 2023

    The admissions game

    International applicants to post-graduate programmes at universities in developed countries have long understood that having even a single...

  • May 20, 2023

    At the bottom of the totem pole

    The visuals coming out of Pakistan over the last week were jarring and alarming. Uncertainty is reigning. In the face of the tyranny of the urgent,...

  • May 01, 2023

    The AI debate in education

    Large Language Models , the guts of chatbots like ChatGPT, are having their moment right now. The rise of chatbots has brought forth numerous...

  • April 13, 2023

    The workplace of today

    Every Pakistani aspires to the fruits of progress although many insist on continuing to live in the 16th century. Our state is too preoccupied with...

  • March 29, 2023

    The case for student unions

    The Google /Oxford Languages dictionary definition of the adjective ‘liberal’ is: “willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different...

  • March 08, 2023

    The importance of playtime

    One of the most famous legends in Greek mythology is that of the escape of Daedalus, a gifted architect and craftsman, and his son Icarus from the...

  • February 20, 2023

    Failure of imagination

    On the evening of January 27, 1967 the Apollo 1 crew was performing a test rehearsal on the pad at Launch Complex 34 when a spark from a power surge...

  • February 08, 2023

    The privilege of ‘staying back’

    Human migration has been happening since the dawn of time — in search of game, in search of fertile land. If it had not been for migration, the...

  • January 30, 2023

    ChatGPT: the future is already here

    The year 2001 saw the release of Steven Spielberg’s film ‘A.I. - Artificial Intelligence’. It was accompanied by a website featuring a...

  • January 12, 2023

    A beginner’s guide to adulting

    A 2020 report by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics , titled ‘State of graduate unemployment in Pakistan’, put the unemployment...