The representational image shows girls attending a class at a school in Lahore. — AFP/FileIn 2006, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in...
The representational image shows girls attending a class at a school in Lahore. — AFP/FileIn 2006, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies...
Building of the Higher Education Commission in Islamabad. — HEC/FileWe gather today in memory of a once-vibrant force that lifted thousands from...
Building of the Higher Education Commission in Islamabad. — HEC/FileWe gather today in memory of a once-vibrant force that lifted thousands from...
The representational image displays a graduation cap with a yellow tassel, placed on top of an open book and a rolled-up diploma tied with a red...
The representational image displays a graduation cap with a yellow tassel, placed on top of an open book and a rolled-up diploma tied with a red...
A representational image showing the silhouette of students wearing graduation caps. — Reuters/FileEvery year, around the start of the summer...
A representational image showing the silhouette of students wearing graduation caps. — Reuters/FileEvery year, around the start of the summer...
Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. — Facebook/Quaid-i-Azam University,Islamabad/FileOver the last many years, campus protests and closings...
Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. — Facebook/Quaid-i-Azam University,Islamabad/FileOver the last many years, campus protests and closings...
The Higher Education Commission's office in Islamabad. — HEC website/FileIt is the height of the summer and monsoon season, and it has been very...
The Higher Education Commission's office in Islamabad. — HEC website/FileIt is the height of the summer and monsoon season, and it has been very...
Representational image of a graduate student.—AFP/File‘Tis graduation season around the world, the time new graduates are handed blank...
Representational image of a graduate student.—AFP/File‘Tis graduation season around the world, the time new graduates are handed blank...
Representational image of a graduate student.—AFP/File‘Tis graduation season around the world, the time new graduates are handed blank...
This year serves as a poignant reminder of evolving landscape that new graduates must navigate
Trump can get away with attacking universities way he has because Americans' support for colleges is slipping
Contribution of federal budget to higher education for last seven years has stood frozen at around Rs65 billion
Actions of ICE are sweeping and have targeted not only int'l students holding visas but also green card holders
Reports suggest that entire GBP190 million is to be spent on this single project
Shift in university priorities to simple publication metrics developed a culture of junk publications
Few university leaders are dynamic enough to develop plan to generate additional revenue for their institutions
Automation enables mass production of goods to achieve greater efficiencies and allows pricing them within purchasing power of more consumers
Distancing madrassas from the education sector could jeopardise this path for millions of madrassa students
For last eight years, HEC's budget has been virtually stagnant in absolute terms
Statista Market Insights put Pakistan’s total book sales at a paltry $60 million
Students, progressive groups – let’s call them the ‘Toothless’ – are usually at receiving end
If they had, his reasoning went, someone would have seen them by now
In one university , the statutory positions of controller, registrar, and treasurer have not been filled since November 2022
If mass of material is below this threshold , reaction will not be self-sustaining and fizzle out
Six universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are operating without any VC at all
Public schools are inexpensive in relative, and arguably absolute, terms
A representational image showing the building of Bacha Khan Medical College in Mardan. — BKMC/Facebook/FileImagine this: A bully enters a man’s...
Decision was disseminated via letter to VCs, rectors, and heads of all higher education institutions in Pakistan
We have known for decades that there is a need to broaden the base of taxpayers in the country
For as long as I can remember, among engineering disciplines, electrical engineering has been the top choice
2024 Global Skills Report report places Pakistan at 84 out of larger cohort of 109 countries in global skills proficiency rankings
SIFC announced that federal government would now require provinces to match federal contributions to higher education
April saw the release of Meta’s Llama 3 generative large language model, notable for being open-source
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority headquarters can be seen in this picture released on November 4, 2021. — Facebook/NEPRAWould you...
Today, a total of 11,000 children are attending Daanish schools in Punjab
Metropabad was a sought-after place to live, which is why NUT – a public university – was fortunate to attract some of the most qualified...
Since 2017, the number of public universities has grown by 53 per cent
Learning achievement in Urdu, Sindhi, and Math at 5th grade level in most provinces and districts has gone down in the 2023 survey
I hope and pray that AI revolution does not become latest one in which we are relegated to end users of other people’s labour
I reviewed manifestos of three major parties – PML-N, PPP, and PTI – that have held power at some points in past
Escalating situation by responding with physical violence and inviting violence in turn
I put down some of my thoughts on issue last year in an op-ed in these pages Are Pakistanis really leaving September 8, 2023
How, you may wonder, are changes in household spending in the US relevant to us here in Pakistan?
Sayre’s law, named for Columbia University political scientist Wallace Stanley Sayre, states that “The politics of the university are so intense...
