Shahid Siddiqui

Shahid Siddiqui

  • Karachi braces for water shortfall after Dhabeji power breakdown

    Karachi braces for water shortfall after Dhabeji power breakdown

    Power breakdown disrupts operations in second phase, affecting major water supply line: KWSC

  • Speeding buses overturn, killing nine in Thatta, Khairpur

    Speeding buses overturn, killing nine in Thatta, Khairpur

    Six picnickers en route to Keenjhar Lake perish in Thatta; three others die in accident near Tando Masti area

  • New PhD policy

    The history of educational policies in Pakistan is replete with non-consultative abrupt decisions which disrupted the ongoing policies and put...

  • Paradigms of education

    The major educational challenge of the 21st century is the acquisition of new sets of skills required by students and teachers alike. These skills...

  • Ensuring translation

    Education and development have a potent correlation. It is said that the difference between progressive and developed countries is actually the...

  • The challenge of implementation

    There has been a growing realization in the developing and developed countries about the pivotal role of teachers in improving the quality of...

  • The curriculum recipe

    One of the major impediments to educational change in Pakistan is the oversimplification of notions, ideas and solutions. Certain stereotypes have...

  • For the teacher

    “Without narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not...

  • Education and social justice

    In the 9/11 commission report it was recommended that Pakistan should be given more financial support in order to improve its education sector....

  • Teachers as intellectuals

    “There have been no major revolutions in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement...

  • The pedagogy of conformity

    A major objective of education, which most schools of thought subscribe to, is the broadening of mental horizons, personal and societal development...

  • Education: the challenge of quality

    The problem of access had always been a serious challenge for the educational system of Pakistan, where even historically at the primary level...

  • What constitutes power?

    “…power is everywhere not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.” – Michel FoucaultPower, being a complex...

  • Language matters

    Language plays an important role in the sociopolitical and education systems of a country. It acts as an important identity marker at the individual...

  • Schools, not machines

    Gareth Morgan, a professor of organisational behaviour and industrial relations at York University in Toronto, is the author of a popular book...

  • When a language dies

    Language and society constantly influence each other. Social factors, such as age, gender, class and religion, influence language; conversely,...

  • The corporatisation of education

    A major objective of education, which most schools of thought subscribe to, is to broaden mental horizons, ensure personal and societal development,...

  • When language divides us

    One of the most serious challenges faced by the education system in Pakistan is the education apartheid. Language plays a major role in the divide...

  • Why education reforms fail

    Education is considered to be an important condition for development. The gaps between developed and developing countries are attributed to the gaps...

  • Out of school, out of mind

    Education plays an important role in shaping our society. In the age of the knowledge economy, this role has become all the more important....