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Dr Ayesha RazzaqueThe News International |
Would you rather have someone pick your pocket with their left or their right hand? Would you prefer to get robbed facing the business end of a small...
The thickness of a sheet of high-quality 250-300 grams per square meter matte printing paper is approximately one-third of a millimeter. If you fold...
There once was a national university, let’s call it the National University of Technology (NUT) located in Metropabad, a major city of a developing...
When one is looking for higher-ed statistics in Pakistan, they must be pieced together from multiple sources and cross-checked to ensure they make...
There was a time when systematically collected data about schoolchildren’s learning levels was scarce, spottily collected, and hard to obtain....
While Pakistan was still counting votes and figuring out who won these elections, Dubai was hosting the three-day World Governments Summit 2024 from...
While Pakistan was still counting votes and figuring out who won these elections, Dubai was hosting the three-day World Governments Summit 2024 from...
The election manifestos of all major parties have now been released. I went through them with an eye on education priorities. If education is an...
A few weeks ago, I was invited to a panel on the issue of harassment on university campuses. The audience comprised students, 20-something-year-old...
Emigration has occupied perhaps more than its usual share of space in the public discourse in the past year. Op-eds that popped up in the media have...
In the mid-80s, a generation ago, the average American household spent about one-third of its income on housing expenses (rent or mortgage payments),...
Sayre’s law, named for Columbia University political scientist Wallace Stanley Sayre, states that “The politics of the university are so intense...
I asked 12 year-old Sultan (pseudonym) to read from his Urdu textbook. He struggled to read a simple sentence (“more sher ki tarha jungle kaa...
A few months ago, these pages carried an op-ed of mine that attempted to provide some insights into university admissions processes (‘The admissions...
Since Israel began its genocidal campaign against Palestinians, observers and commentators the world over have been watching the unprecedented...
When you become aware of a problem, you can take one of two approaches: you can either take on the problem head-on or you can paper over it. In...
Around the world, universities have multiple goals. Core among them remains teaching in degree programmes to pass on knowledge, make (mostly) young...
Fall, the time when millions of students all over the world – including Pakistan – will start their college journeys, is upon us. Many will be...
A few weeks ago, the caretaker prime minister’s soundbite about (highly) educated Pakistanis who choose to settle abroad attracted public ire. ...