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Entrance test dilemma: Gatekeeper or wrong turn?

For thousands of Pakistani students, the race for admission to a professional or prestigious university ...
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Why Pakistan is losing the social sciences race!

On a humid afternoon outside a university admissions office in Lahore, a young student clutched ...
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The vanishing allure of civil service

Once the ultimate symbol of prestige and power, the civil service is losing its appeal ...
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Why Pakistan’s education emergency is failing 25m children

More than two years after Pakistan declared a National Education Emergency, the country’s biggest classroom ...
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Slow death of social science research in Pakistan

On a humid afternoon at a public university in Islamabad, a young sociology student sat ...
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Education: Four provinces, one persistent failure

On a dusty roadside in southern Punjab, a boy no older than ten balances a ...
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Producing doctors, losing standards: A system under strain

On a warm afternoon in Lahore, a final-year medical student sits outside her college’s skills ...
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Free education: Article 25-A on trial in Punjab

In the constitutional architecture of Pakistan, few provisions carry the moral and legal weight of ...
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The curriculum conundrum

In a modest classroom somewhere in Pakistan, a science teacher stands before a blackboard, carefully ...
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The skill gap: Pakistan’s forgotten workforce

On a quiet morning in the suburbs of Rahim Yar Khan city of Punjab, Rashid ...