White coats for sale? From healers to high earners
A young doctor examines a patient, listens to the symptoms, recommends investigations and writes a ...
Sindh schools without basics, children without futures
The school bell may ring across Sindh, but for millions of children, the journey to ...
Degrees without discovery: Pakistan’s universities in crisis
A university is supposed to be a place where questions challenge established beliefs, discoveries transform ...
Bridging the gap between labs and markets
On paper, Pakistan has built much of the machinery needed to turn university research into ...
Balochistan: A generation caught between fear and hope
For a child in Balochistan, the distance between home and school can sometimes be measured ...
Entrance test dilemma: Gatekeeper or wrong turn?
For thousands of Pakistani students, the race for admission to a professional or prestigious university ...
Why Pakistan is losing the social sciences race!
On a humid afternoon outside a university admissions office in Lahore, a young student clutched ...
The vanishing allure of civil service
Once the ultimate symbol of prestige and power, the civil service is losing its appeal ...
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 ...
Slow death of social science research in Pakistan
On a humid afternoon at a public university in Islamabad, a young sociology student sat ...