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White coats for sale? From healers to high earners

A young doctor examines a patient, listens to the symptoms, recommends investigations and writes a ...
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Sindh schools without basics, children without futures

The school bell may ring across Sindh, but for millions of children, the journey to ...
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Degrees without discovery: Pakistan’s universities in crisis

A university is supposed to be a place where questions challenge established beliefs, discoveries transform ...
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Bridging the gap between labs and markets

On paper, Pakistan has built much of the machinery needed to turn university research into ...
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Balochistan: A generation caught between fear and hope

For a child in Balochistan, the distance between home and school can sometimes be measured ...
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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 ...