Turning professional degrees into social trophies
When Khadija Mastur Chaudhry scanned matrimonial ‘rishtas’ for her businessman son, she had a very ...
Who’s experimenting with education and why?
When the 18th Amendment to Pakistan’s Constitution was passed in 2010, one of its boldest ...
Invisible research, invisible impact
When Fahimullah, a young MPhil student at the Faculty of Arts, University of the Punjab, ...
AI’s hidden cost in higher education
When the teacher entered the class and asked a routine question about business models, half ...
Hidden cost of floods on literacy in Pakistan
When the floodwaters rose around her village in southern Punjab this summer, fourteen-year-old Ayesha thought ...
Pakistan’s literacy battle beyond numbers
Even after decades of policy pledges and billions in spending, Pakistan’s literacy rate inches forward, ...
Pakistan’s vanishing classrooms in floodwaters
When the monsoon finally loosened its grip, the children of Baiji Katcha returned along a ...
Learning lost in the dust of rural Sindh
Sindh, the province already struggling with one of the lowest literacy rates in Pakistan, particularly ...
Cholistan’s children chasing learning across dunes
As dawn spills gold across the shifting dunes of Cholistan — locally known as Rohi ...
School for sale: Free education vanishing in Punjab
In a province where more than 10 million children are out of school, the Punjab ...