Education

EducationNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 34

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 ...
EducationNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 28

Education: Four provinces, one persistent failure

On a dusty roadside in southern Punjab, a boy no older than ten balances a ...
EducationNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 26

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 ...
EducationNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 24

Free education: Article 25-A on trial in Punjab

In the constitutional architecture of Pakistan, few provisions carry the moral and legal weight of ...
EducationNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 22

The curriculum conundrum

In a modest classroom somewhere in Pakistan, a science teacher stands before a blackboard, carefully ...
EducationNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 16

Literacy lost in the ledger

Every year in the hushed corridors of Islamabad and the bustling halls of provincial secretariats, ...
EducationNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 03

Turning professional degrees into social trophies

When Khadija Mastur Chaudhry scanned matrimonial ‘rishtas’ for her businessman son, she had a very ...
EducationNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 50

Working hard, paying harder

Pakistan’s salaried class shelled out Rs130 billion in the first quarter, dwarfing the combined Rs71.1 ...
EducationFeaturedNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 49

Education: a costly neglect

In his message on World Teachers’ Day observed recently, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed his ...
EducationNational VOLUME 20 ISSUE # 45

Pakistan’s literacy battle beyond numbers

Even after decades of policy pledges and billions in spending, Pakistan’s literacy rate inches forward, ...