Innovate to educate

Mar19
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Admin

When I was asked by the government of Punjab to take over as chairman of a restructured Punjab Education Foundation in 2005, with the country’s education system in such dire straits, it was hard to conceive of how a foundation like PEF could make a contribution.

Today nearly 850,000 children are going to schools financed and overseen by PEF. That is more than the entire enrolment of the primary and lower-secondary system of the small country of Switzerland. PEF’s costs are remarkably low: only Rs350 per student.

There are two concurrent challenges that policymakers face in trying to solve the education riddle.

The first is simply that the demand for education is high. The incontrovertible evidence of this demand is in the growth of private-sector schools in Pakistan. In some areas private schools are inexpensive, where average monthly fees, back then, were as low as Rs100. The dramatic rise in low-cost private schools is a massive indictment by Pakistani parents of the public-sector system for delivery of schooling. READ MORE »

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MS/MPhil/PhD Admissions for 2011 at University of Karachi

Mar19
2011 6 Comments Written by Admin

Admissions are open to following disciplines at University of Karachi institutes and faculties:

Faculty of Arts

  • Arabic, Economics, Education, English (Literature), General History, International Relations, I.R. (Peace and Conflict Studies), Islamic History, Mass Communication, Persian, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sindhi, Sociology, Social Work, Special Education and Urdu READ MORE »
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Plagiarism charges against VC being probed

Mar19
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Admin

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is looking into allegations of plagiarism levelled against the Vice-Chancellor of University of Peshawar, Dr Azmat Hayat Khan.

Dr Khan, a former director of the Area Study Centre here, has been accused by a teacher of the university`s law college, Mohammad Zubair, of including in his book — titled “The Durand Line: Its Geo Strategic Importance” and published in 2000 by Area Study Centre, University of Peshawar, and Hans Seidel Foundation — some passages from the book “Pak-Afghanistan Relations” written by Dr Kulwant Kaur of Jammu University, Jammu, and published by Deep and Deep Publications in 1985. Copies of both the books are available with .

According to Mr Zubair, substantial portions of the introduction in Dr Khan`s book are quite similar to some paragraphs of the extract of a book titled “Sir Mortimer Durand”, authored by Brig-Gen Sir P. Sykes and published in 1926 by Cassell and Company Limited, London. Mr Zubair has submitted a formal complaint over the issue to the HEC. READ MORE »

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Can going to college help us figure out who we are — and where we are going?

Mar17
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Zulfiqar Ali

Universities as engines of identity development and of social justice.

Universities provide an important context within which we can explore our identity (Kroger, 2007). We can procure cultural capital by learning about major world achievements in art, history, literature, mathematics, psychology; we learn how to think critically; we acquire skills; we interact with people highly similar to and very different from us; we develop our competencies and identify our interests.

Universities are also engines of social justice – they now allow more and more people to learn and earn a degree than ever before (e.g., some did not accept women until the late 1960s) – especially if they did not grow up in a home with economic and/or intellectual privilege.

Yet it is very worrisome that this engine of social justice is not being been fueled sufficiently in recent years, leaving many to struggle to pay ever-rising tuition bills, much less develop their identity.

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Briefing on new exam system

Mar15
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Admin

Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education on Monday directed all candidate appearing in the secondary school certificate part-I examination to attend a briefing at their examination centers one day before the start of exam.

The board authorities said all candidates would appear in their examination centers on March 20 as SSC-I papers would start on March 21 as they would be briefed on the new answer sheets and new method of attempting objective papers.

BISE Official Spokesperson Arsalan Cheema said the superintendents, deputy superintendents and resident inspectors concerned would be present at the examination centres to brief the candidates about how to use newly designed answer sheets and new method of attempting objective part of the paper. READ MORE »

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University of Karachi announces MA IR results

Mar15
2011 3 Comments Written by Admin

Examinations Department of the University of Karachi (KU) has announced on Monday the results of MA International Relations (Final) External Annual Examination 2009. Zubida Sadiq stood first with 673 marks, Ena Junejo second with 656 marks and Aamir Jalal third with 652 marks. As per statistics of the results 2,316 candidates were registered, 2,198 appeared in the examinations, out of which 738 were declared as pass. READ MORE »

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