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Dr Asghar ZaidiDaily Times |
Teaching has gone on in Oxford for nine centuries, and it has never confined itself to what a person knows; it has always cared what a person becomes....
Somewhere in Pakistan this week, a university scholar will be made a professor by a piece of paper. The registrar's office will issue a...
In the coming weeks, universities across Pakistan will welcome a new cohort of undergraduates, as they do every August and September. Banners will go...
Walk into any university in Pakistan today and you will find three things in abundance: degree programmes; PowerPoint slides, and student anxieties....
Pakistan's crises are often described in economic, political or institutional terms. Yet beneath these visible failures lies a deeper erosion:...
Walk into almost any university in Pakistan and you will see students producing assignments, presentations and exam scripts that look impressively...
University education is not only about delivering lectures, awarding grades and degrees or meeting regulatory requirements. At its core, it is about...
Pakistan today stands at a defining crossroads. Across politics, governance, business and civil society, ambition is abundant, talent is visible and...
In conversations about world-class universities, Pakistan often looks outward, yearning for a simple answer to a complex question: how do we build...
Over the past three to four months, our universities have been caught up in a frantic race for admissions. Billboards, television spots and social...
In the discourse on improving higher education in Pakistan, we often focus on curriculum design, faculty training or digital infrastructure. What...
We don't want special treatment. We just want equal access.' This plea framed a focus group organised by Vision Without Barriers (VWB) in Lahore,...