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Organisational culture matters

Organisational culture matters

Constructive work cultures do not happen by default. They have to be designed.

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Festivals and conferences

Each festival had some 40 to 50 sessions and 200-plus panellists or speakers.

27.02.2026 40

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Humour in classrooms

Students do identify a ‘sense of humour’ as one of the traits that good teachers possess.

13.02.2026 150

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Deeper effort needed

There is no reason why learning should not be an enjoyable and fruitful experience.

30.01.2026 60

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Difficult times

We need to start thinking about how we can create more income-generation opportunities.

16.01.2026 100

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Words without actions

Children are shaped by what they see their parents, family elders and teachers do.

02.01.2026 150

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Building research capacity

Recruiting, motivating, and keeping good teachers efficiently employed is not easy.

19.12.2025 70

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Duty to care

Most children with disabilities remain unseen, unacknowledged and underserved.

05.12.2025 50

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An economy on the move

Cambodia has focused a lot of resources on rebuilding schools.

21.11.2025 100

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Taking back education

The curriculum has always been a thorn in the side of successive federal governments.

07.11.2025 90

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Teaching as profession

Most private sector teachers do not make the minimum wage level and the government seems to be happy with it.

24.10.2025 100

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Beyond curriculum

If parents and teachers are willing to rig competitions, it’s not about learning anymore.

10.10.2025 100

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Undergraduate education quality

Confidence based on knowledge and skills is a crucial outcome of a good undergraduate education.

26.09.2025 100

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School closures

We should talk about decentralising school closure beyond regular holidays to the district level.

12.09.2025 90

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Counselling needs

Very few schools have academic counsellors and academic counselling offices.

29.08.2025 80

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Chickens coming home...

Higher education funding has either remained static or decreased.

15.08.2025 80

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Community and governance

Underlying issues need to be addressed and we have to learn how to disagree with each other and manage this disagreement.

01.08.2025 100

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Developing effective capacity

It won’t be surprising if departments related to education are targeted for rightsizing or closure.

18.07.2025 80

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No education

It is clear that governments — federal and provincial — do not want to spend more on education.

04.07.2025 150

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Neoliberal anti-poor hubris

The elites say the economy is on the mend; they do not see the rise in poverty numbers.

20.06.2025 80

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Examination leaks

If a paper is leaked, why does it become an occasion for settling scores with exam bodies?

06.06.2025 50

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Summer fun

This is such a wonderful opportunity for children to do things at a leisurely pace.

23.05.2025 80

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Education and emergencies

Emergencies in Pakistan are becoming more frequent and raising uncertainties for everyone.

09.05.2025 150

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Undergraduate focus

We need to see a lot more young people getting an undergraduate education of solid quality in Pakistan.

25.04.2025 100

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TVET market is tough

Skills do not have a good reputation.

11.04.2025 100

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Labour market issues

We have so many young people in Pakistan. But most of them are uneducated and unskilled.

28.03.2025 70

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‘Book Street’?

Attendance at literature festivals, sales at book fairs indicate there is demand for such spaces, a yearning among the young to engage.

14.03.2025 40

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‘I, expert’

Experts seldom have an incentive to put in the hard work needed for deeper research.

28.02.2025 70

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Evidence for policies

The World Bank puts the learning poverty figure for Pakistan at around 77pc.

14.02.2025 100

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NON-FICTION: THE MELANCHOLIC CITY

A historian looks at Lahore as a case-study to see how his hometown has systematically lost its connection to its many-splendoured

02.02.2025 20

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Dilemma of spin wickets

Pakistan’s cricket future is compromised when the focus remains on short-term success.

31.01.2025 30

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Dilemma of spin wickets

While preparing spin-friendly wickets has its place in certain contexts, it should not be the default approach.

31.01.2025 20

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Against children

It is clear that we are doing our best not to invest in the children of today.

17.01.2025 90

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Learning from a child

MY daughter, who is seven and a half, is my latest teacher. She is in grade two. She gets a fair bit of homework and she is kind enough that she...

03.01.2025 10

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Youth mental health

IT was a couple of years before Covid-19 that I started realising that something was changing quite fundamentally on the mental health front for...

20.12.2024 10

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