Public Sector Education
Monday, August 3, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan, Monday, 03 Aug, 2009
EDUCATION has undergone a tremendous change over the last two decades. It has emerged as a plausible business venture and has thus caught the eye of the private sector.
A related aspect of contemporary education is corporatisation. The business paradigm has a different viewpoint of education in terms of its role, objectives and dynamics.
The relationship between education and society should be ideally mutual so that on the one hand, the needs of society should be catered to by education and on the other hand, education should perform the role of making society a place where freedom of thought and expression can be exercised.
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EDUCATION has undergone a tremendous change over the last two decades. It has emerged as a plausible business venture and has thus caught the eye of the private sector.
A related aspect of contemporary education is corporatisation. The business paradigm has a different viewpoint of education in terms of its role, objectives and dynamics.
The relationship between education and society should be ideally mutual so that on the one hand, the needs of society should be catered to by education and on the other hand, education should perform the role of making society a place where freedom of thought and expression can be exercised.
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Labels: Education, Government
posted @ 9:15 AM,
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Libraries and Governance
Monday, July 27, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan, Monday, July 27, 2009
When I go to my rich friends’ houses, I see no books. A million-dollar household with a hundred thousand-dollar sports car outside has no books. Rich people who spend thousands of dollars on a dinner do not even spend a hundred dollars annually on books.
We have five polo grounds and three golf courses in Lahore; and one library in disrepair left to us by the colonial masters, and a ‘sort of’ bureaucratic library that we built in our sixty years. Says a lot about us, does it not?
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When I go to my rich friends’ houses, I see no books. A million-dollar household with a hundred thousand-dollar sports car outside has no books. Rich people who spend thousands of dollars on a dinner do not even spend a hundred dollars annually on books.
We have five polo grounds and three golf courses in Lahore; and one library in disrepair left to us by the colonial masters, and a ‘sort of’ bureaucratic library that we built in our sixty years. Says a lot about us, does it not?
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Labels: Book Reading, Education, Governance, Leadership
posted @ 1:44 PM,
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Democracy's inclusion in curriculum
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan,Thursday, 23 Jul, 2009
SINDH education minister Pir Mazharul Haq’s idea that courses on the benefits of democracy should be incorporated in the curriculum of schools is not unprecedented.
This idea has been occupying the minds of both educationists and politicians for many decades and the totalitarian regimes that we have had to face have caused the issue to be brought to the forefront.
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SINDH education minister Pir Mazharul Haq’s idea that courses on the benefits of democracy should be incorporated in the curriculum of schools is not unprecedented.
This idea has been occupying the minds of both educationists and politicians for many decades and the totalitarian regimes that we have had to face have caused the issue to be brought to the forefront.
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posted @ 1:32 PM,
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Budgeting education priorities
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan, Saturday, June 27, 2009
analysis: Abbas Rashid
The National Education Policy review process was initiated in January 2006 and it is now June 2009, which means that four budgets have been approved during this period but the process has yet to conclude with the announcement of the new education policy
The federal and provincial budgets for 2009-2010 have been presented and we are nowhere close to spending that minimum of 4 percent of GDP on education, recommended by UNESCO all those years ago. Actually, given the state of our education system, we would probably need to spend a whole lot more than that. The federal education budget for 2009-10 at Rs 56 billion, with a large chunk going to the Higher Education Commission (HEC), shows a 36 percent increase over the revised estimates of Rs 41 billion for 2008-09.
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Labels: Education, Education Policy, Education Reforms, Education System
posted @ 9:45 AM,
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Seizing the future
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan
By Nafisa Rizvi
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009
To date this mountain climber, with no personal resource other than his dogged determination and gritty persistence, has built more than 70 schools, mainly for girls across the North-West Frontier Province and northern Punjab in places such as Skardu, Shegar, Hushe, Hunza, Braidu and the Neelam Valley. Along his journey Mortenson encountered fatwas and death threats and even a kidnapping from which he narrowly escaped.
To many in Pakistan it is just another read, a do-good story of heroism and high achievement. What it should have done was evoke a questioning angst tearing at the heart of the ennui-ridden, blasé members of civil society. The question that should have cropped up is this: if an American can choose to give up three square meals, a warm bed, and long stretches of time with his wife and children to traipse many miles across a hostile country with an unwelcome terrain and share the food and housing of people living in the most meagre conditions of bare survival, all for the sake of setting up a school that will benefit our girls and our future, why are we lounging around impotently watching our children’s future being seized from us?
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By Nafisa Rizvi
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009
To date this mountain climber, with no personal resource other than his dogged determination and gritty persistence, has built more than 70 schools, mainly for girls across the North-West Frontier Province and northern Punjab in places such as Skardu, Shegar, Hushe, Hunza, Braidu and the Neelam Valley. Along his journey Mortenson encountered fatwas and death threats and even a kidnapping from which he narrowly escaped.
To many in Pakistan it is just another read, a do-good story of heroism and high achievement. What it should have done was evoke a questioning angst tearing at the heart of the ennui-ridden, blasé members of civil society. The question that should have cropped up is this: if an American can choose to give up three square meals, a warm bed, and long stretches of time with his wife and children to traipse many miles across a hostile country with an unwelcome terrain and share the food and housing of people living in the most meagre conditions of bare survival, all for the sake of setting up a school that will benefit our girls and our future, why are we lounging around impotently watching our children’s future being seized from us?
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Labels: Education, Philanthropy
posted @ 9:26 AM,
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