LAHORE: The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) achieved another milestone by establishing ‘School of Education’ following the approval by its Board of Trustees. The School of Education joins as the fifth school at LUMS after the already established schools of business, humanities and social sciences, science and engineering, and law. The exploratory phase for the School of Education was initiated in October 2015, with funding from the Babar Ali Foundation, and the objective of enabling LUMS to intervene as a thought leader and change maker in a rapidly expanding educational milieu of Pakistan. The Planning Committee of the project included LUMS Pro-Chancellor Syed Babar Ali, LUMS Management Committee member Osman Khalid Waheed, and LUMS Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Sohail Naqvi, with Dr Tahir Andrabi, Professor of Economics at Pomona College as executive director, Dr Mariam Chughtai from the Harvard University as associate director of the project. Dr Asim Ijaz Khwaja, professor of International Finance and Development at Harvard Kennedy School, and Dr Faisal Bari, associate professor of Economics at LUMS were advisers to the team. Over the course of the project phase, the team established local, regional and international linkages through events such as the inaugural of an education roundtable at the LUMS in March 2016, convening academics, practitioners and policy experts with the aim of understanding disparate perspectives on education reforms in Pakistan. Similarly, in May 2016, an education roundtable at Harvard University seeded partnerships for the project internationally with top universities and education faculty from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Northwestern, amongst others. Faculty from these universities will comprise the advisory board for the newly established school. Three kinds of programmes will be offered under the school, including masters in education policy, leadership and management. According to a university’s statement, the School of Education will operate at the crucial nexus of research, policy and practice, supporting a faculty that is internationally competitive, connected, and relevant. “The curriculum, featuring extensive field engagement, will produce graduates capable of becoming strategic leaders, policy researchers and reflective practitioners.