Digital divide and inequalities in access to higher education on August 9, 2020With the growing evidence that we must live with COVID-19 for a foreseeable future, the universities of Pakistan are increasingly shifting to online teaching. Easier said than done; insufficient digital infrastructure, lack of training among faculty and students to use online technologies and costly subscription to the required software are but few of the challenges […]
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches on March 19, 2017Education crisis in developing countries cannot be fixed until the children of the elite are made to enroll in the same schools where ordinary citizens are educated. Today, Pakistan is the largest recipient of the UK’s aid with most of the money spent on reforms in education sector. However, this amount of nearly $150 million […]