Books don’t ruin us, but bad books do on August 25, 2020Sixteen European countries and Israel have laws against Holocaust denial, the denial of the systematic genocidal killing of approximately six million Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Many countries also have broader laws that criminalize genocide denial. Of the countries that ban Holocaust denial, some, such as Austria, Germany, Hungary, […]
School harassment scandal – International #MeToo campaign on July 30, 2020Unfortunately, in our country only pain of elite class is addressed and resolved, this again happened when it came out from another elite class school, even without any written complaint from any victim or aggrieved party. The city had been rocked by a scandal at an elite school wherein teachers allegedly sexually harassed teenaged girls, […]
Education for 75 million out of Schools Pakistani Children! ( Part II) on July 7, 2020Since Covid-19 was discovered and has spread across the world, a large amount of data has been collected on the morbidity, mortality and infection profile of the virus. As countries around the world – including several where daily death tolls exceed Pakistan’s – reopen schools, it is instructive to examine the evidence regarding the health […]
Education for 75 million out of Schools Pakistani Children! ( Part I) on July 6, 2020An important Inter-Provincial Education Ministers’ Conference (IPEMC) has been rescheduled and now it will take place on 08 July. The conference was all set to review the reopening of the educational institutions including schools, colleges and universities across the country. As the government is mulling plans to reopen the universities with strict implementation of Standard […]
Most disappointing aspect of budget 2020 on June 28, 2020The federal government led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) presented the fiscal budget for 2020-21 in the National Assembly. Since the entire world is facing an uncertain period due to the Covid-19 pandemic, nothing extraordinary was expected from the budget. However, it was expected by many that the government would allocate a greater share of the […]
The closure of educational institutions and the world! on May 18, 2020The government extended the closure of educational institutions until July 15 and cancelled all exams following a decision made by the meeting of interprovincial education ministers and the National Coordination Committee (NCC). Around 4.5 million students appear in board exams conducted by 29 educational boards across the country every year. The Higher Education Commission and […]
Role of private schools and impugned schools ordinance! on May 10, 2020While the citizens of Punjab are looking up to the ruling elite to demonstrate their leadership skills amid the spread of Covid-19, some of them are instead showing their lack of experience in decision making and governance. The provincial education minister Murad Raas recently announced a 20 per cent cut in the fee of private […]
A case of private schools survival! on April 6, 2020The universal forces will finally uproot the fearful infection of coronavirus, but the world would feel the economic cramps in future. Due to the outbreak of coronavirus across the country, Government had closed educational activities in the country in order to contain the virus. The governments of the developed countries like US, UK, European countries […]