The Ubiquitousness of Private Academies/Coaching Centres
- 11-Jan-2025
In a country, wherein the reliance upon educating the students has significantly been shouldered by the private educational institutions: be those schools, colleges, universities, and vocational institutes on the grounds of the sub-standard instructional quality rendered by the government educative establishments, the urge to make the students even attend private academies and coaching centres administered […]
Seniority versus Educative Contribution
- 03-Jun-2024
A state wherein the benchmark of seniority as a teacher is that of the years of service, as opposed to any meaningful educational contribution made towards the betterment of tutees is the one, which has been tearing itself apart. It is that very Pakistan wherein a plethora of teachers spell a ‘primary school’ as a […]
The Mickey Mouse Degrees
- 11-Nov-2023
Just the pursuance of an Associate, a Bachelor’s, a Master’s, an MPhil, an MS, or a Doctoral degree is not sufficient. The credential must justify the effort, the time, and the money spent upon its attainment. It is a thousand pities that the Pakistani students have been stuck in a wild goose chase since time […]
The Linguistic Intelligence
- 11-Jun-2023
It has been observed that those individuals who consider English to be merely a language, as opposed to it being a qualification, are the ones, who themselves, have failed in speaking and jotting it down in a grammatically appropriate manner in the first place. Diving deep into the subject matter has a lot to offer […]
The Pedagogic Dead End
- 03-Nov-2022
Ours is the Republic, wherein what the masses pursue as their fields of study, and what they practise as vocations for the acquisition of upward mobility and livelihoods are diametrically opposed. This boils down to one chief issue, which is that of ‘the privation of career counselling’; never in their wildest dreams have the learners […]
Opinion: Failed by the hyper-literate class
- 11-Oct-2022
It is rightly said that a generation without instruction is headed towards destruction. But what if those who are tasked with instruction designedly proceed towards the concealment of knowledge? What seems to be utterly bizarre has been quite a practice in the Republic. The first hand experience of it can particularly be garnered by attending […]
English Language as a Separate Subject
- 26-Aug-2022
Being a lingua franca and one of the most spoken languages in the world, English possesses the potential so as to make the learners make the world their oyster; however, its very lack of inclusion in the curricula as a separate branch of knowledge, apart from the compulsory English, which has poesy, prose, and dramas […]
Teachers Everywhere; Knowledge Nowhere
- 10-Aug-2022
Of late, a sizeable workforce has been becoming a part of teaching as a profession, which is known as the ‘Occupation of the Prophets’. On paper, it seems to be indicative of a progression; however, not each individual who has joined it is worthy of being called an ‘educator’. It is a thousand pities that […]
Opinion: Guided Missiles and Misguided Students
- 03-Aug-2022
Without a goal, one cannot score. The same is applicable in the academic career of a ward; in order to attain the sustained success, a learner is expected to follow a particular trajectory. However, the lack of career counselling in our educative policies has been having the very careers of our students compromised; the other […]
Opinion: The Necessity of English
- 19-Jul-2022
In this era of ever-changing and competitive world, one cannot gainsay the importance of the linguistic skills for the individuals in the process of making them march ahead in their respective career paths. It is a melancholic occurrence that the educational sector of our endeared Republic has perpetually been underfunded by the government since the […]