Tag: Anjum Altaf articles
Fair and fluent – Anjum Altaf
Neelam Hanif has mounted a passionate defence of English as the medium of instruction (‘SNC and the language question’, The News, September 12,...
No minister, yes minister- Anjum Altaf
The minister for education has written an opinion defending the Single National Curriculum (‘Debating the SNC’, The News, September 8, 2020). It fails in...
Upside-down world – Anjum Altaf
TO figure out how we have to come to consider an upside-down world as right-side up, you could do no better than become a...
The pandemic as a learning opportunity – Anjum Altaf
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit education hard. Schools and colleges have been closed since March which has resulted in a lot of handwringing, with...
What’s wrong with the SNC? – Anjum Altaf
The writer is a former dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS.
Before I list my problems with the Single National...
Strange economics Anjum Altaf
ECONOMICS is strange, full of odd things that are rarely challenged. It is a bit like religion that one is supposed to accept without...
Education: a proposal- Anjum Altaf
Frankly, the Single New Curriculum is so absurd that one would have to be a masochist to wade through its details. Trust our...
Need for evidence – Anjum Altaf
Official figures suggest that the pandemic has abated in Pakistan. This is welcome news but we need to be sure. It would be unfortunate...
The SNC needs to be reconsidered – Anjum Altaf
At its most basic, education has two dimensions – what is taught and how it is taught. Everyone would agree that the most excellent...
Living wage – Anjum Altaf
NOW that we have discovered all the ‘essential’ workers who were invisible to us, or to whom we had closed our eyes, what are...