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Untangling the HEC’s timeline – Dr Ayesha Razzaque
All the problems of the higher education sector are being laid at the feet of the HEC management being pushed out before the...
Textbooks for whom? – Dr Ayesha Razzaque
When development of the Single National Curriculum (SNC) began with the express objective of “erasing class differences”, observers who pointed to the pitfalls of...
Half-truths, untruths and the HEC – Dr Ayesha Razzaque
The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University.
Public debates on technical issues which...
Newton in a dupatta – Dr Ayesha Razzaque
Some time back, a publisher submitted a science textbook to the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) for review and approval for use in...
Everyone’s an expert – Dr Ayesha Razzaque
The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University.
Back in the 90s, a young...
If the right got its way – Dr Ayesha Razzaque
The other day I was watching Amazon’s ‘The Man in the High Castle’, set in the 60s of an alternative past, in which...
The textbook heist – Part II – Dr Ayesha Razzaque
The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University.
The National Curriculum Council (NCC) claims...
The textbook heist – Dr Ayesha Razzaque
Part - I
The government is not only proving itself to be a poor provider of education but an even worse regulator.
At first the Single...
Getting what you pay for Dr Ayesha Razzaque
Teaching schoolchildren programming or coding skills is a worthy goal, for more than the obvious reason of giving them a taste for a...
Failure of the marketplace of ideas- Dr Ayesha Razzaque
Last week saw a mob of armed insurrectionists, numbering in the thousands, storm Capitol Hill and burst into the halls and offices of...