Articles with tag: students
Student Politics in Pakistan: A Profile
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 28, 2008 interacts: 130Student politics in Pakistan has had a history of mixed fortunes and shades. Though extremely tumultuous, it is also a history of rich democratic traditions.
Monday Morning Blast in Rawalpindi ... An eyewitness account
Sabahat Vahidy Feb 4, 2008 interacts: 328This morning marked the first day of classes for the current batch of officers chosen from around the country to take the Unit Command Course. Five of them never signed-in today.
Muffled Voices on Campuses
Ahsan Raza Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 2As private universities are abuzz with anti-emergency chants, students of Government College and FC College, Lahore have also adopted ways to express themselves politically.
Go Jamiat Go
Raza Hamdani Nov 20, 2007 interacts: 16The students have announced loud and clear that they no longer want the Jamiat over their head.
Foreign Factor in our Higher Education
Muhammad FarooqiAzam Nov 18, 2007 interacts: 10Our whole system of education is working in such a way to produce good high-tech workforce for European and American markets. Irony is we do this at our own expense.
Imran Khan at LUMS
Ammar Rashid Nov 4, 2007 interacts: 145Amidst speculation of the imposition of emergency in the country by the state, Imran was here to speak about the role of the youth in the country’s political future.
Ragging: A Sickness in our Educational System and Society
Rohit Chopra Oct 8, 2007 interacts: 2Several incidents of ragging have been reported at Indian colleges, some involving acts of brutal violence perpetrated on helpless first year students by groups of senior students.
A Nation Reborn
Shaheryar Akbar Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 71Just when I thought my people would once again silently ignore this new form of oppression, and resign themselves to a fate written by politicians and generals, they responded! They awoke! They said in one voice, “enough is enough!” I have ne
Education: An Abysmal Situation
Yahya Noori May 25, 2005 interacts: 25The sons and daughters of the most privileged class study in Cambridge system, the less privileged ones, in private schools and appear under metric system of examination; the poor, in so called “yellow schools” with ghost teachers.
The SAT Scam
Maliha Aqueel May 19, 2005 interacts: 13Cheating is going on in the SAT.. and everyone seems blind to it.
The Responsibility of Students
Nima Shirali Sep 16, 2004 interacts: 15I started my university studies with the expectation of elevating my level of academic understanding. I was of the notion that I would be entering a “sanctuary for free thought”. Yet, the notion of this “sanctuary” was violently br
Teachers and the Impact they have on Students
Hafsa Ahsan Sep 9, 2004 interacts: 8Each student will not have the same potential. Each will be challenged in some way. It is up to me, as a teacher, to find the 'key' that unlocks each child’s ability to maximize his full potential and inspires him to learn.
What’s the Taj Mahal like from the inside? And Other Stories
Rohit De Jul 18, 2004 interacts: 67Despite coming all the way from Bangalore to Lahore to debate, all six of us at the hall that morning were nervous at the thought of being cross examined by 40 schoolgirls
The Summer of 2001…
Aman Malik Jun 24, 2004 interacts: 8“If any of you cannot bear being ragged,” he said, “you might go to Hindu College (across the road from Stephen’s); if you are unable to face that even, then my boys you may take admission in Miranda House (the only college that al
Problems with Co-Education
Hafsa Ahsan Jun 5, 2004 interacts: 32Many feminist movements have started an active campaign to get single-sex schools established in large numbers.
