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Anjum Altaf
Anjum Altaf

  • May 03, 2022

    SNC: what now?

    We have another opportunity to take a hard look at the Single National...

  • December 05, 2021

    SNC: curiouser and curiouser

    I completed a page-by-page review of three model textbooks prepared for...

  • March 15, 2021

    Arabic as panacea?

    How convenient it is for people to earn brownie points at the cost of...

  • February 04, 2021

    Language and instruction

    I have to disagree with the opinion on language and the medium of...

  • November 23, 2020

    Language puzzles: Part - II

    The second half of the programme focused on the plight of native...

  • November 22, 2020

    Language puzzles - Part I

    On November 14, I participated in an event jointly organized by the Ma...

  • October 28, 2020

    Not to question why

    As an academic, I welcome the defence of the Single National Curriculum ...

  • October 16, 2020

    Knowledge and power

    Everyone interested in education knows Macaulay and his ‘Minute on...

  • October 09, 2020

    Language of instruction

    Almost every account of colonialism describes how the colonists planned...

  • October 01, 2020

    A better way to teach

    The Single National Curriculum has some very laudable objectives...

  • September 22, 2020

    Fair and fluent

    Neelam Hanif has mounted a passionate defence of English as the medium of...

  • September 15, 2020

    No minister, yes minister

    The minister for education has written an opinion defending the Single...

  • September 10, 2020

    The pandemic as a learning opportunity

    The Covid-19 pandemic has hit education hard. Schools and colleges have...

  • September 04, 2020

    Political economy of the SNC

    As an educationist, I am appalled by the Single National Curriculum. As a...

  • August 29, 2020

    What’s wrong with the SNC?

    The writer is a former dean of the School of Humanities and Social...

  • August 23, 2020

    Education: a proposal

    Frankly, the Single New Curriculum is so absurd that one would have to be...

  • August 18, 2020

    Need for evidence

    Official figures suggest that the pandemic has abated in Pakistan. This...

  • August 14, 2020

    The SNC needs to be reconsidered

    At its most basic, education has two dimensions – what is taught and...

  • August 09, 2020

    The downward spiral

    The mandate of the Higher Education Commission should now be to save...

  • June 17, 2020

    Epidemics within epidemics

    The coronavirus pandemic is bad enough but, as dozens of countries have...

  • June 01, 2020

    Count the dead

    The relatively low number of Covid-19 deaths reported in South Asia...

  • April 10, 2020

    A test of leadership

    Every single person is at risk – even Prince Charles and Boris Johnson...

  • November 12, 2019

    Life without sunshine

    For weeks we have not seen the sun in Lahore. There is light without...

  • December 09, 2018

    Miseducating Pakistan

    Education is a big-ticket item. Clarity is needed about its relationship...

  • September 27, 2018

    The morning after

    It is a fact that few outside Pakistan consider the most recent electoral...

  • April 04, 2017

    Silly season in Pakistan

    The last shred of doubt regarding the reality of climate change should...

  • March 19, 2017

    Questions on CPEC

    Has there been a fruitful line of inquiry regarding the China-Pakistan...

  • April 02, 2016

    A toothless tiger?

    I had proposed a civil society initiative to constitute a People’s...

  • March 25, 2016

    Taj Mahal and the Planning Commission

    The Taj Mahal was the nub of the argument in a recent opinion piece by Dr...

  • March 11, 2016

    Clarity on language

    One can agree with most things Pervez Hoodbhoy says on language and yet...