Waqar Hassan

A student submits an elegant essay but cannot explain its central argument. A teacher produces a lesson plan in seconds but has not checked its…

  A child learns a paragraph about evaporation, reproduces it accurately in an examination and receives full marks. Later, asked why a wet shirt dries…

  ON the morning of 15 October, the children of Al-Khair Education Centre in Dir Colony, Peshawar, had barely begun their first lesson when the…

  ON World Teachers’ Day, Pakistan paid tribute to the people entrusted with educating its children. In his October 5 message, the prime minister emphasised…

  IMAGINE a student who can reproduce a polished essay on water scarcity, complete with quotations, causes and recommendations. Ask the same student why a…

  ASK three sources how many Pakistani children are out of school and the answers vary dramatically. The figure repeated in policy speeches and donor…

  WHEN fuel prices rose sharply in March, the government closed schools for two weeks, moved universities online and placed public offices on a four-day…

  IN less than three years, Punjab has transferred the management of roughly thirteen thousand government schools to private operators, non-governmental organizations and individual licensees.…

  THIS summer, Punjab established 6,060 learning camps across 3,030 selected schools in twelve districts. The eight-week initiative, notified under the Taleem Programme, targeted foundational…

  PAKISTAN declared an education emergency on 8 May 2024, the Prime Minister undertaking to supervise it personally and to bring some 26 million out-of-school…