Waqar Hassan

  PAKISTAN’S universities produce thousands of graduates each year, but for too many, graduation marks the beginning of unemployment rather than of a career. Instruction…

  SUMMER vacations were once declared to shield children from extreme heat. Schools still keep that calendar, yet the notification closing them makes no provision…

A ten-year-old sits in a Pakistani classroom, five years into her schooling, unable to read the sentence written on the board. She is enrolled, counted…

  FOR a minute, imagine that none of us will be here tomorrow; that today is the last day granted to us on this earth.…

In 356 BC, a man walked into the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus — one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world — and…

  IT is remarkable that humans, who once fought with bows, arrows, and swords, may eventually be supplanted by machines in warfare. That imagination began…

  EVERY third Pakistani child is growing up outside a classroom. Behind this staggering figure lie 25 million futures at risk and a nation whose…

  THE Industrial Revolution changed work, the Internet changed communication and AI is expected to redefine thought, learning and creation. We are about to experience…

  WHEN we open a tap in Lahore, Karachi or Quetta and nothing safe comes out, the instinct is to blame the man at the…

AN institution’s direction is established by its leadership. Without leadership, institutions cannot achieve the vision needed for genuine transformation. A fundamental crisis in Pakistan’s education…