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01 September

How serious is our national curriculum about climate change? Findings from Geography Curriculum Review

A disaster has hit us hard, and more is expected in the coming years with far more intensity than what we witnessed today. It is now time to sober up and get off with our national obsession with defining religious morals through education. We needed a science-orientated education instead, that could have given us the capacity to deal with calamities that we are today facing. Perhaps it is still not too late to wake up; perhaps a sincere resolve to reform our education in light of current realities can save Pakistan from major disasters in future.

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26 December

Is the state violating Right to Education of over two million students by closing low-cost private schools in Cantonment Areas

Where is Article 25-A? Can we not save Pakistan’s future? A time is not far when Pakistan will no longer be able to see any locally educated doctors, engineers, architects, pilots, scientists, teachers to run the economy. All that will be left are the children that grew into darkness and had no skills or knowledge or vocations to compete with the world. That is when it will already be too late for the state to realize the tragic mistakes it is making now by denying education to our precious children.

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10 November

Imparting empathy and civic-sense in children (observations and learnings from an informal school-setting)

The main philosophy adapted by this informal school is to bring a meaningful learning opportunity for the children coming from the alienated groups, so the education and the related values they receive from is appealing to them and their community, and the learners of this group develop confidence in availing opportunities in life which they are aiming for.        

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13 October

The Technical Flaws of the Single National Curriculum (as identified by Zulfiqar Ali)

the activities given against the SLOs are not related to their corresponding Blooms levels. For example, in this particular case, the SLO requires a low level of remembering or understanding, but the suggested activity rather belongs to creating the higher order thinking level of the Blooms Taxonomy. There are many other instances like this where activities are not aligned or rationalized with the demand of SLOs.

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