Stories from Muhammad Hamid Zaman
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Reforming the admissions system
Premier national engineering institution, UET Lahore, on its admissions page assumes only male applicants would apply
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Classroom: no place for guns!
Expecting teachers to do what state should do, but is unwilling or unable to do, is a sign of miserable failure
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Educating the parents
The pressure to become a doctor or an engineer is often just based on social pressures
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The lost books
In places like Urdu Bazaar Karachi, what used to be bookstalls on the street are now carts to buy stationary
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Hazardous hospitals
Right outside the main gate of JPMC, visitors are greeted by an open sewer, or as locals call it, ‘khula gutter’
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Shaukat Khanum in Peshawar — rising above politics
Shaukat Khanum Hospital and Research Centre in Peshawar reflects the best of what our politicians should aspire for
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Academia at the altar of convenience
HEC or other organisations should not dictate how anyone thinks or views a particular area of research
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Heavy burden on teachers
In our universities, faculty find themselves inundated with a back-breaking teaching load
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The liability of higher education
The social pressure on parents of qualified and motivated young women to stifle their ambition to study is enormous
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The difference between knowledge and information
Teachers creating powerpoint presentations from images in Wikipedia and reading off of those in classrooms is shameful









