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Do we really care for special children?
Special children are still considered a liability, burden and a shame by some
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Social deterrence to bad governance
Around 70 per cent of private schools are either being run by government teachers or owned by them
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Education emergency in Sindh
Despite shoddy infrastructure of schools, the annual development programme budget is not being utilised in full
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Accidents or murders?
Statistics on the loss of lives in traffic accidents are shocking
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How can we only blame the teachers?
Imagine the condition of students and teachers in areas where temperatures hover above 40◦C during the summer season
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Education: overstepping constitutional limits
We need to learn how to trust provinces and not view them as suspicious entities as that widens the trust deficit
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Crumbling schools of thought
Sindh needs a new, radical vision for education. We need a solution that offers modern knowledge, skills to the young
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Reforms for schools
With hotchpotch thinking and confused approaches we should only expect selected examples of improvements
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Tackling the poor quality of teaching
Challenge is to inculcate a desire among existing teachers to acquire new skills, knowledge, apply them in classrooms
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A hierarchical education system
A hierarchical schooling system has turned education from a common good, to a commodity available to only a select few