Around 70 per cent of private schools are either being run by government teachers or owned by them

Despite shoddy infrastructure of schools, the annual development programme budget is not being utilised in full

Statistics on the loss of lives in traffic accidents are shocking

Imagine the condition of students and teachers in areas where temperatures hover above 40◦C during the summer season

We need to learn how to trust provinces and not view them as suspicious entities as that widens the trust deficit

Sindh needs a new, radical vision for education. We need a solution that offers modern knowledge, skills to the young

With hotchpotch thinking and confused approaches we should only expect selected examples of improvements

Challenge is to inculcate a desire among existing teachers to acquire new skills, knowledge, apply them in classrooms

A hierarchical schooling system has turned education from a common good, to a commodity available to only a select few

Unlike Pakistan, education is not a fundamental right in Bangladesh but it is in directive principles of state policy.