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Pak education system faces tough year amid third COVID wave ANI 06 May 2021, 03:56 GMT+10 Islamabad [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): As Pakistan struggles with a deadly third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's education system has come to a grinding halt, with parents becoming frustrated due to uncertainty about their children's future. For the fourth time in the last year, educational institutions, from Prep to the Post-doctoral level, have suspended face-to-face teaching and instead have introduced online teaching, reported Gulf News. As the final exams have also been delayed for a few mo...

Islamabad [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): As Pakistan struggles with a deadly third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's education system has come to a grinding halt, with parents becoming frustrated due to uncertainty about their children's future.

Pakistan’s education system has come to a grinding halt, and there is nothing that seems to work to get it going again smoothly. For the fourth time in the last one year educational institutions, from Prep to the Post-doctoral level, have suspended face-to-face teaching and instead have introduced online teaching. The finals exams have also been delayed for a few months. The latest change in the teaching and learning field is different from the past instances primarily because the stakes are as high as frustration is rising among the parents who continue to pay the fees but see endless expe...

Everyone’s an expert April 7, 2021 The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University. Back in the 90s, a young person from a middle-class family lacking funds but aspiring to go to grad-school in the West had very few options. There was little in the way of public awareness of the prerequisites for securing admission and funding. The government funded options available were the dozens of ‘S&T Scholarships’ of the Ministry of Science and Technology, but competition for them was fierce. After the upgradation of th...