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Education

Biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years

By thehighasia
January 14, 2019
in :  Education, Literature, World
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By Emily Temple As the year draws to a close, some of us like to look forward, and some of us backward—and some way backward. Last month, while working on the not-at-all-controversial Books That Defined the Decades series, I was often surprised by the dissonance between the books that sold well in any given year and the books that we now consider relevant, important, …

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Toward changing the language of creative writing classrooms

By thehighasia
January 7, 2019
in :  Education, Literature, Opinion
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Praise, like criticism, can make us forget what art is for By  Helen Betya Rubinstein I open the creative writing courses I teach with this vow: “I’ve seen far too many workshops become an indoctrination into an instructor’s taste—a semester-long exhortation to love what the instructor loves and to hate what he does too—and I am going to do my best …

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British educator Geoffrey Douglas Langlands dies

By thehighasia
January 3, 2019
in :  Chitral, Education
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By Karimullah  He visited Chitral in 1989 and established Sayurge Public School later renamed after Langlands Public School and College.  He got retirement in 2012, after serving the institute for 25 years as its founding Principal. Chitral Geoffrey Douglas Langlands, a noted educator, and a former British officer has died in Lahore aged 101. He was admitted to a Lahore …

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What is the morally appropriate language in which to think and write?

By thehighasia
January 2, 2019
in :  Education, Latest, Opinion
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Arundhati Roy on the complex, shifting politics of language and translation in India By  Arundhati Roy The following is Arundhati Roy’s W. G. Sebald Lecture on Literary Translation, commissioned by the British Centre for Literary Translation and the National Centre for Writing. It was delivered at the British Library on June 5, 2018. At a book reading in Kolkata, about a week …

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Activists for task force to enroll 12m out of school girls

By thehighasia
November 30, 2018
in :  Education, News, Pakistan, Slider
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 HAH Report   Islamabad: Education activists Thursday joined forces to call for the urgent convening of a national Girls’ Education Task Force. In a statement issued here after launching a series of fact sheets to draw attention to the state of girls’ education, the organisations, including Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE), Pakistan Youth Change Advocates (PYCA), Social Youth Council of …

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Erasing girl students

By thehighasia
October 31, 2018
in :  Education, Opinion, Pakistan
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ON Monday, the KP government announced a ban on any male parliamentarian or officer entering, or being invited as chief guest to attend any event in, government schools for girls. The circular, issued by the KP education department, also ordered a blackout of coverage, whether on social or mainstream media, of any such functions. Public opinion on this move has …

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President Rahmon opens campus of first regional varsity in Tajikistan

By thehighasia
September 15, 2018
in :  Archives, Education, High Asia
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  News Desk In what a historic milestone, President Emomali Rahmon Friday (Sept 14) inaugurated the campus of University of Central Asia (UCA), the first regional university, in Tajikistan. Khorog campus is the second to become operational since its Naryn campus was inaugurated in Kyrgyzstan in 2016. The UCA was founded in 2000 as “a private, not for profit, secular …

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Third season of GBCL kicks off with a colourful cultural program

By thehighasia
April 26, 2018
in :  Arts & Culture, Education, Islamabad, Latest News, Slider
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Ali Ahmed Jan The much-awaited Gilgit-Baltistan Champions League (GBCL) kicked off with a greater participation of the enthusiastic and talented teams from over two dozen universities and colleges of twin cities of Islamabad-Rawalpindi and Lahore. The opening ceremony of the third season of the mega event was held at the Open Air Theatre of the Pakistan National Council of the …

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Suppression of critical thinking has given rise to current socio-political malaise: Hoodbhoy

By thehighasia
March 25, 2018
in :  Education, Islamabad, Latest News, Pakistan, Slider, World
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HAH Special Report ISLAMABAD: Suppression of critical thinking and scientific enquiry have given rise to the current social and political malaise in Pakistan, says Prof Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, a famed physicist and social activist. He held the establishment-centred feudal dominated political system for the intellectual decay and suffocation in the country. “Pakistani society is afflicted by a culture of rote-learning …

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Academics from world, local top varsities voice concern at social media campaign against two PU teachers

By thehighasia
March 13, 2018
in :  Education, Latest News, Literature, Slider, World
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In a letter, over 60 noted professors, researchers urge Punjab university admin, provincial authorities to ensure the protection of life to Dr Ammar Ali Jan, Islam Wazir HAH Report Islamabad: Prominent professors, researchers, and students of leading universities of the world and Pakistan have expressed concern at the “malicious” campaign launched against two faculty members of the Punjab University by the …

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Manufacturing Zombies 

By thehighasia
February 27, 2018
in :  Education, Latest News, Opinion, Pakistan, Slider
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By Waseem Altaf Writing textbooks for students who are in a formative stage is serious business. Errors and omissions on part of the writers due to lethargy, ignorance or self-complacency are pardonable and can be corrected. However, when textbooks are written with the express aim of misguiding the pupils and indoctrinating adherence to status quo, support for the regime in …

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Role of student unions in promotion of democratic culture on campus, in society highlighted

By thehighasia
February 26, 2018
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Anayat Baig KARACHI: Academics, student activists, and journalists emphasized the importance of freedom of expression and role of student unions in the promotion and strengthening of democratic culture and values on campuses and in society. They held academics responsible for self-censorship, espousing anti-politics narrative, reinforcing the legacy of dictatorship and reducing the chances of the 60 percent youth bulge to …

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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