The federal government has taken the easy route of levying higher taxes on those who are already in the tax net without targeting those high-income earners who under-report their incomes or manage to remain outside the income tax net. This policy of squeezing taxpayers...

By and large, the quality of education in Pakistan is poor. But it is not uniformly poor. Some schools are worse than others. If we were to think of the school education system as a pyramid with a few elite schools (public as well...

These days education research is increasingly becoming coincident with policy research. In fact, a reviewer’s comments on one of the papers I co-authored went like this: It did not deserve to be published because it was not policy relevant. Upshot: It was bad research...

Today, children enter the education system at the age of just two and a half; by 16, many are undertaking more than ten ‘A’ levels when the minimum requirement is only three. It is not surprising therefore, that teaching time has also spread outside...

Malala Yousafzai’s powerful speech at the United Nations last month has mobilized the cause of girls’ education on the world stage. This call for action comes at a time when a momentous push is needed to make progress towards the Millennium Development Goal on...