Following photo is courtesy of _tunnel_. The photo was taken on May 14, 2008 in Malir, Karachi. Private educational institutions have become big business in Pakistan, but this picture is also about so much more. What comes to your mind when you see this?
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Is there any in Chicago???????
Sajjad,
I think what the sign implies is that this is the same East-West university that is in Chicago (which there is), and this is there Karachi campus/branch.
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East / West and then Chicago….
Dhoobi ka kutta, na ghar ka na ghaat ka.
(forgive me , if this sounds indecent)
Statistics suggest private schools and universities are doing a better and more efficient job of providing education in Pakistan, at lower cost than the government sector. As I learnt this Saturday at HDF’s 2nd Annual Convention (held in Chicago actually), 35% of enrollees in schools in Pakistan go to private institutions and they charge very modest fees on average. To the extent that government schools and universities cannot fill the demand for education, there is no shame in private institutions popping up, regardless of name and association. The situation is not ideal but lets deal with the way things are and focus on what is demanded and what seems to work.
I am privileged to know Dr Wasiullah Khan and others like Zafar Malik who’ve built East-West University into an institution the majority of whose students are the first ones in their family to go to college. If any institution is to be emulated, this is a good one to pick.