The Curious Case of Nursery Admissions

Posted on March 27, 2010
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Omar R. Quraishi Admissions to the nursery section and class III of arguably the city’s most prestigious school, Karachi Grammar, commenced from this week, according to a notification posted on the school’s admissions website and interviews conducted with parents of applicants. Last year, the nursery section admitted around 120 students from a pool of 1,500 […]

Adil Najam Even when print publications were not under the type of pressures that they are today (because of internet based publishing), academic journals have always been a rather difficult enterprise to sustain. They survive mostly to the extent that libraries are willing and able to pay the high library subscriptions. Therefore an academic journal, […]

Text Books by Pakistani Authors: Why the Dearth?

Posted on February 26, 2010
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Owais Mughal In this post we will talk about two topics. One is the dearth of technical books in Urdu and second is the dearth of text books in any language by Pakistani authors at undergraduate and graduate level. I have a habit. Every few days I like to sit in front of my book […]

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