Tag Archive for Education

University of North Texas Signs a Cooperative Agreement with National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad

by Masood Raja • November 2, 2012

I take this opportunity to share some details about this exciting new cooperative agreement between UNT (my home institution) and NUML. The reason I did not offer you the usual doze of my public writings for the past few months…

by Masood Raja • July 6, 2012

Last year I, along with Dr. Qaisar Abbas and Dr. Saleha Suleman, established a need-based scholarship for diasporic and heritage Pakistani students at the University of North Texas. Now a recognized fund at UNT, the fund is housed in College…

by Masood Raja • April 24, 2012

Having read enough of Gayatri Spivak to understand the power dynamics involved in the center-periphery exchanges, I have always been wary of the role of the cultural informant. As a scholar of postcolonial studies, therefore, I always keep a critical…

by Pervez Hoodbhoy • February 9, 2012

Zero attention was paid to recent news which, in many a country, would justifiably have been cause for panic. But in Memogate obsessed Pakistanno military or civilian ruler – or any normally loquacious TV anchor – has yet commented upon…

by Masood Raja • May 24, 2011

Partition and Locality: Violence, Migration, and Development in Gujranwala and Sialkot, 1947-1961 (Oxford University Press, 2011) Ilyas Chattha Readership / Level It clearly would be of international interest for both scholars and general readers in history, sociology and politics. It will…

by Masood Raja • May 4, 2011

Worldly Teaching: Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature An Edited Collection As universities move from a Eurocentric literature curriculum to one focused on world or global literature, there has emerged a need for a text that addresses the issues of teaching…

by Masood Raja • April 28, 2011

In terms of actual expenses, the five corps commanders cost us way more than the entire budget of HEC. If our politicians need money, they should have the guts to conduct a thorough audit of money wasted by the army…

by Shaikh M. Ali • April 11, 2011

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is an autonomous organization whose mission is “to facilitate institutions of higher learning to serve as an engine of socio-economic development of Pakistan”. The HEC is not attached to the Ministry of Education. The Prime…

by Masood Raja • April 9, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, a dear friend from Pakistan contacted to inform me that the government of Pakistan had decided to devolve the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to the provinces under the 18th amendment to the constitution of Pakistan.…