Rug Pundits » Education http://rugpundits.com From the other side of the fence Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:07:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Imam Hatip school’s model of Islamic education http://rugpundits.com/2010/02/25/imam-hatip-schools-model-of-islamic-education/ http://rugpundits.com/2010/02/25/imam-hatip-schools-model-of-islamic-education/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:29:04 +0000 Yasir Hussain http://rugpundits.com/?p=453 Imam Hatip is a secondary level school in Turkey which teaches Arabic and Quran, and a wide array of literature including Stefanie Meyer’s Eclipse! A far cry from a stereotype madrassah model, it opens a door of opportunity for moderate model of education. DAWN shows small gallery from the school here and school’s website can be accessed here (English translation). Reuters also did a piece recently.

]]> http://rugpundits.com/2010/02/25/imam-hatip-schools-model-of-islamic-education/feed/ 1 Pakistan’s Attempted Overhaul of its Educational System http://rugpundits.com/2009/10/10/pakistans-overhaul-of-its-education-system/ http://rugpundits.com/2009/10/10/pakistans-overhaul-of-its-education-system/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:42:25 +0000 Jakob Steiner http://pakchronicle.com/?p=28 A short piece on the attempts of HEC to improve Higher Education in Pakistan since 2002 was published by Athar Osama in Nature this month. It gives a quick insight which fields did manage to catch up and which did not.

Politically speaking it was an initiative that can be credited to former President Musharraf, or at least his at the time military government. And this was not the only positive reform that started off in his time. Although – and Osama points that out well, what was, and is still lacking is an independent review of the people in charge.

You need to be a subscriber or get access via your university subscription: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7260/pdf/461038a.pdf

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