New Social Compact
The drive for quality education worldwide, faces ‘mammoth challenges’
Aligning inclusive, quality education with the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) was centre-stage on Friday, as the President of the UN General
Assembly held a high-level interactive...
Frankly Speaking: School Safety as a Concept Matters
Safety in school is a microcosm of safety
in society, its social institutions and beyond. Squelch, 2001, has defined, a
safe school as one that is...
From Wall-Less Design to Robotics Training: Meet the 16 Schools Defining the Future of Education
The World Economic Forum identified 16 Schools of the Future – defined as schools,
school systems and programmes – that are playing a critical role...
Understanding the gender pay gap: Definition and causes
Although the equal pay for
equal work principle was already introduced in the Treaty of
Rome in 1957, the so-called gender pay gap stubbornly persists with...
Presidents, Pharaohs and Prophets
Over
millennia national leadership managed its population on basic divides: Soldiers
to just follow orders, workers to just get soldiers ready to march and artists just
to...
Evils of black magic
In today’s dynamic
world, everyone is occupied in their own matters whether it’s their family life
or career. Basically, we all are in a consistent race...
I benefitted from migration, let others do so too
I come from a family of migrants. In the early 1900s, the British
colonial authorities brought both of my great-grandfathers from Utter Pradesh
in India to...
Sports: A battlefield for freedom of expression and political change
Athletes, executives and fans are turning
sports in an era of defiance and
dissent into
a battleground for freedom of expression and political change, putting national
and international...
More than a Lifetime Away: World Faces 100-Year Wait for Gender Parity
The time it will take to close the gender gap narrowed
to 99.5 years in 2019. While an improvement on 2018 – when the gap...
Gold-digging & Gender Biases in Pakistani Dramas
The phenomenon of gender-bias can be found in history as old as ever
recorded in the form of written text or visual entertainment. Biases are...