By Rudina Xhaferri and Khalid
ECONOMIC crisis hit some countries more than others for various reasons. One country’s lost opportunity is the other’s golden gate out of misery. Pakistan’s strength rests in its young population. While the industrialised countries of Europe and Japan are currently undergoing a negative population growth due to low birth rates, Pakistan has an estimated 36 million young people aged between 15 to 24 years. Alarming statistics regarding the aging population in Japan and its shrinking economy have increased the need for importing workers to run its industries.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Young Achievers
By ZARINA PATEL
The bright, luminous morning of the year 2011 brings with it hopes and optimism for every one especially for young generation. We asked some outstanding young achievers about their future dreams and ambitions and last years performances.
Let us first introduce our interviewers.
The bright, luminous morning of the year 2011 brings with it hopes and optimism for every one especially for young generation. We asked some outstanding young achievers about their future dreams and ambitions and last years performances.
Let us first introduce our interviewers.
Academic and Career Counseling from the Grassroots Level
Written by Sufyan Aquil
When observing the education scene in Pakistan, the common phrases to hear are: “it has become commercialized”, “it has become a money-making machine”, “it has become a ‘business’ industry rather than a platform for public welfare”, and so on. Hearing such observations, one can do nothing but nod helplessly in agreement, and wonder where things have taken a turn for the worse.
When observing the education scene in Pakistan, the common phrases to hear are: “it has become commercialized”, “it has become a money-making machine”, “it has become a ‘business’ industry rather than a platform for public welfare”, and so on. Hearing such observations, one can do nothing but nod helplessly in agreement, and wonder where things have taken a turn for the worse.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Campus Conversation-a career counselling session
GOVERNMENT College University Lahore on Thursday hosted the biggest Pakistan Student Congress 2011 to bring together students with different environments, cultures and schools of thought from all over Pakistan and to inculcate leadership qualities to them.
GCU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Khalee q-ur-Rahman and LUMS’s Vice Provost Dr Shafay Shumayl chaired the closing and opening ceremonies of the four-day Pakistan Student Congress that was organised by the IEEE Pakistan in collaboration with GCU Computer Sciences Department.
Students from 40 educational institutions including LUMS, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, NUST Islamabad, Military College of Signals, PNEC Karachi and Karachi Institute of Engineering and Technology took part in the Congress that spread over 31 sessions which include d competitions, workshops, seminars, talks and social integration activities.
The Congress kicked off with a lecture of Google Pakistan Head Badur Khusnood on “TECHNO-PRENUERSHIP” in which he told the students how to earn money online. The most appreciated event of the Congress was “Campus Conversation-a career counselling session” which was conducted by top management officials of various universities and industries.
Talking about details of the competitions, IEEE GCUL President Ali Turab Gillani said the NUST Islamabad won IEEE Ethics Competition that organised events to encourage the study and awareness of professional ethics among students.
GCU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Khaleeq-ur-Rahman said that such events provided great opportunity to students to exhibit their creativity and talent, and a chance to learn from other students.
GCU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Khalee q-ur-Rahman and LUMS’s Vice Provost Dr Shafay Shumayl chaired the closing and opening ceremonies of the four-day Pakistan Student Congress that was organised by the IEEE Pakistan in collaboration with GCU Computer Sciences Department.
Students from 40 educational institutions including LUMS, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, NUST Islamabad, Military College of Signals, PNEC Karachi and Karachi Institute of Engineering and Technology took part in the Congress that spread over 31 sessions which include d competitions, workshops, seminars, talks and social integration activities.
The Congress kicked off with a lecture of Google Pakistan Head Badur Khusnood on “TECHNO-PRENUERSHIP” in which he told the students how to earn money online. The most appreciated event of the Congress was “Campus Conversation-a career counselling session” which was conducted by top management officials of various universities and industries.
Talking about details of the competitions, IEEE GCUL President Ali Turab Gillani said the NUST Islamabad won IEEE Ethics Competition that organised events to encourage the study and awareness of professional ethics among students.
GCU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Khaleeq-ur-Rahman said that such events provided great opportunity to students to exhibit their creativity and talent, and a chance to learn from other students.
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Two Careers We Are Forced To Opt
By Hamid Rashid Gondal
The first thought on the mind of a father whose wife has just given birth to a baby boy in the maternity hospital is: my boy will become a doctor or engineer. The little boy's fate is often sealed before the nurse cuts the umbilical cord.
I have spotted this big billboard in the bazaar. Apparently, there are only two professions- doctor or engineer - for the children in Pakistan. I have yet to see a family where the father happily allows a brilliant child to study social sciences instead of those hard core sciences.
My father, on the other hand, was very supportive when I broke the news that I am dropping out of my 4-year NUCES-FAST computer degree midway. I opted for law and never repented my dropping out decision.
One of my cousins miserably passed his eighth grade. His mother came to my house, asking me to arrange the 'brilliant' boy's admission in some good school. I asked her why she is insisting for a good school. She answered with the innocence of an Asian mother, "I and his dad want him to study science".
Our parents' wild daydreaming often make as career counselling blunders. I don't know why social sciences are not a priority for our parents when many of them miserably failed to do good in sciences.
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I have spotted this big billboard in the bazaar. Apparently, there are only two professions- doctor or engineer - for the children in Pakistan. I have yet to see a family where the father happily allows a brilliant child to study social sciences instead of those hard core sciences.
My father, on the other hand, was very supportive when I broke the news that I am dropping out of my 4-year NUCES-FAST computer degree midway. I opted for law and never repented my dropping out decision.
One of my cousins miserably passed his eighth grade. His mother came to my house, asking me to arrange the 'brilliant' boy's admission in some good school. I asked her why she is insisting for a good school. She answered with the innocence of an Asian mother, "I and his dad want him to study science".
Our parents' wild daydreaming often make as career counselling blunders. I don't know why social sciences are not a priority for our parents when many of them miserably failed to do good in sciences.
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