Importance of Career Counseling – Your Guide!

By Basit Saeed

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people pass matriculation in Pakistan. Many of them end up in high school (known as college or intermediate in Pakistan). Mostly students go for Pre-engineering because this way, they’d have the choice to opt commerce-related courses in the future. Unfortunately, over a fraction of the students who pass intermediate are able to study in universities because of the excessive pressure of making money to feed one’s family and quite expensive fee structure of the universities (a not-so-much-of-a-prestigious university offers a bachelor program in around 3.5-4 hundred thousand rupees. And that’s just basic tuition-fee. Not to mention all the other expenses like travel, stationary, course material, etc., make the overall cost reach 5-6 hundred thousand rupees.

Career Counselling

By Ali Moeen Nawazish


Monday, July 16, 2012

The News Education Expo is organized every year and it provides a platform for educational institutions to reach out to students across the major cities. This year the education expo happened bigger and better than ever in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. A large number of people, particularly students of all level of education systems, many accompanied by their parents, visited the expo and took a keen interest in the event.

Employment has not kept pace with GDP growth

By Zafar-ul-Hassan Almas

Although most macro-economic indicators in Pakistan have improved in recent years, employment generation has notkept pace. Some critics describe this as a classic example of "jobless and joyless growth." The greatest challenge for Shaukat Aziz as prime minister, therefore, is to tackle the problem of unemployment.

Making choices: Career counselling in secondary schools

By Mariam Naeem Khan

American author Napoleon Hill has wisely remarked, “No man can succeed in a line of endeavour which he does not like” and it’s very true, indeed. One needs to be on the right career track coupled with an appropriate set of skills to flourish outright. However, deciding which career to opt for has, is and will always be a daunting task for many, especially young teenagers, who are faced with numerous career choices and are constantly bombarded with unsought, frivolous advise from virtually every one they meet in today’s world.

Field of dreams

By Sumaiya Lakhani

A tomato field is an unlikely place to find inspiration, but amid the trees, mud and growing shoots, there it was: Inspiration with a capital ‘I’.
As odd as that may sound, what’s even odder is that it came as I saw a corporate banker jump over a mound, followed by a gaggle of giggling students in matching beige uniforms.
This was the moment when I got my first glimpse of the mentor-mentee relationship that forms the basis of The Citizen Foundation’s Rahbar programme.
Started in 2008, Rahbar is a mentorship programme that aims at the development of Pakistan’s youth on many levels. It’s come a long way since its humble beginnings and now includes over 1,000 volunteer mentors who have reached out to about 4,500 students in different cities.