Pakistani Student Population Surging in Australia

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well no Pakistani student was killed in Recent years

The killer was apparently a psychopath and had not known the victim nor was he concerned about the victim's origins.

 

[Safriz]

The killer was apparently a psychopath and had not known the victim nor was he concerned about the victim's origins.

the most common excuse for escaping murder charges

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

I disagree. It's like saying Nobel prizes have been devalued because one such prize was given undeservedly to Henry Kissinger.

Both the quality and quantity of higher education in Pakistan have been steadily improving since the HEC was heavily funded and reformed under Dr. Ataur Rahman's leadership in the last decade. However, the demand for higher education in Pakistan is rising faster than supply....hence the need for many to go overseas for advanced training.

Haq's Musings: Dr. Ata-ur-Rahman Defends Pakistan's Higher Education Reforms
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You have got to be joking. PhD for Peace? By that standard, I deserve to be World Leader because I'm awesome.
Henry Kissinger was one of the best diplomats.

I totally agree with you in the second part HEC has advanced higher education like no other. Pakistanis are learning that education is the key to the future. But Quality is also a function in this occasion, and having the ability to go abroad and not taking advantage is a very disappointing .

 

[scrumpy]

the most common excuse for escaping murder charges

Psychopath.. not mentally insane.
BBC News - Anuj Bidve murder accused Kiaran Stapleton at crown court

 

[miss]

well no Pakistani student was killed in Recent years

murde ko kya marna

 

[Prometheus]

While the overall foreign student population in Australia has declined this year, the number of Pakistanis studying in Australia is continuing double-digit growth, according to recent Australian government data on international education. Pakistan has now become the top growth market for Australia's struggling international education industry, even though revenue from its neighbor India fell almost $1 billion in a single year, according to The Australian newspaper. New Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal that Australia's fourth-biggest export industry is turning to new markets to counter a $2.2bn loss of revenue last year.

Haq's Musings: Pak Students Buck Decline in Australia

to author of this blog.......................false data as always.
Tight British visas driving Indian students to Australia - Yahoo! News India

 

[RiazHaq]

to author of this blog.......................false data as always.
Tight British visas driving Indian students to Australia - Yahoo! News India

Here's the Australian govt data which is cited in my post:

Australia's earnings from the top 12 foreign markets all fell last year, topped by India, which slumped by 37 per cent, but Pakistan bucked the trend, with revenue rising 15 per cent to $253 million.

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[bindaas]

well no Pakistani student was killed in Recent years

No, you were talking about right to work, is it confined to Indians only???

 

[Omar1984]

 

[Hutchroy]

I disagree. It's like saying Nobel prizes have been devalued because one such prize was given undeservedly to Henry Kissinger.

Both the quality and quantity of higher education in Pakistan have been steadily improving since the HEC was heavily funded and reformed under Dr. Ataur Rahman's leadership in the last decade. However, the demand for higher education in Pakistan is rising faster than supply....hence the need for many to go overseas for advanced training.

Haq's Musings: Dr. Ata-ur-Rahman Defends Pakistan's Higher Education Reforms

Young people with advanced education and relevant skills have no trouble finding jobs anywhere.

The dark ages : Masood Hasan - Sunday, May 27, 2012

We all groan about the galloping illiteracy that has all but finished Pakistan. In thousands of schools and colleges across the country, millions are emerging with barely an education worth the name. These hordes, largely illiterate are then reduced to seeking any employment, howsoever menial it might be. Others resort to quicker means of making a living and crime follows soon after. It is frightening to confront the overall dismal situation in Pakistan where vested interests have usurped whatever meagre resources we might have had, taking massive chunks of the budgets and reducing the ‘education’ drive to a mere farce.

We spend just 1.5 percent of our GDP on education and we all know who takes the lion’s, tiger’s and leopard’s share. I think their medals cost more than what this nation spends on education but then who is going to ask the boys to give back the toys they have and who is going to tell them that there won’t be any country left to defend if things carry on like they do. The answer to that too is well known but seldom voiced. Such lopsided thinking can only produce tragic and ugly results. With millions being added to our galloping population, Pakistan is now faced with such daunting and frightening problems that even Attila the Hun would think twice before venturing here.

The statistics make for horror reading and not the kind of thing that you want to wake up and read on a Sunday morning without any electricity but with mosquitoes galore. In this the new century a country which cannot get rid of mosquitoes does not deserve to exist. This is no citadel of Islam – at best servant quarters. Where we are going can drive a chill up anyone’s spine but because the culture now is ‘loot now, abscond later,’ no one truly cares what happens to Pakistan. At school level, mechanically the system churns out robots – ill-informed, ill-prepared and ill-equipped to join others already in the sewers. Those who are able to get a little further up, greasing their way forward or supported by the guess papers and tuition centres, take the illiteracy mega notches ahead.

These are men and women unable to put a sentence together. They have neither been taught anything nor have they absorbed anything of any value. They have never read a book and if they have, cannot recall what it was called. They live in homes where no newspapers ever arrive. If they do, no one reads them. When and if they can write, they approach the paper with fear and hesitation. They form words painfully, labouring over each letter. Their writing is clumsy and wriggly at best, like a shopkeeper will painfully put together an invoice. A word like ‘one dozen’ will send them into a paroxysm of agony. It’s a scenario that is simply the equivalent of doomsday yet the ‘higher authorities’ are losing no sleep over it.

If what we are churning out is scary, look at what we are teaching the young ones. A posh school (as these are invariably called), ran a test for 7-year-olds to celebrate March 23. Among the brilliant questions that were put to them, were gems such as ‘who designed the Pakistan flag?’ Quite fixated by this subject, the examiners wanted to know ‘who wrote Pakistan’s national anthem?’ ‘When was the national anthem approved?’, ‘who composed it?’ and ‘what was its duration?’ (80 seconds in case you did not know) and so on. It also asked the 7-year-olds, ‘the total area of Pakistan?’ (796,095 sq.km) and informed all that the biggest salt mine located in Pakistan was at Mingora (!!!!). It cites 1971’s major event as ‘Bangladesh’s breaking away from Pakistan.’ Excuse me gents but was it not ‘East Pakistan?’ Bangladesh came much later. For some odd reason it wished to know where the tomb of Emperor Jahan is located, but did not specify Shah Jahan or Noor Jahan. Oh well, same family really.

Much that goes into what is Pakistan History, Current Affairs or Social Studies is loaded with falsehood. Each regime has managed to alter the syllabi to its liking. I am not aware of what they are planting into young minds these days but do recall that at one stage Zulfikar Ali Bhutto got about two lines and at another time, simply did not exist. This was rectified when his party swept into the government and in turn reduced its enemies to a line or two. My generation grew up on Messers Ghaznavi and Ghauri, lauded as some kind of Islamic visionaries, whereas in reality they were no more than marauding thieves who repeatedly attacked rich India and looted, enslaved and made off with all they could find. Razing Hindu temples glorified their looting.

It was years later, long after college, that one read the truth. But falsehood or not, what is scary is the quality of the instruction that is being poured into young and impressionable minds. The examination of the 7-year-olds is objectionable because if Pakistan History is largely a matter of anthem singing and whatnot, those who are supposedly responsible are guilty of misguiding their young students. That is not simply unfortunate but downright criminal.

Those men and women for instance who ‘develop’ material that then gets into textbooks cannot let prejudice, hatred, intolerance and warped thinking shape their views.. Neither can they be a party to what the government of the day wishes, but we all know that these are mere theoretical exercises. The truth is altogether different and whatever we inject into young minds shapes thinking for the rest of their days, few overcoming the lies they were fed when they were just children.

I don’t know how the antecedents of the national anthem will help the 7-year-olds but it is sobering to consider what eighth graders were asked in 1895 in far away Salina, Kansas, USA. In Grammar: ‘Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.’ ‘Define verse, stanza and paragraph.’ In Arithmetic: ‘Name and define the fundamental rules of Arithmetic,’ and ‘Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days at 10 Percent.’ In Geography: ‘What is climate? Upon what does it depend?’ ‘Of what use are rivers and oceans?’ ‘Describe the movements of the earth.’ And so on. I tried but couldn’t answer more than a quarter of the questions.

We have an army – excuse the pun of illiterates and they are growing. When the criterion of literacy is what we have fashioned here, it is not a surprise that the nation is blank. Our so called Matric is laughable as is our FA/FSc. Meaningless exams with nothing of consequence. Those who make it to the graduate or post graduate level cannot put two sentences together. Our country refuses to buy books or go to a library – the few that we have. Pretty soon we won’t even know how and where to affix our thumbs but our arsenal will be awesome.

The writer is a Lahore-based columnist. Email: masoodhasan66@gmail.com

 

[Edevelop]

well no Pakistani student was killed in Recent years

No offense to you, but when i was living in England, i saw a trend of not many Pakistanis interested in studying. Many have become gangsters and they are living illegally on council benefit...