covid-19 – The Students' Herald

COVID-19 and Pakistan’s shrinking Economy

March 24, 2021April 20, 2021 Our ContributorNews and Analysis

The outbreak of coronavirus has shattered people’s social and economic life badly, infecting more than 1 billion people and causing death to around 2.6 million all across the world. COVID-19 is reshaping the world’s cultural, political, social, and economic matters.…

COVID-19 and Education for Students in Peripheries

June 14, 2020 News DeskOpinions and Comments

Muhammad Bezinjo The outbreak of the contagious COVID-19 virus in Pakistan has disrupted social life and the economy of the country. The pandemic has also affected the education sector and universities were forced to adopt the online lecture system. This…

How COVID-19 has impacted working class people

May 3, 2020 News DeskOpinions and Comments

COVID-19 has thrown up a gigantic challenge for labour across the world, writes Muhammad Azam Nagra

COVID-19 and the case for Student Unions

May 3, 2020 News DeskOpinions and Comments

Salman Sikandar As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic hit Pakistan, all universities began sending fee notifications to students, even though the so-called online classes they were conducting cannot be in any measure be equated with real classes. Some universities went…

Rethinking Higher Education System in Pakistan in Response to COVID-19

April 19, 2020 News DeskEnglish

By Mariam Sheikh As learning shifts to digital spaces in Pakistan, the COVID-19 crisis has brought forward clear existing differences in the educational experiences of students across the country. Students are suddenly forced into a cobweb of anxieties, uncertainties and…

Lessons from COVID-19

April 19, 2020 News DeskEnglish

By Raja Faheem Shoukat Dhirkot, Bagh, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Sometimes painful things teach us lessons that we didn’t think we need to learn. Reminding us of the important things in life that we seem to have forgotten,