January 19, 2007

In Pakistan, the Problems That Money Can Bring

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

Spending on higher education has gone up, but critics say academic standards are going down

Four undergraduates from the new Air University here dash up, breathless, to talk to a visitor from abroad one afternoon in November. "We heard you are asking students about their views on Pakistan's higher education, and we really want to talk about it," says Sidra Haque, a bespectacled telecommunications-engineering major, fashionably clad in a form-fitting pink tunic and loose trousers known