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Pakistan's reform experiment

In 2002, Pakistan began an ambitious overhaul of its higher-education system. The successes and failures of the experience hold lessons for other countries, say Athar Osama and co-authors.

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  1. Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise Task Force on Improvement of Higher Education in Pakistan (World Bank and UNESCO, 2002).

  2. Pakistan: An Assessment of the Medium-Term Development Framework Report No. 37247 (World Bank, 2006).

  3. Evaluation of USAID Higher Education Portfolio Task Order No. REE-I-07-05-00053-00 (USAID, 2008)

  4. Rising Star Rankings Science Watch (Thomson Reuters, 2008); available at http://sciencewatch.com/dr/rs/08sep-rs

  5. Higher Education Commission Report 2002-2008 (Higher Education Commission, 2008).

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Osama, A., Najam, A., Kassim-Lakha, S. et al. Pakistan's reform experiment. Nature 461, 38–39 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461038a

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