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Getting girls into school in Pakistan's Punjab region

Opinion: Imposing an arbitrary national language would only divide Pakistan further

14 Sep 2016

Arthur Dudney (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) discusses Pakistan's struggle over what language to use for government.

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Pakistan schoolgirl

Opinion: Confronting the Taliban – an educational encounter

09 Mar 2016

Dr David Gosling (Faculty of Divinity) discusses his time on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, his encounters with the Taliban and why education is...

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Topography of Hindu Kush.

Earthquake rocks Afghanistan and Pakistan – an area prone to magnitude 7 quakes

27 Oct 2015

Professor Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses the devastating earthquake that struck Afghanistan on October 26 and the geological...

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India: Teaching Girls

Education that adds up

16 Oct 2015

We are in the midst of a “global learning crisis” according to UNESCO, with too many children worldwide learning little or nothing at school. A new...

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Arif with grade students and their mentors at a charity school in Rawalpindi run by The Citizen Foundation (TCF). Arif gave a motivational speech to them to pursue their dreams through education and beyond.

How can education be truly transformative?

14 Oct 2014

Arif Naveed is a Gates Cambridge Scholar who has already had a major impact on education policy in his home country, Pakistan. At Cambridge he will...

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Decline of Bronze Age ‘megacities’ linked to climate change

27 Feb 2014

Climate change may have contributed to the decline of a city-dwelling civilisation in Pakistan and India 4,100 years ago, according to new research.

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A natural industriousness?

13 Jan 2014

To make an impact on policy, you need to get your hands dirty, as Dr Kamal Munir, author of Pakistan’s industrial policy, explains.

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Hearts' empath

High-risk hearts: a South Asian epidemic

30 Jun 2011

Why is heart disease increasing at a greater rate in South Asia than in any other region globally? Large-scale population studies in Pakistan and...

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Men display their scars after kidney removal

What price a human kidney?

14 May 2011

A public talk at Cambridge University on Saturday will draw attention to the growing illegal trade in human organs and invite discussion of the...

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India. Rajasthan. The Holy Hindu lake of Pushkar

South Asian studies in the age of globalisation

17 Mar 2011

The Centre of South Asian Studies fosters a vibrant University-wide research community whose interests span the societies of India, Pakistan...

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Faculty of Education Building

Lessons from learning studies

01 Nov 2010

Two research programmes in the Faculty of Education are bringing new insight to the impact and implementation of education in developing countries...

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Fieldwork in China

When disaster strikes

01 Nov 2010

Using satellite imagery, researchers have developed the first systematic approach for tracking the recovery of regions stricken by natural disaster...

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