The Fall 2020 semester at LUMS, for the first time ever, is set to begin online. This pivot to virtual learning has raised many questions among students regarding what to expect. To shed more light on how the academic experience of students will change, a panel discussion was held during the O-Week...
School of Education
Tue, 2020-03-24
On March 12, 2020, the LUMS School of Education hosted Koen Geven, Economist at the Education Global Practice of the World Bank to present the newly developed ‘Data Depot on Education in Pakistan’, a harmonised collection of 100+ underlying household and establishment level education survey...
Wed, 2020-03-11
On March 4, 2020, LUMS Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) organised a Graduate Networking Event for the Class of 2020. The networking event is an integral part of the placement programme as students get a chance to interact with potential employers and experts in the...
Fri, 2020-02-21
The Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) hosted an EduTalk titled, ‘From Classrooms to Systems’ with its organisational partner Teach for Pakistan (TFP) on January 30, 2020.
Dr. Faisal Bari, Director Academic Programmes, SOE, moderated the panel discussion featuring six...
Fri, 2020-02-14
The Syed Ahsan Ali & Syed Maratib School of Education at LUMS hosted a talk by Professor Lant Pritchett, on February 7, 2020. The talk titled, “The Global Learning Crisis: What We Do Know, What We Don't” was jointly organised by the Mahbub Ul Haq Research Centre at LUMS, Harvard Club of...
Tue, 2020-02-11
On February 7, 2020, Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) hosted a Policy Roundtable on ‘Moving from Summative to Formative Assessments in Punjab’. As the current Punjab government policy regarding Punjab Education Commission is now in the process of revision and reform,...
Fri, 2020-01-31
In collaboration with the Quaid-e-Azam Academy for Educational Development (QAED), the LUMS Syed Ahsan Ali & Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) piloted the Punjab Education Sector Programme (PESP) II, Assistant Education Officers (AEOS) Training Pilot Project across four districts of...
Thu, 2020-01-23
As part of this year’s Alumni Homecoming celebrations, Dr. Tahir Andrabi, Dean Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) conducted a Masterclass for Alumni on Friday, January 10, 2020 where alumni had the chance to relive the one-of-a-kind LUMS classroom experience.
Titled ‘...
Tue, 2019-12-17
The policy roundtable ‘Do Children in Pakistan Learn Anything at all? The What, How, and For Whom of Assessments’, was organised on December 10, 2019 by the LUMS Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE), the World Bank, and the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP)....
Mon, 2019-11-25
The LUMS Open day was held on Sunday, November 17, 2019. Aspiring students and their parents visited the LUMS campus where they attended information sessions on undergraduate and graduate programmes, toured the campus and met with LUMS faculty, administration and students. In addition to the...
Wed, 2019-10-23
On October 17, 2019, Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) hosted an EduSpeak session conducted by Baela Raza Jamil, CEO Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aghahi (ITA), on the topic ‘Research, Policy, Politics - Influencing Public Policy Through Effective Partnerships’. The session was...
Wed, 2019-10-09
On October 3, 2019, the Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) at LUMS invited the Beaconhouse Group to discuss the ideas of educational innovation that are being implemented by the organisation. The presentation was part of the SOE Models of Educational Innovation Series,...
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Thu, 2019-10-03
On October 1, 2019, Jam Kamal Khan, Chief Minister Balochistan, visited LUMS and participated in an interactive session about the province and the steps that can be taken to develop it further. The session was attended by LUMS faculty as well as students at the University who originally hail from...
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Fri, 2019-09-27
LUMS has been ranked the number 1 University in Pakistan, among the top 50 in Asia, and top 200 globally according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employability Ranking 2020.
This is a remarkable achievement for LUMS and reaffirms that students at the University are receiving a...
Tue, 2019-09-24
On September 19, 2019, the Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) had the pleasure of hosting the dynamic team of practitioners from Amal Academy as part of SOE’s Models of Educational Innovation series.
Amal Academy is a platform that is supported by Stanford...
Mon, 2019-09-23
On Friday, September 20, 2019, the Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) at LUMS conducted its first ever Practicum Meeting for the MPhil Education Leadership and Management (ELM) class of 2020. The session was attended by SOE faculty, SOE MPhil students, Mr. Shahid Hussain...
Wed, 2019-09-11
The Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) at LUMS conducted its first Brown Bag session of the new semester on September 4, 2019. Minahil Asim, a PhD candidate at the School Organisation and Education Policy (SOEP) programme at the University of California, Davis, led the...
Fri, 2019-09-06
The LUMS Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) welcomed its second batch of MPhil Education Leadership and Management (ELM) students and conducted a two-day Orientation Session from August 29-30, 2019. The Orientation Session was designed to welcome the incoming class and...
Thu, 2019-08-01
MPhil Education Leadership and Management (ELM) students at the Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE), Habiba Malik, Injila Rasul, and Ummara Waheed, conducted a Robotics Camp in collaboration with faculty from SOE and the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering....
Wed, 2019-07-31
The Centre for Business and Society (CBS) at the Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) organised a customised training programme on Monitoring & Evaluation for the middle and senior level officers of the Merged Areas Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (FATA)...
Mon, 2019-07-29
The annual Seattle Alumni Reunion was held on July 21, 2019 at Mercer Island, Seattle. LUMS Founder and Patron, Syed Babar Ali and Sr. Principal Scientist at Amazon, Dr. Salal Humair also attended the event. The alumni had the opportunity to catch up with each other in a casual setting and hear...
Tue, 2019-07-23
The Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) organized first Ice-cream Social for Advance Summer Learning Initiative (ASLI, 2019) on Wednesday, June 26, (PDC first floor), where students gathered together in the company of instructors, peers, mentors and musicians who...
Mon, 2019-07-22
On Friday July 12, 2019 the LUMS Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) hosted a Leadership workshop titled ‘Building Effective Teams: The Dynamics of Leadership and Trust’ by Werner Zorman, Professor at Harvey Mudd College. Professor Zorman is a leadership development expert...
Fri, 2019-07-19
The annual Bay Area Alumni Reunion was held on the evening of Saturday, 13 July, 2019 at Los Altos Youth Center in Los Altos, California.
The event was graciously hosted by Sophia Khawaja (BSc 1998), President of the Bay Area Chapter, as well as Sanam Humayun (BSc 2005) and Arfah Saeed (BSc...
Tue, 2019-07-09
LUMS MPhil ELM students, Sumaiya Faridi and Waqas Manzoor along with an intern Mohammad Saeed Mahmood from Aitchison College led a workshop for the children of the LUMS custodian staff at Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE). The sessions in this workshop were based on '...
Mon, 2019-07-08
Organised by LUMS and Jazz, the ‘Learning How to Learn’ keynote sessions by Dr. Barbara Oakley were a huge success with a packed auditorium in Islamabad, and over 750 and 600 participants in Lahore and Karachi, respectively. Moreover, the virtual outreach of the talk exceeded hundreds of thousands...
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Sun, 2019-06-30
LUMS held its 31st Convocation ceremony on Sunday, June 30, 2019. With 1034 students receiving degrees, this was the University’s largest Convocation ceremony, to date. Dr. Sania Nishtar, Prime Minister of Pakistan’s special assistant and Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and...
Mon, 2019-05-13
On May 8, 2019, Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) joined hands with Oasis School Trust through a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate outreach efforts by both organisations.
The event started with a welcome note by Mehreen Noon, Director Teaching and Learning...
Thu, 2019-05-02
On Friday, April 26, SOE invited Shad Moarif as a guest speaker to share his body of work with the SOE audience. The topic presented was ‘Past Practices and Current Needs of Teachers and Learners of Mathematics: The Great Divide.’ The talk was moderated by MPhil ELM student, Sumaiya Zafar Faridi,...
Thu, 2019-04-25
The policy roundtable ‘Uniformity, Diversity and Equity in Pakistan’s Complex Education Landscape’, was organised on March 7, 2019 by the LUMS Syed Ahsan Ali & Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) and the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). The event provided a timely...
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