Abstract
The last few decades have left significant and lasting imprints on the education system in Pakistan. Highly individualistic, self-centered and competitive corporate approaches on the economic fronts influenced the working and ethics of the education sector too. During 1980s and 1990s, we witnessed the education policy makers, educational administrators, and parents breathlessly advocating the merits of competition in educational pursuits. The rat-race to achieve ascendancy, preferably number one position at any cost led to spread of several ills in our education system, of which use of unfair means in examinations, bribing invigilators and examiners, preference for rote-learning, and demotivation of academically weak students are only few to mention here. Sometimes, in the first half of 1990s, educationists and policymakers started taking stock of what was happening to the education system in the name of competition and quality
Javed Iqbal . (2008) Potential of Mixed Ability Groups in Educational Institutions, The Dialogue, Volume 3, Issue 1.
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