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Ideas that move the debate

PCE's voice in national and international debate. Expert essays, opinion pieces, and features on where Pakistan's education system stands and where it must go.

Beyond our own reports, PCE's people write for the platforms that shape how education is understood. This is the argument made in public.

PCE's voice in national and international debate. Expert essays, opinion pieces, and features on where Pakistan's education system stands and where it must go.

Beyond our own reports, PCE's people write for the platforms that shape how education is understood. This is the argument made in public.

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Strengthening Civil Society Engagement in the Global Partnership for Education

How civil society can shape the GPE from the inside.

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The education conversation Pakistan needed.

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Stories the statistics miss.

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Youth & Education Reform in Pakistan

Opinion published in the Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Studies (PIPS) Research Digest, August 2025. Authored by Zehra Arshad (National Coordinator, PCE) and Urwa Naeem (Program Coordinator - Research & Advocacy, PCE). On the role of young people in driving education reform in Pakistan.

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Actors in Alignment: System Transformation and Deep Articulations in Education

Published by the Brookings Institution in February 2025. Co-authored by Urwa Naeem (Program Coordinator - Research & Advocacy, PCE). How meaningful, durable change is built across the interlocking layers of an education system.

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The Unheard Population: Centering Youth Voices for Education Systems Transformation

Published by the Brookings Institution in February 2025. Co-authored by Urwa Naeem (Program Coordinator - Research & Advocacy, PCE). Why systems transformation stalls when it leaves out the people it serves.

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Elevating Youth Voice and Skills-Based Education Frameworks in Pakistan's National Policies

SAQE's work within the Network for Education Systems Transformation (NEST), featured on the Knowing Doing Network, documented with Kaneez Zehra (National Coordinator, PCE) and Urwa Naeem (Program Coordinator - Research & Advocacy, PCE). How PCE brought youth voice and skills-based frameworks into Pakistan's national policy conversations.

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Empowering Education Pakistan: Promoting Girls' Inclusion

Published by Education Out Loud, Global Partnership for Education. Co-authored by Zehra Arshad (National Coordinator, PCE). A feature on how PCE's collaborative work is driving impactful change in education advocacy, particularly in gender-responsive budgeting, in Pakistan.

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Let's Talk Education: How an Urdu Podcast Changed the Debate on Education in Pakistan

Featured by Education Out Loud, Global Partnership for Education. The story of how PCE's podcast reshaped the national conversation during lockdown.

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Op-ed

From Rhetoric to Real Learning

Zehra Arshad (National Coordinator, PCE) in The News International discussing how curricular reforms must expand the breadth of skills imparted to learners

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Op-ed

Underfinanced and Overly Challenged

Zehra Arshad (National Coordinator, PCE) in The News International. Pakistan's chronic underinvestment in education, and the financing gap behind the crisis.

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Bridging the Gap

Zehra Arshad (National Coordinator, PCE), in The News International. The distance between Pakistan's education commitments and its classrooms.

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