Information, advice, articles and guidance for students in Pakistan. Pupils of all age groups can find useful information about education industry in the country. The Academia Students page will enable educatees in schools, colleges and universities across Pakistan to get valuable information about developments in the education sector, besides having interesting articles that help students of all ages make the most of their life in educational institutes. If you want to know some good reasons why you should be playing sports during your student days, we have an article ready just for you. Do you want to know what the HEC is up to these days? This page will tell you exactly that. The page is a one stop solution for pupils wanting to stay up to date with the educational environment in the country.
Berlin is considered the ideal place to be an entrepreneur in Germany. The city has a thriving startup culture and welcomes innovative ideas with open arms. But against many successful entrepreneurs in Berlin, there are hundreds of stories of failure that go around. In order to make entrepreneurial matters clearer for any of our readers who wish to do their own thing in Berlin or even Pakistan, The Academia Magazine talked to Michael Katzman. Katzman works with investment banks and also trains entrepreneurial students for corporate recruiting and startups.
Once Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to his success and wealth, to which he replied that he read 500 pages on a daily basis. This is the magic of reading books, they open doors to an imaginative world, build a connection of the fictitious realms with everyday realities and possess the power to melt your heart and evoke emotions. Books are the best guide, motivator, influencer and friend; the one that can change your perspectives and outlooks towards life and can help you to delve deeper into the mundane affairs of life, love, relationships, death and self-identity.
Educators, academicians and researchers are now much more aware of the problems and difficulties faced by children with special needs and endorse the utilization of technology to support and assist them. Special education needs can refer to the individual requirements of children with learning difficulties and disabilities, including verbal, cognitive, sensory, developmental and neuropsychological handicaps. Special children require additional assistance from teachers and parents in order to perform well in academic settings and new educational trends for special children are emerging across the first world.
Bullying in educational institutes is a concerning issues in almost every country of the world, but unfortunately the malaise receives little or no attention in Pakistan. With the increasing decline of parental interference in schools, bullying in educational institutions of Pakistan has increased significantly in the last five years. In order to know the consequences of bullying in Pakistan we discuss the basic understanding of what bullying is, its reasons, types, legality and above all, the measures Pakistani students can take to avoid bullying at educational institutes.
What Is Bullying?
Disparity of social or physical supremacy distinguishes bullying from normal conflict. All over the world, bullying is a notorious act, where people repeatedly or habitually use physical strength to inflict physical or emotional harm to or threat others. This perceived or real power imbalance due to various reasons empowers some people to harass or threat others both physically and verbally, which is resultantly called bullying. Both who bully and are bullied by others may have serious physiological problems in the long-run and may need additional care and attention to break free of the harmful effects of bullying, whichever end of this social disease they are.
Reasons Of Bullying:
Per a latest report, Pakistan takes 22nd place in a list of 25 countries studied for a research on the rate of bullying. There are numerous reasons researchers consider the root cause for a person or a group of individuals bullying others. These include race, religion, social class, sexual positioning, appearance, physical or mental strength, size or aptitude, social conducts, gender, body type, character, and in many cases social reputation.
Types Of Bullying
Researchers have been studying this abnormal behavior of humans for years and find that bullying can be diverse in nature, which is why bullying has been categories in the following ways:
Physical Bullying
Cyber Bullying
Prejudicial Bullying
Sexual Bullying
Verbal Bullying
Social Bullying
Relational Aggression
Common Types of Bullies in Pakistan:
Bullying Victims
Group Bullies
Indifferent Bullies
Popular Bullies
Relational Bullies
Serial Bullies
How Pakistani Students Can Deal With Bullying & Bullies:
In the diverse cultural ethnicity of Pakistani society, bullies come in many types, groups, shapes and dimensions. Most of the Pakistani students have had to deal with a bully or a group of bullies as child or as an adult. Recent reports reveal that one in four children in Pakistan have faced bullying at least once at some point during their academic life.
It is the responsibility of government, educational institutes and civil society to spread awareness about how students can deal with bullies.
But as there is a serious dearth of the same, here are some tips students of every age can use to counter bullying at educational institutes
Strive With High Self-Esteem
High self-esteem is the key coping with adversity. It not only stops the cycle of bullying but also helps you see the positivity in worse situations.
In order to deal keep your sanity and self-esteem intact, follow these simple rules of thumb:
Do not show that you feel hurt
Walk away with dignity as if you do not care
There is always safety in numbers, try to walk with friends
Don’t argue with bullies
Laugh off the bully’s antics
Intensify Your Strengths:
In many cases bullies feel comfortable preying on targets who they perceive as weak. So developing a counter-combat impression can help discourage them. To become a deterrent for bullies:
Gain combat or defensive skills
Walk with a confident stride
Keep your head held high
Remain aware of your surroundings
Stop the cycle of bullying:
Many bullies use a mixture of different strategies to emotionally, verbally and even physically abuse you. Despite whatever the type they are using, try to understand the approach and things that trigger them. Stopping the cycle is very important if you want to avoid this behavior of bullies.
Find the ways they use to bully you
Instantly complain to the authorities
Do not be embarrassed to talk about the situation
Gain help or help others who are in the same situation
Ask people to join you in your fight
Bullying in Pakistan is a serious issue, but it can be solved or at least can be reduced if our government, educational institutes, teachers and religious scholars play a healthy role to teach students about it.
Also Pakistani media, along with social media activists, should step up efforts to highlight this social ill and launch regular public awareness campaigns on bullying in schools, colleges and universities.
A person bullied always feels he or she is the only one who is being bullied. In fact there are thousands of others in Pakistan as well as around the world that face this hardship each day.
Staying strong and not letting someone’s mental ill-health affect you is the key.
We really hope that this article helped you a little in coping with bullying. Maybe it will help others as well if you share it with your friends. We would love you to give us feedback in the comment section.
A PhD is a postgraduate doctoral degree that is awarded to students who complete an original thesis offering a significant new contribution to knowledge in a particular subject. These qualifications are offered for all subjects and are considered the highest level of academic degree a person can achieve. In a conversation with Academia Magazine, Matiullah Tareen, a PhD scholar from Balochistan, Pakistan shared his views to outline how PhD in Germany should be approached by Pakistani students. He is one of the few students funded by a joint venture between HEC and DAAD through a scholarship titled ‘Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan’.
Travelling to a foreign country for studies can be a stressful affair, especially if you do not prepare well for the journey and your stay in the foreign land. To help you get up to speed with preparing for this crucial foray into an unknown world, our correspondent in Germany details the things that Pakistani students travelling abroad you need to focus on while they plan their departure for a foreign country.
Commonly, the term ‘mental health’ is misinterpreted as most of us use it as the substitute world for mental illness. In a nutshell, mental health refers to psychological and emotional well-being that affects how an individual feels, performs and thinks. Mental health also refers to the mental potential of an individual that he or she needs to cope with the usual stresses of day to day life, without affecting their general behavior.
Chances that you’ve been continuing with education at school non-stop since a very young age are high, so it is no surprise if you suddenly feel a bit fed up.
MIT makes record seventh appearance at the top of the list, British heavyweights retain top 10 spots despite Brexit uncertainties
US universities continued their domination in the world of global higher education by not only taking the top honours, but also 11 of the top 20 positions in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2019.
