Road to Prosperity - Presentation and White Paper

Around 2 years back, I wrote this lengthy blog, detailing how we can put our country on road to prosperity. The blog was more like a brain dump, and might be interesting if you want to understand the thought process. Since then, I've refined the ideas, put them together in the form of a white paper, and made a presentation on it. Moreover, I've tailored the numbers for PTI's provincial govt, but the vision is generic in nature and can be adapted by different regional and national level governments.

I am sharing both documents at the following locations. Kindly take a look and leave your feedback on the Google docs or in the comments section below. Will be much appreciated.

Road to Prosperity - Presentation
Road to Prosperity - White Paper

Recommendations for Higher Education Policy in KPK

PTI has kicked off skill development program and knowledge city projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa per its manifesto. However, IMHO, these approaches will not provide a long term solution for the dire lack of skilled workforce in the province. The reasons being that:

- While gaining some technical skill is important to make a living, it is not enough to compete with the world, and its important to acquire deeper knowledge - and likewise, build a stronger knowledge base. 

- Building Knowledge City (KC) is a good initiative, but the limitation will be that the people of far flung areas will find it prohibitively expensive to afford the boarding and lodging costs - in addition to the tuition fees for KC universities. 

Also, we cannot wait for primary and secondary education problems to be solved before starting work on higher education. We need to work in parallel on higher education, have a long-term plan in place, and start executing on it.

We need a wholistic, comprehensive, long term policy for taking higher education forward - and help us reach where we want to be in a reasonable time frame. And, I was unable to find one on KPK Govt official pages, on Higher Education Department Pages and on PTI website (insaf.pk).

In order to fill in this gap, I've put together a draft of recommendations for taking higher education forward. Feel free to comment on it and let us know what can be done better. Here is the link for the document:  

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UKLAK96gv-ac3nmp6ZV739zwjXeM2rcbN4FQn_g33GE/edit