Setting Up Direction & Policy for Education Sector in Pakistan
by: Ahmed Abdulazeem
PREAMBLE
Pakistan is currently at a pass – a difficult and unpleasant situation, desperately in need of concerted assistance from all quarters to help it sail on its path to the success. This situation opens opportunities for every person to play an active role in this cause by upholding honesty, morality and responsibility.
Success needs direction and policy. Once direction is set, policy is developed, procedures are designed, and implementation follows that paves the way for ultimate success. Every aspect of life needs success; therefore, setting up direction and policy becomes crucially the first step.
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach in Law and Legal Education
It need not be emphasized that there is hardly any walk of life or branch of knowledge that does not impact law and legal that does not impact law and legal education and vice-versa. The era in which law was taught as an isolated discipline is long gone. So legal education, if taken seriously, is a confluence of all branches of knowledge. Teaching and learning law with economic, political, historical philosophical life science, technological and other such perspectives and reading them through legal perspective is one of the greatest challenges that universities in general and law universities and department in particular need to meet in earnest.
For example, learning how to write a patent requires law students to learn various nuances of science and technology, while a basic understanding of architecture is requisite for providing of architecture is requisite for providing legal advice to the construction industry. Beside, the current global financial crisis is a clear illustration as to how a law student need to understand not only law but also banking systems, fundamentals of financing, accounting project designing and much more.