It goes without saying that education is indispensable for the prosperity of a nation and is critical for its mental, social, cultural, moral, economic and political development. The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines education as a “discipline that is concerned with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and informal means of socialization.” If …

Exam anxiety is a phenomenon that is experienced by almost every student. After my article entitled ‘How to Ace Psychological Assessment,’ published in November issue of JWT, I received a number of emails from individuals preparing for the written exam as to how to deal with exam anxiety. The feelings of having butterflies in the stomach, nervousness, excessive worry, forgetting …

It goes without saying that taking the CSS Exam is an extremely arduous task. Given all the difficulties the candidates face, they might wonder why they are further grilled through psychological assessment. But, conducting psychological assessment of the would-be officers seems imperative because the civil servants should possess the talent, skills and aptitude befitting to their job, as they have …

‘Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.’ These words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a renowned French aristocrat, struck my mind when I saw the heart-wrenching images of brutally-murdered Gaza children. In today’s world, where abuse or misuse of an animal may …