THE commercialisation of education, carried out by global corporations is the practice of disrupting the teaching and learning process in schools from kindergarten to universities by introducing advertising and other commercial activities in order to increase profit.

After the orchestration of the Higher Education Commission, the education sector’s scenario was changed dramatically and many private institutions came into being. In the face of lack of proper institutions and universities, many businessmen took this vacuum as their opportunity and started opening private universities and institutions for making a massive profit in the garb of educationists. Their utmost agenda is not the propagation of better education and serve their country but to swallow up the potential market which is quite lucrative for them.

Many students due to lack of money can’t enter a good institution. With the exception of a few, almost every second institution is just fulfilling its formality of giving education to its students as it neither has qualified management nor dedicated faculty.

This element is destroying the career of many students as they neither have thorough knowledge of their subjects nor do they have the attributes and vigour required by the employers and the market opportunities.

As a result, only graduates of a few renowned institutions are getting appropriate positions who are maintaining the standards of education and dissertations while others are just peering around for seeking better jobs.

ANUM RAZI Lahore