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Date: 21 March 2017

LUMS-VC-CIR-06-17

Announcement of the 5th School at LUMS:

The School of Education

Through this notification it is being announced that the Lahore University of Management Sciences
(LUMS) has announced the establishment of a School of Education following the approval of the Board
of Trustees. The School of Education joins as the fifth school at LUMS, a vibrant campus with schools of
Business, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Engineering, and Law, already in place.

The exploratory phase for a LUMS School of Education was initiated in October 2015, with funding from
the Babar Ali Foundation and the objective of enabling LUMS to intervene as a thought leader and
change maker in a rapidly expanding educational milieu of Pakistan. The Planning Committee of the
project included LUMS Pro-Chancellor Syed Babar Ali, LUMS Management Committee member Osman
Khalid Waheed, and LUMS Vice Chancellor Dr. Sohail Naqvi, with Dr. Tahir Andrabi, Professor of
Economics at Pomona College, as Executive Director, and Dr. Mariam Chughtai, Doctorate in Education
from Harvard University, as Associate Director of the LUMS School of Education Project. Dr. Asim Ijaz
Khwaja, Professor of International Finance and Development at Harvard Kennedy School, and Dr. Faisal
Bari, Associate Professor of Economics at LUMS, were key advisors to the team.

The LUMS School of Education will operate at the crucial nexus of research, policy and practice,
supporting a faculty that is internationally competitive, connected, and relevant. The curriculum,
featuring extensive field engagement, will produce graduates capable of becoming strategic leaders,
policy researchers, and reflective practitioners, distinctly placed to direct and shape a reimagined and
vibrant education reform agenda for Pakistan.

Mahjabeen Ahmad
Assistant Manager
Office of the Vice Chancellor
LUMS