An education commission, chosen with care, can advise the interim government and serve the nation by identifying key areas that need reforms.
A ban on campus politics seems to be an easy answer. But what does it mean and how will it work?
The interim government has to decide guidelines for the minimum reform targets to achieve, and where to begin.
Students should have the right to have a role in managing the education and co-curricular activities of their institutions
If the ruling party leaders don’t understand or pretend not to understand why students are not staying back at home (their campuses and dormitories remain shuttered), we are in much deeper trouble than one could imagine
The cloud of dystopia thickens as public perception connects the dotted line between pervasive corruption, greed, inefficiency and ineptitude.
We cannot continue to keep primary and secondary education in discrete boxes and try to plan and manage these separately.
The new budget can be described as a “crisis response”
After three decades since the primary education pledge was made, the cost of a child’s education remains a heavy burden for some 80 lakh households.
The new Education Watch study provides new insights on how to recover the education sector from the pandemic's impact.
What can schools and the education system do to help the next generation grow up with a moral compass?
Which five tasks should be on top of the list of someone appointed as the education tsar of Bangladesh? The question was posed by Dr. Binayak Sen, Director General of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies in a public discussion about this writer’s recent book Ekush Shotoke Bangladesh -- Shikkhar Rupantor (Bangladesh in the 21st Century – Transformation of Education, published by Prothoma).
The new round of curricular reform and textbook re-writing has given rise to a spate of debate, pointing to different kinds of problems with the new initiative.
The education that a child can acquire is currently a matter of how much his/her family can pay.
Politics has been captured by the nexus of an oligopoly of business interests and the willingly colluding political class.
In 2008, the party promised to achieve ambitious goals. So, what have we achieved after over a decade?
The HSC milestone is more a source of anxiety and premonition for the large majority of young people.
We may be witnessing a deja vu with the new curriculum.
