Manzoor Ahmed

Dr Manzoor Ahmed is professor emeritus at Brac University, chair of Bangladesh ECD Network (BEN), adviser to CAMPE Council, and associate editor at the International Journal of Educational Development.

What does banning campus politics mean?

A ban on campus politics seems to be an easy answer. But what does it mean and how will it work?

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An education memorandum

The interim government has to decide guidelines for the minimum reform targets to achieve, and where to begin.

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The education mission for the interim government

Students should have the right to have a role in managing the education and co-curricular activities of their institutions

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We must step back from the precipice

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

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When a quick buck reigns supreme

The cloud of dystopia thickens as public perception connects the dotted line between pervasive corruption, greed, inefficiency and ineptitude.

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Can the latest school census data help curb dropout?

We cannot continue to keep primary and secondary education in discrete boxes and try to plan and manage these separately.

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Education budget: A futile debate achieving little

The new budget can be described as a “crisis response”

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We need a universal school education programme

Two observations are pertinent here. Primary education up to class VIII as a compulsory and universal stage of education is a 50-year-old idea broached first in 1974 Qudrat-e-Khuda Commission report and reiterated in Education Policy 2010.

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March 31, 2024
March 31, 2024

How do we deal with Covid-induced school dropout?

The new Education Watch study provides new insights on how to recover the education sector from the pandemic's impact.

March 17, 2024
March 17, 2024

Are schools up to the task?

What can schools and the education system do to help the next generation grow up with a moral compass?

February 28, 2024
February 28, 2024

Transforming education: Five tasks

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).

February 6, 2024
February 6, 2024

Textbooks, curriculum and the politics of education

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.

January 14, 2024
January 14, 2024

Education needs resolute leadership of new ministers

The education that a child can acquire is currently a matter of how much his/her family can pay.

January 1, 2024
January 1, 2024

Could 2024 mark the end of crony economy and captive politics?

Politics has been captured by the nexus of an oligopoly of business interests and the willingly colluding political class.

December 25, 2023
December 25, 2023

Has Awami League delivered on its promise of quality education for all?

In 2008, the party promised to achieve ambitious goals. So, what have we achieved after over a decade?

November 29, 2023
November 29, 2023

What the HSC results mean for our youngsters

The HSC milestone is more a source of anxiety and premonition for the large majority of young people.

November 6, 2023
November 6, 2023

New school curriculum: A great opportunity or a looming disaster?

We may be witnessing a deja vu with the new curriculum.

October 11, 2023
October 11, 2023

What may an education manifesto for 2024 look like?

It needs to recognise both the challenges and the opportunities.