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”
The opening words of an education blog posted under the auspices of UNESCO Global Education Monitoring report concludes that the
It is hardly a run of the mill event when nine of the most highly populated countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan) get together to discuss the challenges of achieving the goal of Education for All.
That the Sundarbans, the unique world heritage site and a lifesaver for the coastal people, is in grave danger, with or without the planned Rampal coal-based power plant is not in dispute.
Those who have done well in the higher secondary exam results on Thursday (August 18, 2016) have earned the right to show their exuberance as depicted in the media.
The Holey Artisan Café victims in Dhaka were killed by the young assailants apparently because they were foreigners or non-Muslims though three Bangladeshi Muslims were also not spared. The attackers were particularly brutal towards the women victims.
The ill-advised decision taken in 2009 to subject children to a high-stake public examination at the end of class 5 is to continue. The
The Tk. 49,000 crore or US$ 6.3 billion allocated for education, when divided by the estimated 40 million students in the country, amounts to Tk. 12,000 per student public spending for a year or about US$ 150 on average for all levels of education.
On May 19, The Daily Star headline announced, "From now on, primary education in the country will be up to class-VIII". The decision had been taken and made public by the Minister of Education, Nurul Islam Nahid.
On average, a teacher handles 50 students, when it should be no more than 30. Can it be denied that much more should be spent on primary education and at other stages of education?
How important is it to have an overall law for the education system and what can it do to solve the many problems in ensuring the management and quality of the system?
