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”
Cultivating research mindset and critical thinking among students is important, but does this require foregoing the necessary academic routine of “teaching a course, administering tests, and grading students”?
Two recent studies under government auspices have confirmed the warnings given by Education Watch.
Curriculum and textbook renewal is not and should not be something that has to start from scratch.
Economists and policymakers, influenced by economists, tend to look at education as a homogeneous and highly aggregated category.
The populist remedies for youth and educated unemployment will not work without a coherent and coordinated plan from the government.
Throughout 2022, education authorities focused on returning to a “normal” routine, making minimal adjustments mostly in organising public examinations.
Is there a pattern of incompetence, inefficiency, lack of accountability, and impunity among the education personnel and institutions in this country?
A 200-page notebook that cost Tk 40 four months ago now costs Tk 50
To ignore the special role of a teacher in society is to place the future of the nation at peril.
Biden’s “inflection point” applies to Bangladesh, too.
