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”
Schools re-opened on September 12 last year on a limited basis after 542 days of closure.
A sadly familiar playbook has been on display once again at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Students have been on “fast-unto-death” in front of the vice-chancellor’s residence.
On September 12, 2021, schools in Bangladesh reopened after 18 months of Covid-19 closure—partially, with restrictions.
It has been a season of reviewing and reminiscing about the past 50 years since independence and projecting into the future with expectation and hope.
The proverbial ostrich buries its head in the sand in the face of danger, assuming that if it cannot see the hazard, the hazard does not exist or will disappear.
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has doubled down on its insistence not only to continue the nationwide Primary Education Completion Examination (PECE) at the end of Grade 5, but giving it a permanent institutional form by proposing the establishment of an examination board to conduct it.
The elections held in the US in the first week of November this year had state and local representatives, including two governors, mayors and school board members, up for selection.
We all can recall from our student days one or more teachers who touched our lives in a special way. They inspired us to aspire higher and served as our role models.
Examinees of PECE, SSC and HSC will attend in-person classes every day while the rest of the students will go to school once a week after schools and colleges reopen on September 12, Education Minister Dipu Moni announced on September 5. The SSC and HSC exams are planned to be held in November and December, respectively.
On the occasion of International Literacy Day, proclaimed by the United Nations in 1966, there will be pronouncements with much fanfare about the vital role of literacy in national development and the progress that has been made.
