The key changes needed in the education sector
The new norm for education should be people before profit, not the other way around.
2m ago
Ensure equity for girls in education
In many countries around the world, girls are not given access to the same educational opportunities as boys.
4m ago
Inequity in education is holding us back
We need to support children from poorer socio-economic backgrounds.
5m ago
How we teach matters
For a lesson to be effective, capturing and holding the interest of the audience is key
6m ago
Why would anyone want to become a teacher?
Teaching is one of the noblest things a person can choose to do with their life. But sadly, that’s not the narrative that exists today.
6m ago
How we assess education matters
The competition aspect of educational assessment is meant for students to be ranked against their own prior achievement, not against their classmates.
11m ago
Curriculum and textbooks as weapons
Does “simplifying” the curriculum really guarantee that children will not be able to pace themselves in higher studies?
12m ago
Ethics, happiness, and mental health for education
When a student is in a place of despair, on the brink of taking their own life, what does one do as a teacher?
1y ago
September 30, 2023
TVET and our skills ‘fetish’
There is an inherent bias in our thinking when we imagine the aspirations and career trajectories of students from different socio-economic backgrounds.
September 16, 2023
School choice: Celebrating, not eliminating, variety
We rarely think about the fact that individuals studying under different education streams may have different perceptions of what being educated means and may have different educational goals and aspirations.
August 31, 2023
Educating education: An academic's two cents on education reform
Today, students are still subjected to, more or less, the same so-called education that we or our seniors experienced.
April 27, 2021
Rethinking education under Covid-19: The LLMSC approach
As I write this, I am overrun with a rush of helplessness. I remember feeling the same way when I was preparing for a keynote presentation on the “Recovery of Covid-19 learning loss” that this writing stems from.
April 20, 2021
Critique, criticism and a new development indicator
I’ve always wanted to be a PhD student. I love reading and writing and a PhD is literally being facilitated—often with a full scholarship—to think, read and write.
January 2, 2021
Young people can change the system, but they need better guidance
“Won’t you change your birth year?” my class teacher had asked with a confused look. She was processing the paperwork for changed birth years in our class nine cohort, and amidst all the “new” 1992s and 1993s, I was one of the two “original” 1991s left.
June 23, 2020
Nobody’s children
June 12—World Day against Child Labour—wasn’t supposed to be just another Friday. It would have been the launch day of my first book, containing stories about street children.
June 9, 2020
For their childhoods
Growing up in a joint family had its perks. For example, there was hardly a chance to get bored. On the rare occasion I did get bored, I vividly remember my mother threatening to make me memorise my time-tables if I complained. It was a much dreaded punishment. It makes me wonder how the children are coping in this pandemic.
June 2, 2020
To go or not to go online?
As my students entered the exam hall, their faces were a tad bit more tense than usual. I was nervous myself. I would finally find out whether our efforts to make the course different had been a whopping failure.
May 13, 2020
What changes do we want in a post-pandemic Bangladesh?
”It’s going to be a long night,” I thought to myself as I pressed the redial button for the fourth time.
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