Shakib's final over: A hero’s farewell or a quiet exit?
Shakib has been at the heart of our national pride. He also has been someone who has hurt our feelings.
1d ago
We must protect doctors from violence
Violence against doctors is an issue that is neither unique to our country nor recent.
1w ago
Mass wedding in academia: A new kind of ‘taboo-breaking’
An institutionalised mass wedding will replace one form of social regulation with another.
2w ago
Our migrant workers in UAE: Bound by borders, freed by conscience
The Washington Post recently speculated that Dr Yunus’s soft power may have indirectly influenced the UAE's decision to grant clemency.
3w ago
When teachers become targets: Lessons from Emperor Alamgir
How do you process the nationwide humiliation of teachers?
4w ago
The triumphs and challenges of a generation in flux
The students are once again at the forefront by reaching out to the victims of the flood that has inundated the country’s eastern region.
1m ago
Universities must prepare for the transition of students
While talking to our students, it was obvious that many of them are experiencing severe stress.
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The power of education in ‘Bangla Bashanta'
Identity and ideology politics also played an essential role in brewing the Bangla Bashanta.
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February 21, 2021
The hidden politics behind writing Bangla in Roman script
In academia, the status of English is often contested in the Bangladeshi context. Is it a second language or a foreign language? There should not be any such question about our first language, our mother tongue in our everyday life. Bangla is our number one language.
February 20, 2021
Dhaka’s paradoxical delights
Dhaka is growing right before our eyes. Every day it is birthing new projects.
February 13, 2021
Toxic spirit and sensationalism
Five students of a private university went to a restaurant at Uttara to get a drink.
February 6, 2021
Learning unlearning and relearning
Growing up in the 80s, one of the silliest things we used to do was to play loud music in our cassette decks.
January 23, 2021
E-learning: A boon or a bane?
In our Viber group, a departmental colleague shared an excerpt from a student’s exam script. The student wrote down the title of Jhumpa Lahiri’s book “The Interpreter of Maladies” as “The Translator of Disease”.
January 16, 2021
Consuming facts without flavours
A national newspaper ran a story on January 10 featuring the research expenditure of public and private universities of Bangladesh.
January 10, 2021
‘A tumultuous and triumphal homecoming’
On January 17, 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was featured on the cover of Time magazine.
January 2, 2021
Reimagining the future of education
Getting the news of vaccine was a figurative shot in the arm for the human race plagued by an ever-evolving crown-shaped virus.
December 26, 2020
World Rankings and Indexes: Like Ducks to Water
Ever since a London based agency Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) partnered with Times Higher Education to measure “academic excellence” against a host of quality indicators at the beginning of the millennium, universities all over the world have been attracted to the idea like ducks to water.
December 19, 2020
On shared and contested histories
National Professor Rafiqul Islam, speaking at a virtual event organised by ULAB in remembrance of the martyred intellectuals, mentioned that the job of writing the history of the Liberation War should have been given to the universities from the start and not to the politicians.
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