We need to change our mindset and up our game to improve our universities’ standing.
Central to the formation of the panel is the objective of minimising political interference in the selection of top university managers.
Central to the JnU crisis is a list of broken promises.
It’s easy to dismiss Dhaka as an unliveable city. The challenge is to replace that tantrum with the determination to make the city better.
It will be a crime to miss the post-uprising zeitgeist and not to overhaul our educational sector.
KUET has exposed systemic weakness in conflict resolution.
To bring back confidence, the rule of law must be established.
In the urban spaces across Bangladesh, we need to adopt a model of human-non-human relations that is both practical and moral.
Are the apparitions of political sectarianism making a reappearance in Bangladesh?
There are lessons to be learnt from the way Dhaka became part of the intellectual map of the world.
We laugh, but deep down, there is a hidden admiration and approval for such deception. Is there any connection between our folkloric fascination with trickery and our public endorsement of such behaviour by our leaders?
Disenchanted students are now demanding the creation of a “Dhaka Central University” comprising the seven colleges.
These martyred students achieved more in the years that they lived than many of us would do in decades.
For the cynics, the absence of any Bangladeshi university among the top 800 institutions recently ranked by Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THEWUR) 2025 is unacceptable.
"The 2024 uprising as an opportunity to return to the original desires of the deprived and persecuted masses of 1971."
Shakib has been at the heart of our national pride. He also has been someone who has hurt our feelings.
Violence against doctors is an issue that is neither unique to our country nor recent.
