Bangladesh’s education system is failing to produce skilled human resources for industries, leading to rising unemployment among educated youth while industries struggle to find qualified workers, according to economist Selim Jahan.
Disparities in the country’s educational system have widened over the years and more social conflict lies ahead if the gap is not reduced, renowned economist Prof Rehman Sobhan has said.
Hate campaign against two teachers deeply troubling
Implementation of new school curriculum limps along even after one and a half years
One and a half years after it was launched, implementation of the new curriculum at schools is still in a shambles as the authorities are yet to finalise a method of evaluating the students.
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams will be divided into two parts -- written and activity-based -- under the new curriculum
The choice to prolong the SSC examination period appears to diverge from global educational trends.
After three decades since the primary education pledge was made, the cost of a child’s education remains a heavy burden for some 80 lakh households.
Over the years, engineering programmes in Bangladeshi universities have stagnated, still clinging to a 20th-century structure.
There are many challenges to successfully implementing this new curriculum in Bangladesh.
The education that a child can acquire is currently a matter of how much his/her family can pay.
It needs to recognise both the challenges and the opportunities.
AI and edtech can be helpful for our students in an inclusive manner when the plans and programmes in this respect recognise the basic and long-standing weaknesses in the system.
Two recent studies under government auspices have confirmed the warnings given by Education Watch.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board has been stuck in the loop of controversies centring on school textbooks with academics and some NCTB officials blaming it on the negligence of writers and editors, insufficient training and lack of serious punishment for blunders.
Bangladesh cannot ignore the changes brought about by the fourth industrial revolution.
In Bangladesh, although primary education is free and the government provides the textbooks, more than 4.3 million children aged 6-15 years are not in school.
