We must step back from the precipice
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
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When a quick buck reigns supreme
The cloud of dystopia thickens as public perception connects the dotted line between pervasive corruption, greed, inefficiency and ineptitude.
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Can the latest school census data help curb dropout?
We cannot continue to keep primary and secondary education in discrete boxes and try to plan and manage these separately.
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Education budget: A futile debate achieving little
The new budget can be described as a “crisis response”
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We need a universal school education programme
Two observations are pertinent here. Primary education up to class VIII as a compulsory and universal stage of education is a 50-year-old idea broached first in 1974 Qudrat-e-Khuda Commission report and reiterated in Education Policy 2010.
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Why student evaluation in the new curriculum is most challenging
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) has proposed a new evaluation method for secondary and higher secondary students that will require students to sit for five hours of testing for each subject: four hours of “practical” group work and an hour of “theoretical” written test. Three s
3m ago
How much you can pay decides what education your child gets
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.
3m ago
How do we deal with Covid-induced school dropout?
The new Education Watch study provides new insights on how to recover the education sector from the pandemic's impact.
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August 4, 2024
We must step back from the precipice
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
July 24, 2024
When a quick buck reigns supreme
The cloud of dystopia thickens as public perception connects the dotted line between pervasive corruption, greed, inefficiency and ineptitude.
July 1, 2024
Can the latest school census data help curb dropout?
We cannot continue to keep primary and secondary education in discrete boxes and try to plan and manage these separately.
June 11, 2024
Education budget: A futile debate achieving little
The new budget can be described as a “crisis response”
May 26, 2024
We need a universal school education programme
Two observations are pertinent here. Primary education up to class VIII as a compulsory and universal stage of education is a 50-year-old idea broached first in 1974 Qudrat-e-Khuda Commission report and reiterated in Education Policy 2010.
May 8, 2024
Why student evaluation in the new curriculum is most challenging
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) has proposed a new evaluation method for secondary and higher secondary students that will require students to sit for five hours of testing for each subject: four hours of “practical” group work and an hour of “theoretical” written test. Three s
April 17, 2024
How much you can pay decides what education your child gets
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.
March 31, 2024
How do we deal with Covid-induced school dropout?
The new Education Watch study provides new insights on how to recover the education sector from the pandemic's impact.
March 17, 2024
Are schools up to the task?
What can schools and the education system do to help the next generation grow up with a moral compass?
February 28, 2024
Transforming education: Five tasks
Which five tasks should be on top of the list of someone appointed as the education tsar of Bangladesh? The question was posed by Dr. Binayak Sen, Director General of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies in a public discussion about this writer’s recent book Ekush Shotoke Bangladesh -- Shikkhar Rupantor (Bangladesh in the 21st Century – Transformation of Education, published by Prothoma).
Dr Muhammad Yunus has agreed to take the role of chief advisor of the interim government
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