Manzoor Ahmed

Are policies and actions regarding preparing young people for work and livelihood influenced by myths and misperceptions about the problems and their workable solutions?

Now, the youngsters have embarked on a campaign to reach out to the people in preparation for forming a new political party.

Public and media discourse overwhelmingly favours the idea of a reform commission for education.

The education authorities under the interim government have decided to revert to the curriculum introduced in 2012.

The interim government must prioritise reforms to elections.

An education commission, chosen with care, can advise the interim government and serve the nation by identifying key areas that need reforms.

A ban on campus politics seems to be an easy answer. But what does it mean and how will it work?

The interim government has to decide guidelines for the minimum reform targets to achieve, and where to begin.

Students should have the right to have a role in managing the education and co-curricular activities of their institutions

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

The cloud of dystopia thickens as public perception connects the dotted line between pervasive corruption, greed, inefficiency and ineptitude.

We cannot continue to keep primary and secondary education in discrete boxes and try to plan and manage these separately.

The new budget can be described as a “crisis response”

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.

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

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.

The new Education Watch study provides new insights on how to recover the education sector from the pandemic's impact.

What can schools and the education system do to help the next generation grow up with a moral compass?

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).

The new round of curricular reform and textbook re-writing has given rise to a spate of debate, pointing to different kinds of problems with the new initiative.