Manzoor Ahmed

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.

The education that a child can acquire is currently a matter of how much his/her family can pay.

Politics has been captured by the nexus of an oligopoly of business interests and the willingly colluding political class.

In 2008, the party promised to achieve ambitious goals. So, what have we achieved after over a decade?

The HSC milestone is more a source of anxiety and premonition for the large majority of young people.

We may be witnessing a deja vu with the new curriculum.

It needs to recognise both the challenges and the opportunities.

The credibility and significance of literacy rates become questionable when seen in the light of primary education outcomes and the character of the literacy projects undertaken so far.

The debate about control of education has become more intense across the globe, manifesting in varying ways in different historical and socio-political contexts.

To what extent do the top scorers’ performance represent the performance of their schools and teachers?

Teachers have been carrying out sit-ins in front of the National Press Club and being subjected to coercion by police to restrain them.

Our education decision-makers have a narrative that largely denies any serious deficiency in the system.

The new budget has not displayed cognisance of the need for post-pandemic recovery and remedial actions.

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.