Decisive action is needed to deliver on education pledges
19 February 2026, 00:51 AM
The overwhelming support of voters received by the BNP thrusts upon the new government a special responsibility and a challenge to meet people’s expectations.
19 February 2026, 00:51 AM
An education law – does it matter?
11 February 2026, 01:38 AM
The point is that complex and diverse education services operate under a variety of legal provisions, and their requirements can hardly be met by a single umbrella law.
11 February 2026, 01:38 AM
Faltering education is a national emergency, fix it now
25 January 2026, 00:13 AM
When the foundation of governance of the state is shaky, public services such as education and healthcare also become weak and tottering.
25 January 2026, 00:13 AM
After decades of failure, can we finally fix our education system?
22 January 2026, 01:09 AM
Arguably, the most consequential failure of political leadership in independent Bangladesh has been in the field of education.
22 January 2026, 01:09 AM
Education reform: Too little, too late under the interim regime
4 January 2026, 03:00 AM
The tenure of the interim government (IG) since August 2024 has not been particularly comforting for the country's education community.
4 January 2026, 03:00 AM
Are our schools inherently designed to fail?
1 December 2025, 02:00 AM
School management suffers due to the absence of a headmaster or an assistant headmaster's leadership
1 December 2025, 02:00 AM
Literacy in Bangladesh is still a distant dream
18 September 2025, 03:00 AM
The history of literacy in Bangladesh suggests a confusion about what literacy skills mean and how these are taught.
18 September 2025, 03:00 AM
Can decentralisation improve primary school outcomes in Bangladesh?
26 July 2025, 02:00 AM
Effective schools and learners through decentralised governance may make a difference in primary school education.
26 July 2025, 02:00 AM
Do our children have the right to education?
Does the Constitution of Bangladesh recognise education as a right? The plain answer is no.
18 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Keeping the promise to our children
Mariam, a bright nine-year old girl with dangling ponytails, sat in one of the middle rows in a class of about 50 students in a rural primary school.
31 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Children and Poverty
Protecting the rights of children and providing the essentials for their development must be part of the definition of poverty reduction.
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM
EACH CHILD TO A LOCAL SCHOOL
Each six-year-old child would be admitted to a neighbourhood primary school without being subjected to a qualifying test – this is how it should work because the country has a mandatory education law in place since 1990. But it hardly works this way.
14 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The 21st Century Teacher
Unlike many countries, Bangladesh does not have a pre-service teacher education programme, although school teaching is the single largest field of employment for college graduates.
4 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The challenges ahead
Heads of states or governments of the world will meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 25-27 to proclaim a new global agenda for sustainable development to be realised by 2030 (SDG 2030), replacing the Millennium Development Goals (MDG 2015), which was adopted 15 years ago at a UN Summit.
16 September 2015, 18:00 PM
PRIMARY EDUCATION: LEARNERS OR JUST TEST-TAKERS?
The primary education authorities – especially the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MoPME) – must be busily preparing for the Primary Education Completion Examination (PECE) or Shomaponi to be held in November.
18 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Paving the way to future?
In an article for The Daily Star, I had written:“A new National Education Policy was announced by the government in June 2010.
11 March 2015, 11:36 AM