COMMENTS

“VAT on private universities” (June 15, 2015)

Mahmud Rafi
They can only do that when they have enough public universities to accommodate all the students. For now, it's a bad decision.

“The delusion of Bangladesh's cheap labour” (June 13, 2015)

Waziuddin Chowdhury
As Dr. Akbar Ali Khan on Channel-I's 'Tritiyo Matra' programme noted three days back, “You cannot be a middle-income country without a labour pool that has either a decent education or some vocational skills.”

Both of these tracks are in short supply and require investment that the government has not prioritised in its newly issued budget. Scarier still is that the days of being a 'bottom -feeder' may be cut short too with the newly emerging Myanmar's RMG industry. The priority should be on lesser number of births and spending available resources to provide these young unemployed people with some life skills.

Zaman Khan
Nowadays to board a flight or to begin any carrier, we need to go to the respective website to get all the information needed, and we need to know English to be able to do that. The way our scholars and government is pushing for Bangla in all sectors including roadside signboards, your dream shall remain a dream.

Rafiq Islam
I disagree with Mr. Zaman Khan. Germany is the prime example where they don't care much about English, but they have an amazing, successful model as a nation. Same goes for Japan. I think our main issue is overpopulation. If we can control that in the next 25 years, many of these issues will either ease or completely disappear.