Are our schools inherently designed to fail?
That the majority of young Bangladeshis are not earning a secondary education qualification, and a large gap exists in children's education opportunities between primary and…
Manzoor Ahmed
Can we bridge the generational gap and reform Bangladesh’s democracy?
A realistic aim may be to forge a common understanding of the rules of the game regarding dialogue and, as much as possible, to reconcile the diverging visions by agreeing on a…
Has Awami League delivered on its promise of quality education for all?
The writer says that as long as education policymaking and decision-making is ad hoc and fragmented, with fleeting attention given to only parts of the system, the reform is…
The problem is not with coaching centres or ChatGPT
Identifying private tutoring, coaching centres and guidebooks as the source of education quality problems leads to treating the symptoms without looking at the root of the disease.
Can teachers be the pivot of change in education?
Most of South Asia has poorly functioning schools, lack of resources for the numbers and quality of the teachers needed, and the political dynamics that failed to generate the…
Democracy on life support
Reversing the authoritarian trends and mindset that have sunk roots in the political culture cannot happen overnight.
The playbook of student politics needs an overhaul
The writer says the "student politics" we see today in institutions as appendages of political parties is a distorted and destructive version of what it is meant to be.