Manzoor Ahmed

Economists and policymakers, influenced by economists, tend to look at education as a homogeneous and highly aggregated category.

The populist remedies for youth and educated unemployment will not work without a coherent and coordinated plan from the government.

Throughout 2022, education authorities focused on returning to a “normal” routine, making minimal adjustments mostly in organising public examinations.

Is there a pattern of incompetence, inefficiency, lack of accountability, and impunity among the education personnel and institutions in this country?

A 200-page notebook that cost Tk 40 four months ago now costs Tk 50

To ignore the special role of a teacher in society is to place the future of the nation at peril.

Biden’s “inflection point” applies to Bangladesh, too.

The important issue that must be discussed is whether school education should continue to be another commodity subject to the vagaries of the market.

The political division regarding how to deal with the attack on the US Capitol Building does not augur well for democracy in the US. What does this tell us about the fate of democracy in the world?

The National Education Policy 2010 anticipated a comprehensive education law that would bring together existing laws and regulations under an umbrella to facilitate implementation of the policy.

Educators and concerned citizens have been urging a major increase in public allocation for the education sector.

Educators in these columns have been asking for recovery and remedial actions to overcome the pandemic-induced learning losses that threaten a generational learning disaster.

French sociologist Emile Durkheim described social cohesion as organic solidarity arising from peoples’ dependence on each other in a modern society.

The tragedy of two innocent by-standers’ lives squandered, hundreds injured, shops damaged and burnt, and business worth crores of taka during the

The Annual Primary School Census (APSC) 2021 shows that enrolment in primary schools came down in 2021 from the previous year by almost 1.5 million, while the number of teachers decreased by over 83,000.

It hardly needs saying that the towering personality of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed left its indelible mark on Brac’s vision, mission and programmes in all the areas of development in which the organisation has been engaged.

The United Nations has called it the “longest disruption to education in history” worldwide. In Bangladesh, schools remained closed non-stop for 543 days from March 17, 2020 to September 11, 2021.

Schools re-opened on September 12 last year on a limited basis after 542 days of closure.

A sadly familiar playbook has been on display once again at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Students have been on “fast-unto-death” in front of the vice-chancellor’s residence.

On September 12, 2021, schools in Bangladesh reopened after 18 months of Covid-19 closure—partially, with restrictions.