Why student evaluation in the new curriculum is most challenging
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
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How much you can pay decides what education your child gets
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.
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How do we deal with Covid-induced school dropout?
The new Education Watch study provides new insights on how to recover the education sector from the pandemic's impact.
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Are schools up to the task?
What can schools and the education system do to help the next generation grow up with a moral compass?
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Transforming education: Five tasks
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).
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Textbooks, curriculum and the politics of education
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.
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Education needs resolute leadership of new ministers
The education that a child can acquire is currently a matter of how much his/her family can pay.
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Could 2024 mark the end of crony economy and captive politics?
Politics has been captured by the nexus of an oligopoly of business interests and the willingly colluding political class.
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April 25, 2023
Are there any lessons for Bangladesh in Ashoka Mody's ‘India Is Broken’?
Both countries have had a single-minded focus on GDP growth, with not enough attention to jobs, climate, the distribution effects and the destructive impact of crony capitalism.
April 10, 2023
Is research university an oxymoron?
Cultivating research mindset and critical thinking among students is important, but does this require foregoing the necessary academic routine of “teaching a course, administering tests, and grading students”?
March 26, 2023
Protecting a generation in danger
Two recent studies under government auspices have confirmed the warnings given by Education Watch.
February 12, 2023
The textbook debate: Managing the politics
Curriculum and textbook renewal is not and should not be something that has to start from scratch.
February 11, 2023
Education and growth: Are we asking the right questions?
Economists and policymakers, influenced by economists, tend to look at education as a homogeneous and highly aggregated category.
January 13, 2023
Graduate unemployment: Who's to blame?
The populist remedies for youth and educated unemployment will not work without a coherent and coordinated plan from the government.
December 28, 2022
‘New year, new curriculum’ cannot transform our school education
Throughout 2022, education authorities focused on returning to a “normal” routine, making minimal adjustments mostly in organising public examinations.
November 16, 2022
A rudderless education policy is leading us astray
Is there a pattern of incompetence, inefficiency, lack of accountability, and impunity among the education personnel and institutions in this country?
November 2, 2022
Inflation is yet another blow to education recovery
A 200-page notebook that cost Tk 40 four months ago now costs Tk 50
October 5, 2022
Can teachers be the pivot of change in education?
To ignore the special role of a teacher in society is to place the future of the nation at peril.
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