Chhayanaut at 60: In remembrance
I am profoundly grateful to the institution which helped me evolve both as a music lover and as a human being.
2m ago
The need for a clear research agenda
It goes beyond providing research funding and serves as a guiding framework, enabling the institutions to align research goals with broader national and global priorities.
5m ago
Why students are unsatisfied with Bangladeshi higher education
Does student satisfaction matter?
8m ago
A call for leadership training
Teaching-learning is tethered sadly to lectures and rote learning where students engage in little analysis, synthesis or application.
9m ago
Dhaka University’s research predicament
Lack of understanding of how to nurture research in our universities is not only disquieting, it portends serious difficulties for the growth of our higher education system.
10m ago
What’s in a girls’ toilet at a rural school?
There was a likelihood of infection if the rags were not clean. Now, they get a pad free of cost from the school.
12m ago
What makes a great university?
A great university inspires and prepares students for a rich and fulfilling experience in a changing and challenging world.
1y ago
What is a good university administration?
Efficient and effective management of a university’s major resources is typically considered the major roles of the administrators.
1y ago
December 21, 2019
Academia’s global standing: The research imperative
Recently an M Phil student, studying service management of hospital patients, emailed: “Sir, I am doing descriptive type of cross-sectional study and I am not testing any hypothesis.
September 19, 2019
Listening to Student Voices
Academic programmes across the world are becoming increasingly innovative, competitive and challenging. They are responding to changing times. There is also the realisation that, built in the right spirit, universities can generate enormous social capital and rich economic dividends.
June 13, 2019
Teaching load: The missing link in higher education quality
Ask faculty members in the country’s universities what would motivate them to devote more time to research and you will hear one common answer: decrease present course loads and class sizes. Both factors continue to weigh heavily on their daily toil and pursuit of excellence.
April 26, 2019
Why we must build specialised research universities
“It is most difficult to get people on the path to research and publication. That culture, that appetite, that scholarly commitment has eroded considerably. [They] LOVE the microphone, they HATE the pen.”
April 4, 2019
Return on research: Academia's new challenge
Discussions about research in Bangladesh's higher education institutions (HEIs) have become animated and contentious in recent times.
February 16, 2019
Future readiness of Bangladesh's higher education institutions
The Daily Star's February 3rd issue carries a story on page 5 about the acute teacher shortage at Khulna Medical College.
December 9, 2018
Leading by inspiration
The nation is now in the grips of another approaching election. A flickering hope among many is for an inspirational leadership that energises, enthuses, and leads competently, and with good intentions to touch the lives of the people of Bangladesh.
April 16, 2018
Whither law enforcers?
Once again, a headline in The Daily Star grated: “Fifth-grader 'raped' by headmaster.” Another headline literally stung: “RMG worker gang-raped in moving bus.” Violence against women continues inexorably and with inexplicable regularity, reflecting the unconscionable disregard and disrespect that is held today for the helpless victims. Where does such abjectness come from? Is there something in the male ethos,
March 9, 2018
The widening scourge of sexual harassment
Violence against and violation of women result from “some of the worst forms of discrimination” that continue unabated in a variety of ways: mistreatment, harassment, lewd stares, groping, maiming, raping, and even murdering. With choices that matter to women in their hands, men seem to have been endowed with an arcane sense of entitlement to do as they wish with the lives of women.
January 14, 2018
How NRBs can help boost research
Winter is a great time for the replenishment of academia in Bangladesh when many Non-Resident Bangladeshi (NRB) academics alight on our shores for both personal and professional reasons.
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