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The trouble with unauthorised schools
Mursalin Kabir, a child of only 11 years, attended three admission tests in the first two weeks of January. After completing his Primary School Completion exam from a primary level kindergarten school
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QiPileaks claims it leaked question papers
The rise of the nefarious whistleblowing group QiPileaks has the country of Bangladesh both alarmed and happy.
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Financing tertiary education
Every year, after the university admission tests, we find students who score well, but cannot afford their educational expenses, and eventually drop out. Private banks, on the other hand, offer many lucrative loan products for their customers, including education loans.
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The government's got your tongue
Years of majoritarian Bangla education means that certain minority communities only speak their mother-tongue, and neither read nor write.
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When a teacher's finger exposes our hunger for power
On July 29, 2017, there was a protest event organised by some student organisations at the University of Dhaka. They argued that a senate meeting was being held without student representatives.
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Are the students collateral damage?
We are accustomed to students protesting to postpone their exam dates. This time, however, students of seven government colleges took to the streets demanding the announcement of exam dates and timely publishing of their results.
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The school across the river
Every time the weather takes a turn for the worse, school-going children in the haor are among the first to be affected.
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VAT on English-medium schools - A discriminatory proposal?
Discrimination. This is the word being tossed around to describe the recent decision to institute a VAT of 15 percent on English-medium schools.
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Curing The Fear of English
A classroom of grade six with sixty three students crammed into a classroom which can accommodate hardly forty people.
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The Long Awaited Law
The most recent national education policy of Bangladesh was enacted in 2010. Since 1971 till date, four education commission
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Listen to them!
"This is my last time, God knows what happened, but I am not at all tensed for it. As there is no assurance about equal opportunity for
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A Day of Science
When was the last time anyone went to a science fair? Hardly anyone can remember. But, most people certainly have a knack for science.
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Bangladesh Beats India in Education
“Beating India in education? In mathematics? I cannot believe it!” said Professor Mohammad Kaykobad, one of Bangladesh's most distinguished scientists, and member of the Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee after Bangladesh beat India at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 2015.
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A Right or a Commodity?
Sumaya Sarah has enrolled in an MBA programme in a private university. The tuition fee of the one-year-long MBA programme costs 300,000 takas. Sumaya, the daughter of a retired government officer does not want to impose this burden of tuition fee on her
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CAUGHT IN THE COLLEGE CONUNDRUM
Azman Rahman passed his Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination this year with 80 percent marks in all subjects. Instead of being overjoyed with his astounding academic performance, which is popularly known as the golden A+, Azman and his parents are passing days with great anxiety.
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BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN GENDER AND RELIGION
Gender discrimination has been a prevailing problem for years now in South East Asia and is an issue, for which many people use religion as an excuse.
