How is a traditional teacher going to compete with the audiovisual stimulation today’s children receive from digital devices? And how to create a learning experience that technology alone can never provide?

Recently, Education Minister Ehsanul Haque Milon told the parliament that 60,295 teaching posts are currently vacant in about 26,000 MPO-listed (government grant-receiving) secondary schools and colleges in the country.

Weak outcomes in literacy, maths despite enrolment gains

The absence of "quality" formal schooling is a major root of many of our problems. I vividly remember that I never experienced a joyful school life, neither in primary nor in secondary school. It was largely mechanical, passive, unpleasant, and lacking good teachers, adequate resources, proper infrastructure, and meaningful engagement.

The curriculum continues to reward regurgitation over reflection.

It’s time to fix the root causes of the learning crisis in schools

What kind of education shall we offer the next generation?

Bangladesh’s education system is failing to produce skilled human resources for industries, leading to rising unemployment among educated youth while industries struggle to find qualified workers, according to economist Selim Jahan.

Disparities in the country’s educational system have widened over the years and more social conflict lies ahead if the gap is not reduced, renowned economist Prof Rehman Sobhan has said.

Hate campaign against two teachers deeply troubling

Implementation of new school curriculum limps along even after one and a half years

One and a half years after it was launched, implementation of the new curriculum at schools is still in a shambles as the authorities are yet to finalise a method of evaluating the students.

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams will be divided into two parts -- written and activity-based -- under the new curriculum

The choice to prolong the SSC examination period appears to diverge from global educational trends.

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.

Over the years, engineering programmes in Bangladeshi universities have stagnated, still clinging to a 20th-century structure.

If embraced by students, it has the potential to revolutionise their learning experience.

There are many challenges to successfully implementing this new curriculum in Bangladesh.

The education that a child can acquire is currently a matter of how much his/her family can pay.

It needs to recognise both the challenges and the opportunities.