Education

NCTB’s horrible practical education framework

What's wrong with our approach to practical education?
6 October 2022

Taorem Sananu wins the Thesis of the Year Golden Award at ARCASIA

ARCASIA intends to unite architects in this region and provide them with a platform to maintain professional networks.
4 October 2022

Can English medium students get into public universities? Yes!

The struggle for English medium students is high when trying to get into public universities.
29 September 2022

What schools can do to support students’ mental health

It is high time schools started supporting students going through emotional distress.
29 September 2022

Teachers and their obsession with respect

Perhaps it is a point of pride for teachers that their students revere, or even fear, them.
26 September 2022

How the dollar crisis is increasing burden for int'l students

The shortage of dollars has made it enormously expensive to buy the currency for int'l students.
15 September 2022

The strange failings of admission tests

The problems are systemic, and thus changes need to be made to the system.
15 September 2022

To the groupmates who disappear in the middle of assignments

Certain teammates will mysteriously disappear into thin air whenever their work is due.
10 September 2022

How YouTube became a teacher to a sceptic like me

My predominant scepticism comes from how YouTube works.
4 September 2022

Nurture students, don’t torture them

We are shocked and saddened by the death of an eighth grader in Narsingdi, who died by suicide after her teacher harassed her for wearing trousers with her school uniform.
2 September 2022

Will academic concessions lead to more trouble for O/A level students?

Academic concessions may backfire for students in the long run.
1 September 2022

We should be more empathetic towards O/A Level students this year

We should be mindful of how circumstances were different this year.
18 August 2022

Why the mismatch between what we study and what we do?

There is no serious study on the kind of jobs that are out there and the kind of degrees or training that we are providing in our academic institutions.
6 August 2022

The academic advantages of pessimism

Pessimism can be a positive quality after all.
14 July 2022

University student still haunted by general knowledge he memorised

Psychologists have coined a new term to explain this: “Post-GK Stress Disorder”.
14 July 2022

Too many BBA graduates?

We must ask ourselves if this path truly benefits the students, or only the institutions.
7 July 2022

Engineering student finds passion in everything that isn’t engineering

Engineering student finds everything other than his major fascinating.
3 July 2022

How to trick your brain into studying

Four ways you can trick your brain into studying. 
27 June 2022

Education system in Bangladesh needs to change

In Bangladesh, although primary education is free and the government provides the textbooks, more than 4.3 million children aged 6-15 years are not in school.
23 June 2022

Should national curriculum teachers rethink how they guide college students?

Teaching methods currently are often too reliant on test papers as teaching material.
23 June 2022