Thousands of vacant teaching and administrative positions across Bangladesh’s education sector remain unfilled due to thousands of lawsuits, education ninister Ehsanul Haque Milon told the Jatiya Sangsad on Wednesday.
Educationists and researchers on Wednesday urged the government to utilise the increased budget for education sector in the proposed national budget for 2026-2027 fiscal year properly...
THE government’s decision to assess the impact of the Family Card programme on beneficiaries’ living standards is a necessary step to ensure that a major public welfare initiative delivers its intended outcomes. Officials at a review meeting on June 15 said that surveys would be conducted to determine how far the cash transfer scheme has improved the health, education...
FOR years, national education policies have suffered from the absence of a coherent, long-term vision. The education minister’s recent comments indicate that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government is more inclined to go with the wind than to undertake the policy shift needed to address the sector’s structural challenges. While addressing a workshop on the...
THE Education Sector Analysis 2026, presented by UNICEF, lays bare a learning crisis that threatens to undermine the country’s development ambitions. The findings are particularly alarming because they reveal that increased access to education has not translated into meaningful learning outcomes. Only half of children aged 7–14 possess foundational reading...
THIS happened a decade ago. The chair of the department where I studied at the University of Dhaka in the early 1990s invited me, along with others, to an exchange of views on the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project, officially HEQEP but jokingly ‘hiccup’ even to many university teachers. The University Grants Commission project, which the World Bank funded, was meant to upgrade university teaching, research and institutional facilities...
Learning and resource crisis affects the education sector of Bangladesh, leaving graduates unprepared for new jobs and cost of education high, among other consequences.
Professor Shamim Ara Chowdhury took charge as new chairperson of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi on Wednesday.
The government on Thursday announced an expansionary national budget worth Tk 9.38 lakh crore for the 2006-27 financial year with an ambitious revenue target, putting aside hefty allocations for debt servicing, pay hike for government employees, and growing subsidy amid the global economic uncertainties.
Students seeking higher education abroad will be eligible for easy loans of up to Tk 10 lakh under a new government programme, finance minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury said while placing the proposed national budget for FY27 on Thursday.
The allocation to the education sector in the proposed national budget for the financial year 2026–27 has been increased to Tk 1,36,606 crore from Tk 87,206 crore -- by 56.65 per cent -- in FY2025–26.
Social welfare and women and children affairs minister AZM Zahid Hossain at a meeting in Dhaka on Wednesday said that the government’s goal was to develop people with disabilities into capable working individuals through education, skills training and rehabilitation...
AS THE country prepares for the national budget for the 2026–27 financial year, policy-makers face an urgent but often under-discussed challenge: the rising household cost of education. Education is widely celebrated as one major development success. School enrolment has increased significantly over a few decades, gender parity at the primary and...
The share of education as proportion of the gross domestic product in the forthcoming national budget for 2026–27 financial year is slated to be increased to 2 per cent amid concern over a proper utilisation of the allocation...
The education ministry has appointed new vice-chancellors to four public universities between Sunday night and Monday.
Prime minister Tarique Rahman on Sunday called for developing a skill and technology-based practical and job-oriented education system in the country instead of certificate-based education.
Politicians, academics and economists on Saturday at a discussion meeting in Dhaka on the upcoming budget called on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government to provide a sufficient allocation for the development budget in the health, education and agriculture sectors for the welfare of the people.
At least 62 per cent of university students in Bangladesh have called for increasing the education sector’s allocation to at least 5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product, according to a survey by the Education Rights Parliament.
Education minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon on Thursday said that the share of education in gross domestic product in the national budget for 2026–27 financial year will be increased to 2 per cent.
The Education and Primary and Mass Education Minister, ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon, said on Thursday that the share of education in the gross domestic product (GDP) within the national budget for the financial year 2026–27 will be increased to 2 per cent.
Education and primary and mass education minister ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon on Thursday said that sports are being included in the curriculum to develop children's sportsmanship...
Indian authorities have removed top education bosses from the exam board after marking failures in tests taken by nearly two million high school students sparked outrage and calls for protests...
THE advancement of women has for three decades reflected in various development indices, capturing the attention of the world. From increased female participation in education and their pivotal role in the apparel industry work force to a decline in the maternal mortality rate, their presence is booming in all tiers of governance, from local councils to the parliament...
IN BANGLADESH today, conversations about sexual violence are often pulled in two sharply different directions. On one side are voices calling for a return to stricter moral codes, emphasising abstinence, discouraging co-education, and placing tighter control on women’s movement and behaviour. On the other side are those who argue for sexual autonomy...
EDUCATION is the most powerful weapon for personal development and the development of the nation. It is the key to doors to knowledge, opportunity and social mobility. Yet in many developing countries such as Bangladesh, a widening gap between what students are taught in schools and what the job market requires is widening. This mismatch is now one of the...
The British Council has launched a global position paper urging countries to adopt language-responsive education systems that reflect learners’ linguistic realities and promote inclusive and effective education...
Education minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon and adviser to the prime minister Mahdi Amin joined a roundtable titled Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development on the sidelines of the Education World Forum 2026 in London in the United Kingdom on Tuesday.
The International Centre for Ocean Governance of Dhaka University organised a seminar titled Higher Education Opportunities in France at the Professor MA Latif Auditorium of DU geology department on Tuesday.
HIGHER education has historically shaped the intellectual, scientific and economic foundations of societies. From ancient centres of learning such as Nalanda and Al Azhar to the modern research universities of Europe and North America, universities have continuously evolved in response to changing social and economic realities. In the twenty-first century, however, the...
QOUMI madrassahs running outside any regulatory purview has raised some concern. The proposition prevents the government from ensuring the safety of the students of such institutions, their education and their mental and physical health. Besides, there is the problem of their integration into a productive work force. The concern becomes grave as the number...