BANGLADESH’S economy rests, still, on two pillars planted in an earlier era: low-cost apparel exports and remittances from migrant labourers. Both are under existential pressure. Automation reshapes global manufacturing. Artificial intelligence begins to displace the kind of routine processing work that millions of Bangladeshi workers abroad perform. Meanwhile...
The Finnish government on Thursday proposed that a test covering knowledge of Finnish society would be required for gaining citizenship, as the country continues to tighten its immigration policy...
EDUCATION has always been the pillar of national development; nevertheless, in the twenty first century its function has metamorphosed from simply passing knowledge from teacher to student. In a fast-changing global environment where technological progress, scientific discovery and complex social problems play a significant role, education needs to be updated...
ON A humid Dhaka morning, development can sometimes feel like paperwork—projects, logframes, missions and memos. Yet, the most consequential shift now unfolding is quieter. The next chapter may be defined not by how much assistance it receives, but by how much knowledge it generates and shares. This is not a slogan for conferences. It reflects a changing...
Sweden said Monday it planned to tighten rules to acquire citizenship, introducing ‘honest living’ and financial requirements, a language and general knowledge test and raising the residency requirement from five to eight years...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhtar at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday said that Manikganj was a centre of sufi and dervishes’ knowledge pursuit...
Vice-chancellor of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology Professor Mahmud Abdul Matin Bhuiyan at a programme at CUET in Chattogram on Thursday said that to find new knowledge, one must take the help of research...
Vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan at a programme on Sunday urged the students to acquire knowledge of different disciplines to build themselves as skilled workforce...
Saraswati Puja, worshiping the Goddess of knowledge, music, art and culture, will be celebrated across the country on Monday amid much enthusiasm, festivity and religious fervour...
AS A country of demographic dividend, Bangladesh needs and has the scope to develop a pool of technologically sound house resources which can meet the demand of today’s knowledge economies at home and abroad. So, it is necessary to bring about certain changes in education, making a higher use of technology...