The simple fact is that not all teachers and students have the empathy to accommodate people with different abilities.

The irony is, the top bureaucrats, who fail to secure our national interests, have no qualms in claiming the larger share of the development pie for themselves.

The stories come alive when you walk in the city and meet the faces that form the mass.

The oldest private university in Bangladesh is giving its oldest public university a run for its money.

The academic rank diagram needs to look like a pyramid where few professors are located at the apex.

What prompted those devoted pilgrims in Panchagarh to ride an overcrowded boat and join a death march on the Korotoa River?

Five hundred deaths a month. Is that natural?

There is nothing wrong with such a strategy of recruiting media operatives. However, the open nature of the search robs the ploy of its X-factor and thereby self-sabotages its purpose.

The private universities are doing just fine without the presence of partisan politics.

Our universities were mostly designed as teaching universities. Even many of our iconic professors are not good researchers.

Suicide is a complex issue that requires institutionalised, therapeutic interventions to save lives, and stand by those who need support for their mental health condition.

Tea is a sector that requires time and patience. The problem with our new entrepreneurs is that they all want instant yields.

The recent results in Zimbabwe have shown that Bangladesh did not do any homework on their young opponents.

One of the first 'culprits' of energy leakage identified during the first week of the government’s austerity drive was air conditioners.

Dhaka University student Mohiuddin Roni has been staging a remarkable protest ever since he fell victim to the irregularities of Bangladesh Railway.

The recent spate of attacks on teachers by individual students or certain groups make many of us revisit the very notion of respect for teachers.

One of my favourite films, Love Actually (2003), begins with the narrative voice of “the British prime minister” (Hugh Grant) saying, “Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport.

The allocation for education in the proposed budget for FY2022-23 leaves a lot to be desired.

The creator of the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling, is probably the richest author in the world, with an estimated net worth of USD 1 billion. In one estimate, Rowling made USD 181 per minute or USD 4.37 per word in 2016-17.

While the better private universities have realigned their focuses on creating a "whole" education with a 360-degree perspective, the public system has reached the nadir from which students have a tunnel vision of becoming government cadres.