Safe water for everyone?
[:en]In 2015, the global community adopted 17 Global Goals, also called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aimed at ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, and combating climate change.[:]
TOWARDS SDGS: Promoting transparency
Published in The Daily Star on Thursday, 27 February 2017 Iftekharuzzaman The government of Bangladesh recognises combating corruption as critical to progress towards realising the Perspective Plan - Vision 2021, the 7th [...]
Communalising textbooks – How others may look at us
[:en]The opening words of an education blog posted under the auspices of UNESCO Global Education Monitoring report concludes that the new version of textbooks from grade one to grade ten display a deliberate move to give the content a religious if not communal slant. (See Global Education Blog, 8 February, 2017).[:]
Reaching Education 2030: Can the 7th Five-Year Plan lay the ground?
Published in The Independent on Saturday, 31 December 2016 Manzoor Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, BRAC University Vice-Chair, CAMPE In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2030 with a pledge to “transform [...]
EDUCATION 2030: Challenges for financing
[:en]Published in New Age on Tuesday, 26 July 2016 Md. Mostafizur Rahaman The agenda of Sustainable Development Goals as a whole entail transformation in global development, including reforms in global financial [...]
ALLOCATION FOR EDUCATION: Still lagging behind
[:en]Published in New Age on Thursday, 16 June 2016 Md. Mostafizur Rahaman The allocation for education, about 2.4 per cent of the gross domestic product, as proposed in the national budget for the [...]