Articles

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Recurring subjects

Each follows one of the three lenses the pilot study is built around, so the editorial and the research stay on the same axis.

01 Skills mismatch Roughly 700,000 graduates enter Bangladesh’s job market each year against about 300,000 viable formal roles, and what that gap does to how students read the point of a degree. Job-oriented mindset
02 The memorisation trap SSC and HSC exams still reward textbook repetition over comprehension. What that costs in independent thought, and what a competency-based curriculum would have to change on the ground. Innovation & critical thinking
03 Education and money For many families a degree is a financial instrument first, a ticket exchanged for a stable job. What gets lost when employment becomes education’s only measure of success. Perceptions of education