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There is an old assumption that knowledge lives in long careers. Stay somewhere for twenty years, the thinking goes, and depth will follow. Gen Z has looked at that bargain and politely declined. They move gig to gig, hustle to hustle, and...

Learning is no longer limited to educational institutions in this rapidly expanding job market; instead, people have to keep pace with technology in order to understand and use it better. To survive in this competitive age and increase thei...

The world's technological instruments are changing; AI tools are reshaping creative work in Bangladesh as well. Now designers can create images faster, and creative writers use AI to brainstorm plots and edit drafts. If you work in the desi...

Throughout the country, parents are selling their property, gold ornaments or savings bonds to send their sons and daughters abroad as students, often on the recommendation of an education consultancy firm and without proper knowledge of th...

When Bangladesh discusses educational inequality, the conversation almost always begins with money. We debate tuition fees, stipends, free textbooks, and the rising cost of private tutoring, assuming that financial hardship is the primary b...

We walked into that campus certain of things we can't fully reconstruct now. Ask any of us what we thought we'd be doing by thirty and there's a pause first. Something half-embarrassed, a foreign correspondent, a scientist with a real lab,...

Bangladesh's future rests on its youths. More than a third of the population is under 25, and how well this generation is educated and equipped will decide whether the country's much-discussed demographic dividend turns into real jobs, new...

Something is shifting in the ambitions of Bangladeshi youths. Over the past 15 years, the number of Bangladeshi students pursuing higher education abroad has tripled, and according to the Open Doors Report, the number enrolled in US institu...