Boxing Out Education

The past decade has marked several reforms to the current education system of Bangladesh. There exists mixed reviews about what we could have done, but there is no debate about the fact that we have c... Read More

Where Education Reaches You!

Apurba Mahboob

Have you ever imagined how it would feel like if you did not have to go to school in monsoon? Or, how would it feel like if you don’t have to go to school at all to receive education? Instead of you... Read More

Increasing BRAC’s value creation at the secondary school level in Bangladesh

maria

Guest post by Manik Kumar Saha and Iffat Khan (Young Professionals, Batch 4) Thanks to the gains made over the past 40 years in primary education, secondary school is increasingly an urgent area of pr... Read More

Innovation in progress: creating access to internal information

maria

Thanks to Rudaba apa for alerting us to an innovation in progress in the Post-primary basic and continuing education (PACE) project of the BRAC Education Programme. In discussions with staff, it wa... Read More

Guess who’s thinking about innovation

maria

“Throughout my careers in software and philanthropy—and in each of my annual letters—a recurring theme has been that innovation is the key to improving the world. When innovators work on urg... Read More

Re-cap of the Innovation Forum on Bridge Academy

maria

On December 1, the BRAC Social Innovation Lab organized its second Innovation Forum. The question: would a for-profit private school model from Kenya work in Bangladesh? Asif Saleh presented some ob... Read More

Universal primary school attainment requires attention to teachers, not just students

sameena

Primary education in Bangladesh and worldwide is facing an emerging threat in human resources—there is an urgent need for more than 8 million more teachers globally. The UN estimates that this loo... Read More