MNM Niaz Asadullah

1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · M Niaz Asadullah

   Before AI in education, make sure children can learn and reason (opens the original)

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   Bangladesh’s education debate has recently taken an unexpected but welcome turn. As governments everywhere announce artificial intelligence initiatives, Education Minister A.N.M. Ehsanul Hoque Milon has argued for something less fashionable but more fundamental: children must first acquire strong reading, reasoning and verification skills if they are to use AI safely and effectively. The minister made this case at Unesco’s Digital Learning Week 2026 in Paris, where more than 25 ministers and des

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2. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · M Niaz Asadullah

   Our universities face a crisis bigger than graduate employability (opens the original)

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   During my inaugural public lecture of the Education Reform Initiative (ERI) last month, I argued that the education system was failing to convert years of schooling into learning, skills, employment, and productivity—a broken chain that remains central to our graduate unemployment crisis. An exchange during the same event, however, pointed to another, less visible failure. Professor Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, finance and planning adviser to the prime minister, argued that many universities have e

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3. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · M Niaz Asadullah

   We must never forget what led to the July mass uprising (opens the original)

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   Nearly three years ago, on January 6, 2024, I wrote in this newspaper that it would take “something of a miracle” for Bangladesh’s economy to continue thriving under democratic autocracy without a major social and economic collapse by 2025. Seven months later, on August 5, 2024, Sheikh Hasina’s government collapsed, sooner than I had expected and not in the form I had anticipated. My warning was not a prediction of revolution. It was a diagnosis of an increasingly unsustainable political-economi

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