Masum Billah We are to prepare our learners to face the challenges of the 21st model of passively learning facts and reciting them out of context is no longer sufficient to prepare them to survive in today’s world.
Category: Columns
The Dollar and the debt ceiling
– Barry Eichengreen Berkeley – The dollar is the world’s go-to currency. But for how much longer? Will the dollar’s status as the only true global currency be irreparably damaged by the battle in the US Congress over raising the…
UNSCR implementation procedure in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has been complying with the requirements of the UNSCR since the inception of FIU in Bangladesh Bank through issuance of Circular Letter to the Reporting Organizations but with the changes of FATF recommendations in February, 2012, especially through the…
Two hydrogen and one oxygen don’t make water!
True to its name, New Society Publishers are surely into the business of spreading ‘good’. Else, it won’t have been as eager in getting ‘Small Stories, Big Changes’ across to this reviewer. Fourteen ordinary folks narrate their unique ‘inner’ journeys…
Of corruption in the education sector
Masum Billah Corruption prevails in every strata of the society. It has engulfed every aspect of government, non-government office and institution. But the corruption in education proves seriously sensitive as corruption in this sector directly affects all the machineries of…
Political Islam and the elections in Bangladesh
Frances Harrison
Fostering social ecosystems to support societal needs
by Zheng Ying Chong zhengying.chong@csr-asia.com
Angela Merkel’s return to Europe
– Jean Pisani-Ferry
Asian CEOs on sustainability
by Clelia Daniel
It is time to move over!
Some 40 per cent of the world’s population survives on less than $2 a day and yet mankind’s ecological footprint is 50 per cent larger than global ecosystems can accommodate. Clearly, few have ‘more’ whereas a sizable number continues to…
Using performance skills in the classroom
Masum Billah
America’s Labor Market by the Numbers
– Mohamed A. El-Erian
Weak states, poor countries
– Angus Deaton
A lifeline for humanity: Truth and nonviolence
Robert J. Burrowes
What is not in a name?
A rose by any other name would undoubtedly smell the same. Any attempt at equating it with humans is unlikely to work, therefore when it comes to us ‘name’ does matter – an ‘identity’ for existence and even beyond. Imagine,…
Making language teaching more communicative
Masum Billah
Is Europe out of the woods?
– Barry Eichengreen
Death will not be our end…
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma
The changing development order
– Viswanathan Shankar
Emerging markets’ Euro Nemesis
– Daniel Gros
Admission to higher educational institutions
Masum Billah
The post-crisis global economy in three words
– Jean Pisani-Ferry
Who pays when everything is for free!
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma
Coal-fired power plant threatens World’s largest mangrove forest
Mostafa Kamal Majumder
Lehman’s morbid legacy
– Mohamed A. El-Erian
How far JU teachers’ demonstration justified ?
Jahangir Nagar University, the only fully-fledged residential university stresses its campus on the beautiful lap of nature decorated with lakes, green foliage of trees and little hills and with seasonal guest birds. The pupils prefer this university not only for…
Bollywood baddies: In praise of the necessary evil
Villains on celluloid (and in real life) are necessary evils without whom ‘hero’ doesn’t get the credit of being termed ‘good’. From Sukhilal to Gabbar and from Dr Dang to Mogambo, the rustic and suave variants of villains have enthralled…
