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E-Governance in Local Government: Bridging the Gaps to 2030

September 17, 2026September 24, 2026 editor No Comments

On 31 August, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh organised a significant discussion titled “E-Governance in Local Government Institutions: Current State and the Way Forward.” The analysis and recommendations presented by the panelists show that Bangladesh has already gained positive momentum on its path toward digital transformation, and that the time has come to…

Law & Local Governance

Beyond the Bookshelf: Why Bangladesh’s Online Library Ambitions Depend on Infrastructure, Not Just Intent

September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 editor No Comments

A recent piece in The Oniket Bulletin by Rimsha Seethe, titled “Building Readers, Not Just Test Takers,” makes a case that deserves wider attention: Bangladesh has the community organizations, the political will and increasingly the digital tools needed to build a reading culture, yet lacks the deliberate policy architecture to connect them into a funded,…

Education

The Behavioral and Cultural Limitations Stopping Bangladeshi Youth from Growing a Reading Habit

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 editor No Comments

Reading for pleasure has been quietly disappearing from the daily lives of young people in Bangladesh. While literacy rates have improved an access to information has expanded, the habit of reading books, especially outside the classroom, has weakened considerably. Understanding why this is happening requires looking closely at both behavioral tendencies and deep-rooted cultural attitudes…

Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

A Republic That Honours the Dead: Rethinking Bangladesh’s Culture of National Recognition

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh does not lack a framework for honouring its heroes. On paper, the country maintains a tiered structure of civilian and military recognition: the Swadhinata Padak at the top, the Ekushey Padak just below it, and a set of wartime gallantry awards, Bir Sreshtho, Bir Uttom, Bir Bikrom, and Bir Protik, modelled on the honour…

Politics, Democracy & Citizen Rights

China-Bangladesh Vocational Training Collaboration: Prospects and Caveats

September 3, 2026September 4, 2026 editor No Comments

The memorandum of understanding signed between Bangladesh and China on August 27 to establish a joint vocational education, training, and research centre carries both promise and peril in equal measure. The agreement, formalised at the China Bangladesh Education Exchange Conference in Jiangxi province, envisages cooperation across vocational training programmes, bilingual teaching materials, industry education integration,…

Education

Journalism in Bangladesh: A Chosen Smart Profession or a Path Driven Only by Passion?

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 editor No Comments

Ask a young graduate in Dhaka why they entered journalism, and the answer rarely mentions salary security or career prestige. It is almost always framed as calling, a desire to speak truth to power, to give voice to the voiceless. That framing captures something real about Bangladeshi journalism, but it also conceals an uncomfortable truth:…

Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

English Medium Schools in Bangladesh: A Story That Only Scratches the Surface

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

A recent article in the Oniket Bulletin presents English medium education in Bangladesh as a largely successful stream that simply needs better coordination with national institutions. It cites internationally recognized curricula, strong O Level and A Level results, growing presence in multinational companies, and admission to leading global universities as evidence of achievement, while treating…

Education

Bangladesh’s Young Workforce: Demoralized, and Underdelivering in Skill and Creative Industries

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

Across Bangladesh’s advertising agencies, software firms, design studios, and media houses, employers increasingly describe a similar frustration. Fresh graduates arrive with degrees, sometimes strong academic transcripts, yet struggle to originate ideas, sustain long projects, or take ownership of ambiguous problems. The gap is not intelligence. It is preparation. Many young professionals were trained to answer…

Humanity, Social Welfare, Human Rights & Happiness

Education at the Oniket Bulletin: A Critical Review of 23 Articles, 16 Weeks

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

A critical read of the Education section’s last sixteen weeks yields an uneven verdict. The editorial board has pulled together a genuinely broad thematic range across the 23 published pieces, and a number of individual contributions demonstrate real intellectual gravity. Yet the commissioning pattern also exposes silences that a steadier editorial hand ought to close….

Education

Review of 16 weeks Media and Digital Dissemination Articles in the Oniket Bulletin

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

The Oniket Bulletin has, over the past sixteen weeks, assembled a substantial body of twenty-four articles under its Media, Publishing and Digital Dissemination category, offering what amounts to one of the more ambitious single outlet surveys of Bangladesh’s media policy landscape in recent memory. This report critically evaluates the commissioning choices, thematic coverage, factual depth,…

Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination