Bangladesh education in 2025: a system-wide year of disruption
A year-end reporting case study connecting teacher protests, textbook delays, examination results, budget choices and university developments across Bangladesh's education system.
What the reporting set out to establish
What did a year of disputes and policy reversals reveal about the governance of Bangladesh's education system?
How the story was reported
Rather than treating each protest, examination result or policy change as a separate episode, the report assembled them into a system-wide chronology. It combined field accounts from families, national teacher-action figures, examination outcomes, budget data and expert interviews across primary, secondary and higher education.
Key evidence used
- A nationwide primary-teacher strike affected all 65,567 government primary schools and about one crore students during the year.
- The HSC pass rate fell to 58.83 percent, while the SSC pass rate reached a 16-year low.
- Primary-education allocation fell by more than Tk 3,000 crore in FY2025-26, while the overall education budget was reported at 1.72 percent of GDP.
What this adds
The value of the year-end view is cumulative. It allows classroom disruption, teacher conditions, learning results and public spending to be considered together rather than as unrelated news events.
This is a portfolio case study, not a replacement publication of the original article. It adds reporting context and evidence notes while preserving a direct link to The Daily Star version.