NCC Bank observes Financial Literacy Week
NCC Bank celebrated Financial Literacy Week 2025 with the theme 鈥楾hink Before You Follow, Wise Money Tomorrow鈥�, which focused on integrating unbanked and marginalised people into the financial system...
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Financial literacy: towards inclusive growth
FINANCIAL literacy day was observed across the country for the third time on March 3 this year. In 2022, Bangladesh Bank issued a circular declaring the first Monday of March as this day to be observed annually. The same circular also introduced the financial literacy guidelines for banks and financial institutions, aimed at strengthening financial inclusion and expanding...
What is unpleasant in deeds is, too, unpleasant in words
SOMETHING that is unpleasant to hear is also unpleasant to happen. This is what the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner appears to have missed out on when on March 15 he requested journalists to use the phrase 鈥榬epression on women鈥� instead of the word 鈥榬ape鈥� in reports. The city police chief, who has attended as chief guest the inauguration...
Digital literacy, STEM training for young women urged
Experts on Tuesday emphasised introducing digital literacy and science, technology, engineering and mathematics training to equip young women for the job market...
How state actors can strengthen fact-checking?
IN THE ever-changing landscape of misinformation in South Asia, there has always been a debate about the state鈥檚 role in fact-checking. Can the state take on the role of fact-checker? If so, how can the state ensure that its fact-checking initiatives do not lead to censorship, especially in politically sensitive or controversial areas?..
Political literacy required more than ever
Bangladesh鈥檚 political landscape has been marked by a long-standing power struggle between two major parties, the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. This...
Focus should be on functional literacy, not only three Rs
THE literacy rate for people aged above seven years that the national statistical office has come up with every year for 19 years, from 2023 backward to 2005, shows a consistent increase, by small leaps though. Literacy rate is reported to have been 52.1 per cent in 2005 and it has increased to 77.9 per cent in 2023, keeping to official documents...
Prof Yunus terms education as main tool for building nation
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has highlighted the importance of both formal and non-formal education programmes to build an illiteracy-free Bangladesh...
Nat鈥檒 standard for literacy lags behind int鈥檒 standard
The Bangladesh standard for literacy set by the government lags behind the international standard and does not fit the needs of the country鈥檚 workforces in this fast-growing world, educationists and...