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  • Erratum to: Defining and measuring literacy: facing the reality 

    Ahmed, Manzoor (© 2011 International Review of Education, 2011-08)
  • Defining and measuring literacy: facing the reality 

    Ahmed, Manzoor (© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011-08)
    Increasing recognition of a broadened concept of literacy challenges policy-makers and practitioners to re-define literacy operationally, develop and apply appropriate methods of assessing literacy and consider and act ...
  • The education system 

    Ahmed, Manzoor (© 2016 Taylor and Francis Inc., 2016-01)
    In the past decade, Bangladesh has achieved significant social and economic progress. Despite high population density, a limited natural-resource base, underdeveloped infrastructure, frequent natural disasters and political ...
  • Squaring the circle: EFA in the post-2015 global agenda 

    Ahmed, Manzoor (© 2014 Elsevier Ltd., 2014-11)
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education for All (EFA) initiative have influenced educational development in poor countries both positively and negatively. From the perspective of Bangladesh, international ...
  • Lifelong learning in a learning society: are community learning centres the vehicle? 

    Ahmed, Manzoor (© 2014 Brill, 2014)
    This chapter provides a historical perspective on the evolving concepts of lifelong learning and the learning society and makes the case for the community learning centre as a potential institutional vehicle for the promotion ...