Author: Dr. Alex Ezat Parnia

Every year, tens of thousands of Bangladeshi families make one of the most consequential financial decisions of their lives, and they make it based on an assumption almost nobody questions anymore. To give a child access to a genuinely international education, that child has to leave. The numbers behind that assumption are becoming difficult to look at honestly. Legally remitted funds for foreign education surged from $218 million in FY20 to $730.6 million in just the first ten months of FY26 alone, approaching the billion-dollar mark for the entire year. That figure now roughly matches the combined annual state budgetary…