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No Business with Education!
In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans modest and gentle. A student who gets education from his family will never show pride; rather, he will be modest. So, there should not be any business with education. Education is a proper channel of becoming real human beings that all must remember.’’ I appreciate the nice words of our advisor, and side by side, I want to draw his kind attention to the fact that our education assumed a business shape many years back; it...
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No Business with Education!
In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans...
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I often find myself criticising governments worldwide for failing to create opportunities for poor people, especially in the education sector. We certainly should be...
Rate of Return of Education in Bangladesh: An investigation
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Recruiting Teachers Without Written Test: A Suicidal Decision
The continuous demeaning situation of education did not see the way to recruit deserving and real qualified teachers as teachers were employed in educational institutions by the local touts turned managing committee members who recruited teachers by virtue of their muscle and party power that made huge scope for them to illegally earn money by employing unqualified teachers, in...
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New Education Policy from 2013
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This Year’s HSC Results Tell Many Things About Our Educational Arena
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I Never Wanted to be an Educationist
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Recruiting Teachers Without Written Test: A Suicidal Decision
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Non-formal Primary Education Programme of BRAC: Scope, Growth, Achievements and Factors Contributing to its Success
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Of Banning Student and Teacher Politics
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This Year’s HSC Results Tell Many Things About Our Educational Arena
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Necessary Skills for a Secondary School English Teacher
The secondary level poses to be the most important tier of the education sector as it builds the foundation of other tiers. English stands as the most important subject at this level, which remains actually untreated in Bangladesh. Recently it has started receiving attention from the relevant corners in different forms. Language experts say an English teacher must have...
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Bangladeshi Vice-Chancellors Want the Status of MPs!
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Future of Business Studies in Private Varsities
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How far JU Teachers’ demonstration justified?
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Government College Teachers Seek Justice
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