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If we look at NCTB from two decades ago until today, there is no room to appreciate it. Every year, heaps of allegations, complaints, problems, and corruption of various types and forms appear instead. This year, the NCTB is providing low quality books. When we studied in school, we saw the papers and books were of excellent quality and looked good. Then, the Physics, Chemistry and Biology books were different from grade nine, whose price was minimal so far as I remember, one taka fifty paisa or seventy-five paisa. Excellent colour and quality, and the look easily attracted the students! We...
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Education Policy must Give Importance to These Points
The present government is going to formulate a standard education policy as they said. Education is actually in shamble whatever complacency we show. You...
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Education is the right of humans like the right to have proper food or a roof overhead. Article 26 of the 1948 University Declaration...
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Universal Primary Education and Bangladesh
The concept of universal education dates back to 2000 when UNESCO hosted the Dakar summit which was participated in by 180 countries. They committed to the simple but profound goal of achieving universal basic education by 2015. It actually involves entering the school at an appropriate age, progressing through the system, and completing a full cycle. It later became...
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Program for International Student Assessment – PISA
For gaining the 21st century skills students need to put emphasis on Mathematics, Science and English. These can be said as surviving skills as...
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Poverty eradication and holistic development of a country, though different in dimensions, these two are interrelated in a sense. Poverty eradication is one of...
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Virtual Classroom and Distance Learning: Bangladesh Perspective – 1
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World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?
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Focusing on Education: Importance and Necessity
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Decision to Conduct Online Examinations in Public Universities Calls for Appreciation
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This Year’s HSC Results Tell Many Things About Our Educational Arena
Higher Secondary Certificate examination or HSC results came out showing the upward trend raising the usual question of quality in the minds of the people concerned. It is true that the figure of the results is changing because of the factors like rising consciousness of the students, guardians and teachers, spreading the coaching business from city to the village,...
Receiving TESOL President Award
Any kind of recognition to any innovative work works as a guiding force to go forward for any individual and organization. It’s an incentive as well. When it happens in the field of education it brings more pleasure for those who belong to this field. I have been in this line for quite a long time first as a...
HSC Result and Our Politics
The results of the Higher Secondary Examination or HSC result help students determine the future course of study and aim of life. Hence, it attaches much importance. This year 74.30 per cent of students passed the HSC examinations against 78.67 per cent of the previous year. Besides the pass rate, the results also showed a decline in the number...
What Students are Learning? Stop Staging the Theatre of Education
The COVID situation and the theatre of introducing a so-called 'competency-based' curriculum pushed the teaching and learning situation to the lowest rung. In the true sense of the term, the teaching-learning scenario, receiving and giving education evaporated many years back from our classes, educational institutions, and society, with some exceptions occurring in some institutions like missionary and privately run...
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I Never Wanted to be an Educationist
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Some Distinguished Features of Brac University
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Ragging Culture in Bangladeshi Universities
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