A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham Maslow’s famous “Hierarchy of Needs” theory, he attempted to reinterpret Bangladesh’s education system through a similar layered framework of needs. His post was not presented as a formal academic model or a research-based theory. Yet, as I read through it, I found myself deeply struck by its simplicity, clarity, and uncomfortable truth.
Sometimes the most powerful ideas are not those emerging...
In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...
When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...
A dark picture has revealed teacher training colleges when a survey was conducted by the ministry of education. The ministry of education found that...
The present government is going to formulate a standard education policy as they said. Education is actually in shamble whatever complacency we show. You...
Bangladesh possesses importance in many aspects, particularly in the area of primary education, that convey the strength to the way forward. Having the development in economy and infrastructure or getting the significance in Geo-Political reality in the contemporary world, education stands in the background of all sorts of development and provides the intellectual resources.
Education evolves as a movement
On the...
To keep pace with the fast-growing demand for English knowing people establishing English version school along with English medium has gained momentum in the...
A non-governmental organisation (NGO) is formed by private persons or organisations with no participation or representation of the government. In the cases in which...
Information on the growth of income per person across the developing nations reveals that at least one important measure of skills is consistently correlated...
Abstract: The research on marketing of education, the first of its nature in Bangladesh, has been carried out by desk study, documents review, interviews,...
A number of donors and partners for developments have recently put especial attention to help the Bangladesh government in order to improve its technical...
Jahangir Nagar University, the only fully-fledged residential university stresses its campus on the beautiful lap of nature decorated with lakes, green foliage of trees...
Do government teachers’ activities encourage further privatisation of education? Education has yet to overcome its negative aspects, which it has been struggling with for...
The role of education is to build the nation and making linkages with knowledge and empowerment. It is true that education directly influences politics,...
SSC and equivalent examinations started on 15 February, the written tests were completed on 12 March, and the practical examinations continued till 20 March, beginning from 13 March 2024. Today, 12 May, the results have come out, which means that in less than two months’ time, the results have appeared.
Like in previous years, the Prime Minister actually inaugurated the...
With a view to improving the quality of secondary education in Bangladesh, the government has taken different initiatives. Providing training to the teachers is one of the significant mechanisms aiming to develop their creativity and innovation. BRAC is supplementing the government’s efforts in these areas. It’s a matter of great pleasure for all of us that secondary level education...
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...
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...
Khaliduzzaman Alin discusses the evaluation techniques towards uniformity of PhD
The world is advancing so fast and everything is going to be quantified. For example,...
A very recent report regarding the education of private universities was released in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on education ministry meeting which has baffled...
Even during the closure of corona two public universities namely Barishal and Jahangirnagar witness a very turbulent situation. On 16 February an altercation took...
A timely and thought-provoking article appeared in the Daily Star of its September 9 issue under the caption ‘Campus Police’ which received my attention...
BRAC leaves no vital branch of social development untouched. Its intervention in the education scenario originates from pre-primary education to tertiary level. It launched...
GAZI MUSAYAB, FAHMED BIN NEWAZ, KAZI WASIM UZZAMAN and RENESA RAHMAN wrote about Attendance System
Introduction
Attendance Management System is a database system that has been...
A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration...
In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...
When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...
Is storytelling a powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar? Teaching English using isolated grammar has become an established practice in our English teaching...
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be...
Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields...
Our familiarity with Bloom’s Taxonomy may be greater than SOLO Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy organises learning objectives hierarchically from basic recall to creation, while SOLO...
The nation is eagerly awaiting an exciting, people-friendly budget 2026-2027 from the new government that reflects most of their desires. It is expected that...
A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham...
