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DC Conference: Educational issues discussed on the first day

The DC Conference 2026, the first of its kind since the BNP government came to power after the 12 February National Election, is taking place in the capital. It therefore attaches great importance to the government’s direct contact with field-level officials who implement its plans and steps. On the other hand, the DCs and Divisional Commissioners also need to share issues the country is currently facing, such as the outbreak of hums, the cry of the farmers in the haor areas, ongoing SSC examinations, the low quality of education, education without joyful situation, Quami madrasa education and its equivalency to...

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DC Conference: Educational issues discussed on the first day

The DC Conference 2026, the first of its kind since the BNP government came to power after the 12 February National Election, is taking...

Getting tougher in public examinations means taking steps to ensure quality education

The country's SSC and equivalent public examinations will begin on 21 April, the first of its kind since the new government assumed office. The...

A response to the government’s decision to scrap the lottery for admission

There must be no admission test or even a lottery for children up to class three, let alone KG children. The guardians must take...

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Gender-sensitive Education

Now it has crossed the boundary of doubt that investment in education for both boys and girls stands as one of the most important...

Only the Curriculum is Our Problem, and One Teacher, One Tab is the Good Solution?

Our experience shows that whenever a new government takes office, it takes on the task of changing the curriculum, which is a gigantic undertaking,...

How English Version School going on?

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...

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Philosophical View on Teachers and Teachers in Real Work Place: A critical Writing in Context of Bangladeshi Primary Education – 1

Introduction Teaching is one of the fundamental elements in the process of formal education. Effective teaching is often a requirement of the achievement of the educational goals. For this reason educators put lot of concentration on understanding the proper method of teaching. Many philosophers sketched the image of an ideal teacher from their self perspectives. But teachers cannot always be as...

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Barishal and Jahngirnagar Universities see Volatile Situation

Even during the closure of corona two public universities namely Barishal and Jahangirnagar witness a very turbulent situation. On 16 February an altercation took...

Concept of Literacy: Past-Present-Future

United Nations declared 2003-2012 as a United Nations Literacy Decade and the motto for the decade is “Literacy as Freedom”. The freedom to access...

International Literacy Day and the COVID crisis

Today the world observers `International Literacy Day’ with the theme “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond,” especially on the role of educators...

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Application of Innovative Technologies in Teaching-Learning Process: A Mission for Building Knowledge Based Society in Bangladesh

Abstract: Today’s world is shaped by availability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Because global economy is powered by knowledge and technology, fueled by...

Reducing the Number of Reaching Out of School Children

In the second week of July in a donor meeting it was discussed that the government has given an statistics of primary school enrollment...

Battle for Admission into Schools

A timely editorial has appeared in a leading English daily reflecting the problems or battle for admission into schools in the city of Dhaka....

How Far the Draft Education Law 2013 is Inclined to Protect Citizen’s Right to Education

KHANDAKER LUTFUL KHALED wrote about Draft Education Law 2013 National vision of education Education is critical to human development, enlightenment and emancipation. It is a powerful...

The Present Secondary Education Scenario

It is true that the education sector has received significant importance from the government under the able guidance of Nurul Islam Nahid, the minister...

NCTB’s Repeated Failure to Provide Books to the Students Timely!

December is the month when students assess their academic progress and prepare for stepping into the next higher class. The new books for the...

New Ways of Assessment: Good or Bad for Twenty Million Little Children!

Continuous syllabus and assessment changes, as well as experiments on young children, make them guinea pigs. The authorities continue doing so, ignoring the children’s...

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English Teachers’ Classroom Practices in Rural Secondary Schools: An Exploration of the Effect of BRAC Training

RIFAT AFROZE, MD. MAHBUBUL KABIR AND ARIFA RAHMAN wrote about BRAC Training ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effect of the BRAC training programme for English language teachers of rural non-government secondary schools. It examined the change in the teachers in terms of their pedagogic skills, language skills development, knowledge about Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and their attitudes towards this new...

Science Education Declines in the Age of Science

We are living in the age of science and computer. Till today we enjoy the most sophisticated scientific development. When and where its onward march stops are unknown to us. To cope with the situation we need to produce a procession of science graduates and a galaxy of experts in different branches of science. But we see a grim...

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,...

Dropped Out Students in the SSC are Mostly Girls

SSC examination on the short syllabus is going to start on 14 November and end on 23 November. Collecting a certificate by sitting practically for examination retains much significance and pure joy, which our students missed due to Corona for the last two years. What's about the dropped out students? Evaluation is an important part of the teaching-learning process. However,...

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UGC Reveals Poor Performance of Public Universities

Recently the University Grants Commission or UGC has conducted a survey on our five public universities. It has revealed the findings which really tend...

Sad Occurrences at Public Universities

Public universities are gripped with anomalies and saddest incidents imprinting a slur on the highest seats of learning in the country and exercising a...

Ragging Culture in Bangladeshi Universities

The students enrolled in higher educational institutions with the hope of embracing a brighter future and achieving some noble objectives have to face the...

Ranking Higher Educational Institutions

Ranking higher educational institutions such as universities is a crucial task. It entails one’s thinking on how to rank the universities. What should be...

Student Attendance System

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...

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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...

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DC Conference: Educational issues discussed on the first day

The DC Conference 2026, the first of its kind since the BNP government came to power after the 12 February National Election, is taking place in the capital. It therefore attaches great importance to the government’s direct contact with...