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Expected education budget 2026-27

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 the new government’s budget 2026-2027 will be placed based on the lessons learned from the previous government’s budgets. Education Budget as a share of the Total Budget and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expenditure on education as a percentage has not shown a positive trend over the previous fiscal years. The expenditure on education as a share of GDP has been less than 2 per cent between FY2016 and FY2026. The revised budget for the education sector as...

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Expected education budget 2026-27

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...

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...

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Translingualism: Languages Incorporating Differences

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Private Educational Institutions Experience Ugly Claws of Politics

The evil politics of the country has left no place untouched. It has stretched its ugly claws to non-government or private educational institutions gathering...

Nationalisation of Education: BNP’s Stance and Promise  

A grand rally was held on 07 October 2025 at Shurawardy Uddayan on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, where teachers gathered with the...

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Philosophical View on Teachers and Teachers in Real Work Place: A Critical Writing in Context of Bangladeshi Primary Education – 2

Reality of government primary school teachers in Bangladesh Teachers play an important role in education process. Competent and effective teachers are an essential requirement to achieve success in education sector. Unfortunately in Bangladesh, the primary education is struggling with ineffective teaching. But before analysing the teaching quality of teachers, we should understand the teachers in Bangladesh. What is their qualification?...

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How Secondary English Teachers Can be Developed into Trainers

It is the new initiative of BRAC to develop trained English teachers into trainers. It is based on the theory of “The mother who...

Rickshaw puller Joynal Teaches Us a Lot

On Saturday the last page of Prothom Alo has brought out a feature on how a rickshaw puller runs a hospital and school. It...

Coronavirus Pandemic Contributes to Reshape the Education of Bangladesh

In response to the decisions made by the state to continue the academic activities of the learners particularly the pre-primary, primary and secondary level...

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All Tiers of Education are Shrouded in Irregularities

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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...

Secondary School Teachers Conduct Classes in Colleges

With a view to addressing the increasing crisis of admission into the intermediate level, the government turned ten government schools into colleges and this...

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...

An Overview of Newly Developed HSC Textbook

The newly developed HSC textbook ‘English for Today’ for classes 11 & 12 has appeared in the market which has been designed highlighting the...

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...

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Secondary School Teachers Conduct Classes in Colleges

With a view to addressing the increasing crisis of admission into the intermediate level, the government turned ten government schools into colleges and this process was started in 2007 as a huge number of students passed the SSC examination that year. Firstly, Dhanmondi Government High School, Motijheel Government Boys’ High School and Sher-e-Banglanagar Boys’ High School introduced intermediate class....

A Study on New Curriculum: Grade Seven Students’ Status in English

Bangladesh has experienced a new curriculum, mostly known as a ‘competency-based’ curriculum, since January 2023. The teachers who teach English say the curriculum and the textbooks based on the spirit of this curriculum have been designed quite differently from the previous ones. One of the most important changes is that students do not have or very little homework, which exacerbates...

Subject-based Teacher in Secondary Schools

Secondary level education is the second important tier of education which experiences some anomalies and negligence from the authorities concerned for a long. Many changes call for monetary involvement whereas many don’t need money but can bring some positive changes in this sector. The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has recently sent a proposal to the Ministry of...

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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What Does Jagannath University Incident Teach Us?

Jagannath University witnessed a sad incident that ensued from section 27/4 of the Jagannath University Act 2005. The Act says that the university will...

I Never Wanted to be an Educationist

Though I never wanted to become an educationist or a curriculum developer in my teenage years, I asked my teacher in 8th grade why...

World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

Mahbub Alam Prodip writes about Bangladeshi University Ranking The ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’, ‘Times Higher Education (THE)’, ‘The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)’ and ‘The...

Private Universities in Bangladesh: Navigation through Odds and Favours

The existence of private universities in Bangladesh is now a visual reality. Our memory dates back to 1992, when our country saw eleven public...

Private University and Higher Education

The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...

Writing a Statement of Purpose

HELALI MORTUZA BHUIYAN wrote about Statement of Purpose 1. Preface This article is all about writing a good Statement of Purpose or SOP. I am assuming...

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Expected education budget 2026-27

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