Several newspapers have reported that the government has taken a new initiative to employ teachers at the secondary level, providing them with teacher training before joining the job through a special project named the ‘Professionalization for Enhanced Learning Project’.
Currently, teachers usually receive in-service training, which significantly disrupts learning, as most of our institutions experience teacher shortages. Ensuring pre-service training would offer several benefits.
First, teachers will be familiar with the pedagogy and strategies for working with young learners, as well as master the subject and teach it to students. Newspaper reports have highlighted this as a new government initiative, but...
Several newspapers have reported that the government has taken a new initiative to employ teachers at the secondary level, providing them with teacher training...
In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...
It is admirable that the enrolment rate is rising along with gender parity in the primary schools of Bangladesh. Moreover, public expenditure for education...
The Essential Characteristics of Problem-Based Learning
From all the discussions so far we can improvise a very simplified definition of PBL as a process of...
The ignition
In a recent interview, Dr. Manzoor Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, BRAC University, interpreted the education status of some Asian countries which are much more...
National Primary Education Week 2014 was observed in the country which started from March 09 and it was inaugurated by Prime Minister at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. She made several important announcements in her inaugural speech. One was the upgrading of the status of government primary head teachers from grade III to grade II which calls for appreciation from all...
Apprenticeship process was introduced in Bangladesh in the 1850 through an act designed by the British Administration. Given the nature of the 1850's act,...
Textbook scam and crisis has caught the headlines of our newspapers. Strikes, blame game, money making, meetings are regularly held across the country over...
According to UNESCO, the region provides higher education including private higher education to just 3.5 of the college age population, compared with 60 per...
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...
Do government teachers’ activities encourage further privatisation of education? Education has yet to overcome its negative aspects, which it has been struggling with for...
Individualized teaching is probably the most challenging, yet essential, part of the entire teaching-learning responsibilities of a teacher. In every classroom children from different...
The national scene of education in terms of passes percentage in the secondary and higher secondary levels show a rising trend every year. But quality still remains a question. Maybe, the quality also is increasing but not up to the mark. This year the pass percentage of HSC has improved from last year’s 75.08 to 78.67. In 2010 this...
Education builds a nation. It is very important for Individual, Society and State. National development highly depends on Education. Education is the main component to execute the dream of the nation. Education has two general aspects, (1) Philosophical aspect & (2) Structural aspect.' Why we should learn?'-this question is related to the philosophy of education.
If the philosophical position...
The government secondary schools will see Senior Teacher position with the status of first-class gazetted officer that must be a welcome move. The number of government secondary schools had been only 317 for many years in a country of sixteen crore people that expresses stately importance towards this tier of education. However, the non-government teacher associations have been struggling...
Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields without giving a second thought to whether those fields really need the changes the government is planning, ignoring the long-standing, must-be-solved problems of those areas.
That is why the exceptional thoughts sometimes appear as absurd. Some...
Our glorious Dhaka University which produced many scholars, statesmen, diplomats, scientists, educationists and bureaucrats observed its 90th birth anniversary on July 01, 2011. It...
Recently the University Grants Commission or UGC has conducted a survey on our five public universities. It has revealed the findings which really tend...
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...
The birth of the private university in Bangladesh has passed more than two decades. Now their existence is a visual reality with significantly successful...
Several newspapers have reported that the government has taken a new initiative to employ teachers at the secondary level, providing them with teacher training before joining the job through a special project named the ‘Professionalization for Enhanced...
Several newspapers have reported that the government has taken a new initiative to employ teachers at the secondary level, providing them with teacher training...
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...
Several newspapers have reported that the government has taken a new initiative to employ teachers at the secondary level, providing them with teacher training before joining the job through a special project named the ‘Professionalization for Enhanced Learning Project’.
Currently,...
