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...
In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans...
Bangladesh is a densely populated country moving from an agricultural to an industry-based economy, which has been expedited within the recent decade. Is this...
Bangladesh offers free and compulsory primary education to all school-aged children, and the government adopts various steps to make it successful as nobody would be left out-of-school. However, a still considerable number of children have been out-of-school because of dropout or have never been enrolled in school due to poverty that surfaces conflicting points between our plan and reality....
A dark picture has revealed teacher training colleges when a survey was conducted by the ministry of education. The ministry of education found that...
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 private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...
With the ever-increasing pressure to raise performance standards in school, Project-based Learning helps to engage students’ intrinsic motivation to learn and, in turn, increase...
The reign of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman from 1975 to 1981 was a significant period for Bangladesh’s education for several reasons. The Monthly Payment...
Ice-breaking is an activity that is conducted when a group of unknown or semi-known or little-known people gathers in a particular place for receiving...
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...
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,...
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...
It is the new initiative of BRAC to develop trained English teachers into trainers. It is based on the theory of “The mother who gives birth to a child knows best the pain of childbirth”. This initiative has sparked hope and enthusiasm among the rural secondary English teachers. To speak the truth, we have discovered the hidden potentialities among...
The students enrolled in higher educational institutions with the hope of embracing a brighter future and achieving some noble objectives have to face the...
Once famous educationist and the ex-vice chancellor of Jahangirnar University Professor Zillur Rahman Siddique said in a function ‘living in the university campus itself...
The government has planned to establish five more public universities that has sparked a dozen questions whether we need more public universities at this...
The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these 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...
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...
