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 minister for education who has been well known for taking stern action against adopting unfair means in the public examinations during his office as state minister for education some nineteen years back (BNP’s previous period 2001-06) which saw a great success to almost banish unfair means in the exam that he had to do going against the tide the nation experienced then which we think must be a bold and challenging step.
So, the demand...
Whenever we see English questions, whether in public examinations, BCS, or any recruitment test, let alone the internal examinations of educational institutions, we can...
PBL: Learning From the dawn of civilization
The advent of new ideas in society bares the potential of being scrutinized by humanity. Education reform is...
Recently, a new slogan for the fourth industrial revolution got significant to the newspaper, writings and civil society discussions, like a talk show and...
PBL: Learning From the dawn of civilization
The advent of new ideas in society bares the potential of being scrutinized by humanity. Education reform is...
Education is recognized as one of the key elements for building an empowered knowledge-based society to meet the demands and challenges of the 21st Century that is also discussed in the MDG. Deprivation from getting access to education itself is a key element of poverty. In Bangladesh, deprivation among the poor and marginalized in accessing educational facilities is disproportionately...
Women no doubt have started exercising greater influence in almost all the sectors of state affairs such as administration, business, government, politics, teaching, and...
As a regular reader of English newspapers, I have gone through the lengthy thought-provoking and valuable writing of an unknown assistant professor of a...
I often find myself criticising governments worldwide for failing to create opportunities for poor people, especially in the education sector. We certainly should be...
Decentralization goes with the modern administration. The present decision of the government to decentralize the MPO (Monthly Pay Order) system deserves thanks. But this...
It is true that the education sector has received significant importance from the government under the able guidance of Nurul Islam Nahid, the minister...
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...
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...
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,...
The results of the Secondary School Certificate examination came out with the message of a significantly high pass rate and higher grades. And this has become a common picture for the last six years which definitely make us elated as it shows that we are rightly keeping pace with the global jump. Is it the case actually, if we...
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...
Public universities are gripped with anomalies and saddest incidents imprinting a slur on the highest seats of learning in the country and exercising a...
Abstract: Research for this paper, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, has been carried out on quality assurance by questionnaire, interview and observation ...
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...
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...
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 minister for education who has been well known for taking stern action against...
Whenever we see English questions, whether in public examinations, BCS, or any recruitment test, let alone the internal examinations of educational institutions, we can...
Dogme ELT is a communicative approach to language teaching that encourages teaching without published textbooks and emphasises conversational communication among learners and teachers.
It is...
A new government was formed on 17 February under the able leadership of Tarique Rahman, following the thirteenth national election, in which the BNP...
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...
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 minister for education who has been well known for taking stern action against adopting unfair...
